Parsing Policies: Choose Politicians Who Want To Keep Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions
Opinion pages express views on various aspects of the health law.
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Longer Looks: Miscarrying In Detention; The Obamacare Wars; And An Evangelical Minister’s Change Of Heart
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
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State Highlights: Failure To Meet Standards Might Lead To Closure Of New York Organ Collecting Agency; Texans Skipping Needed Health Care Due To Costs
Media outlets report on news from New York, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Delaware, California, Florida and New Hampshire.
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Creating A Safety Plan For Patients Who End Up In Hospital For Suicide Attempt Can Have ‘Phenomenal’ Results
The small step has proven to be simple yet effective at a time when patients are at their most vulnerable for another attempt. In other public health news: high blood pressure, diets, positive people, mysterious attacks, anti-aging drugs, and more.
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New, Faster Method Of Gene Editing Allows Scientists To Turn T Cells Into ‘Living Cancer Drugs’
“We're living in an amazing moment in cancer immunotherapies,” said microbiologist Alexander Marson, co-author of the study that appears in Nature. In other news on cancer research, "re-homing" cells are found to improve survival in mice.
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Despite U.S. Attempts To Water Down Global Breast-Feeding Resolution, States Are Actually Making Strides To Protect It
Recent laws have now made it legal to breastfeed in public in all 50 states, while others have been passed to strengthen workplace protections for nursing mothers.
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Distributors Funneled Equivalent Of About 260 Opioid Pills For Every Person Into Missouri During 5-Year Period
The findings come from a congressional investigation into drug distributors and their potential failure to report suspicious prescription activity. The report, in particular, focused on the disparity between what AmerisourceBergen and McKesson flagged. The two distributors shipped nearly identical volumes of opioids to Missouri, but the number of suspicious orders each company reported were nowhere close: 224 from AmerisourceBergen and 16,714 from McKesson.
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Millions In Funding For Gun Violence Research Rejected By Republican Appropriators
The lawmakers argued that the CDC is already free to study firearm injuries and that the language would risk further politicizing the spending bill. News on health savings accounts and drugged driving also comes out of Capitol Hill.
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Under Pressure, Trump Administration Expected To Streamline Process Of Reuniting Separate Families
To speed up the reunions, the government will no longer insist on fingerprinting all adults in a household where a child will live, or require home visits by a social worker. Meanwhile, tech issues aren't helping the problems. And lawmakers' tarrying at a House Appropriations Committee highlights just how hard it will be to pass immigration measures in this Congress.
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Health Care A Talking Point In Democrats’ Kavanaugh Strategy. But So Are Unions And Guns And LGBTQ Rights And …
Where as the GOP has picked one message to focus on for the Supreme Court nomination battle -- Brett Kavanaugh's credentials -- Democrats are being pulled in a lot of different directions. “We have a long history of making simple arguments overly complicated, and we have a long history of thinking that we need to compartmentalize our messages for different groups,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “We need to get over both of those addictions if we are going to defeat Brett Kavanaugh.”
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Average Consumer Unlikely To Get Any Benefit From Pfizer’s Decision To Roll Back Steep Drug Increases
The company won glowing praise from the White House after it decided to delay its price hikes, but experts say the move is not going to make a big difference to any of the players involved -- including the consumers. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats want more information on the deal between Pfizer and President Donald Trump. And, while the president had success with one company doesn't mean the rest aren't going ahead and raising their prices.
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Medical Tourism Is A $68 Billion A Year Industry, And More And More Startups Want In
Tech companies are looking to emulate Airbnb or Hotels.com, but for people looking for medical services in a different country. In other industry news: cost control has become a top priority for health system executives, health care acquisitions are proving too expensive for private equity firms, and Amazon wants to nudge even further into the health care landscape.
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Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Candidate’s Promise To Support Medicaid Expansion Nets Him Doctors’ Endorsement
Attorney General Mike DeWine said he wanted to include a reasonable work requirement for the program, as well as wellness incentives, but that he favors maintaining the expansion. Medicaid news comes out of Texas, Kansas and California as well.
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First Edition: July 12, 2018
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Stop Harming Development Of Children, Reunite Them With Their Parents; Breast-Feeding Saves Lives, So Why Cripple It?
Editorial pages focus on these and other health issues.
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Parsing Policy: Just More Political Fury About Alleged Health Law Sabotage; More Americans Will Be Priced Out Of Health Care
Opinion writers express views about the Trump administration's changes to the health law.
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Different Takes: Yes, Roe V. Wade Will Likely Be Overturned; In The Long Run, The Abortion Rights Movement Will Prevail
Opinion pages focus on the impact the new makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court will have on abortion.
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Perspectives: Administration’s Proposition On 340B Drug Program Is Equivalent Of An Own-Goal In Soccer
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
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Why Cities Even In The Same State Can Have Wildly Different Drug Prices
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical pricing.
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State Highlights: Thousands Of New Yorkers Languishing On Organ Waiting Lists; Hate Crimes Continue To Increase In California
Media outlets report on news from New York, California, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts, Kansas, Tennessee and Washington.
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