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U.S. Surgeon General Calls For Aggressive Plans To Fight Youth Vaping In Rare Advisory
As e-cigarrettes become more popular among teens and worries rise about a new generation that could become hooked on nicotine, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams laid out strategies to combat the crisis and took aim at Juul, which takes in more than 70 percent of sales. In other news on vaping, addiction specialists’ phones are ringing.
HHS decided to drop the requirement that everyone in a sponsor’s household be fingerprinted and receive an extensive criminal background check. The Trump administration’s decision comes at a time of increased focus on the health and welfare of migrant children in U.S. custody following the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl.
The report was issued by the Trump administration’s federal school safety commission, which was formed in response to the Parkland, Fla. school shooting and is led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The panel also recommends that schools and communities examine ways to temporarily seize firearms from people who appear mentally disturbed, though it emphasized that such efforts should be carried out without affecting “Second Amendment liberties.”
GSK will hold a 68 percent stake and Pfizer the remaining 32 percent of the new joint venture, which will be the world’s largest over-the-counter medicines business. The move will represent a breakup of GSK, which currently generates around a quarter of its revenue from such consumer products, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Millions Of Americans Have Been Benefiting From The Health Law For Years–They Just Might Not Know It
Consumer protections were put in place through the Affordable Care Act even for people who don’t buy coverage on the exchanges. Now a federal judge’s ruling invalidating the law might jeopardize those popular provisions that Americans might not even realize are part of the ACA. Meanwhile, less than a week after that decision, the case is back in court, this time in front of a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama. And, the legal uncertainty is complicating Medicaid expansion politics.
Judge Richard Leon had previously voiced frustration over views that his role in approving the merger is simply a rubber stamp. Leon has written that he was “less convinced” than the government that asset sales made by Aetna would resolve antitrust concerns raised by the deal.
For Years, Patients Had Been Receiving This Drug For Free. Now It Has A $375,000 Price Tag.
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical pricing.
Perspectives: In Our Quest To Lower Drug Costs, We Have To Keep The Patients In Mind
Editorial pages focus on these health care topics and others.
First Edition: December 19, 2018
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on these health care issues and others.
Opinion writers weigh in on issues surrounding the future of the Health Law.
Media outlets report on news from Minnesota, California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Nebraska and Kansas.
“I think there’s great potential to develop therapeutics out of human milks, simply because they’ve been battle-tested for quite some time,” said Lars Bode, director of the Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence at the University of California, San Diego. Other public health news focuses on diet trends, gene-edited steaks, and a new “black-lung” epidemic.
Obesity, suicide rates and the opioid crisis were all rising in West Virginia before they became more widespread. Could the state offer a model for improving health overall?
Melissa A. Bright, the lead author of the study, said the idea for the research arose from the personal accounts of pediatricians and teachers who saw a pattern of abuse shortly after report cards were released. In other children’s health news: e-cigarettes, helicopter parenting, day care, vaccines and social media.
Abortion Battles Expected To Heat Up In 2019: Get A Primer On Emerging Scenarios
Experts representing many viewpoints update reporters on the changes taking place. News on women’s health issues comes from Delaware, also.
Care At Veterans Hospitals Is Just As Good Or Better As Local Private Hospitals, New Study Reports
“Our findings suggest that, despite some recent negative reports, the VA generally provides truly excellent care,” said William Weeks, co-author of the study. In other news on veterans health, caregivers are losing government stipends without warnings.
Harm-reduction advocates have come up with a strategy to circumnavigate laws that would impede them from helping people addicted to opioids use the drugs more safely: setting the organization up as a church.
The resolutions were geared toward protecting women and girls from violence, sexual harassment and early or forced marriage. But the Trump administration argued that the phrase “sexual and reproductive health” has come to be associated with abortion. Other international news focuses on TB tests, vaccines and Ebola.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Tuesday plan to visit the New Mexico patrol station where Jakelin Caal and her father were taken into custody on Dec. 7 to learn more about why the little girl died the next day. But the Department of Homeland Security says the majority of agents involved in the girl’s detention were union members and, as such, their duties do not include speaking to members of Congress.
