First Edition: June 25, 2018
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Viewpoints: Small Businesses Make Huge Gains On Health Care; Puerto Rico Deserves A Better Response
Opinion writers look at changes impacting the health law and other health issues.
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Perspectives: National Undertaking Needed To Fight Depression, Focus On Mental Health Issues
Editorial pages focus on mental health issues and the problems they pose for the nation.
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Research Roundup: ACA Enrollment; Anxiety And Autoimmune Disorders
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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State Highlights: Missouri Hospital Uses Lessons From Tornado To Rebuild Safer Facility; Passengers At Detroit Airport Exposed To Measles
Media outlets report on news from Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Florida, California and Connecticut.
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New Tool Analyzes How Prepared World Is For An Epidemic. Spoiler Alert: It’s Not.
The new website aims to help public officials recognize where vulnerabilities exist. In other public health news: heart research, predicting falls, lead paint, addiction, obesity and more.
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Another Diplomat Evacuated From Cuba With Mysterious Illness, And Officials Still Don’t Know What’s Going On
The affected personnel have exhibited several health problems that resemble those caused by mild brain trauma such as a concussion, including sharp ear pain, dull headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, disorientation, nausea and extreme fatigue.
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Police Killings Of Unarmed Black Americans Damage Mental Health In African-American Neighborhoods, Study Finds
While other studies have focused on the adverse affects of black killings, the Lancet study researchers aimed for a better sense of how police violence is felt on a population level months before and after a shooting.
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Cigna To Step Into War Against Opioid Epidemic
The health insurer plans to use predictive analytics to identify customers who are at the highest risk for an opioid overdose and develop partnerships in those areas to help combat the crisis. In other news: the government pulls funding for a pain relief training; a lobbying blitz has been launched on Capitol Hill as lawmakers vote on opioid measures; and more.
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Maine’s Highest Court Gives Governor Breathing Room, Sets Arguments Over Expansion For Mid-July
Medicaid expansion is supposed to take effect July 2, but the law is on hold until oral arguments in a lawsuit can be held in later in the month. Meanwhile, the state's legislature has approved a bill directing up to $54.5 million in surplus funds and tobacco settlement money for expansion.
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Potential Double-Digit Rate Hikes For Health Law Plans Are Dark Clouds Over GOP Candidates
Polling consistently shows that more voters will blame Republicans for the pain in their wallets if the predicted hikes come to pass.
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FDA Withdraws Guidance On Biosimilars, Conceding A Different Approach Is Needed To Get Them To Market
“Biosimilars foster competition and can lower the cost of biologic treatments for patients,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. “Yet the market for these products is not advancing as quickly as I hoped.”
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Trump Wants To Move All Public-Assistance Programs Under HHS And Rename It Health and Public Welfare Department
Critics are concerned that adding "welfare" into the agency's name brings with it a negative connotation. But the shake-up is unlikely to happen, and is more an insight into the direction in which the White House wants to move policy.
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Don’t Get Distracted By High Drug Costs, It’s Surgery That’s Driving Health Spending, Gawande Says
Dr. Atul Gawande will be heading up the health care initiative formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase that's geared toward starving the "tapeworm on the American economy." While many people's attention is focused on skyrocketing drug prices, Gawande says that is just 10 percent” of total U.S. healthcare spending.
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Migrant Children Must Be Reunited With Parents Immediately, Mental Health Experts Say
Although President Donald Trump ended his family separation policy, there's no plans to address the children that have already been taken from their parents. Some advocates have suggested that public genetic testing sites could aid in the process of reuniting families. Meanwhile, there's profit to be made off the health care needs of those held at the border. And chaos reigns supreme even after the president's executive order.
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Amid Years Of Dashed Hopes Over Alzheimer’s Breakthroughs, Study Linking Common Virus To Disease Fans Hope
A new study suggests that certain viruses could kick-start an immune response that might increase the accumulation of amyloid, a protein in human brains which clumps into the telltale plaques of Alzheimer’s. Scientists are being very cautious to warn that this might not prove anything, but it's one of the few developments the field has seen in decades.
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First Edition: June 22, 2018
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Tax Law Changes Are Already Undermining Health Law, Causing Prices To Jump
Editorial pages focus on changes impacting the health law and other health care issues.
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Perspectives: Trump Needs To Take More Steps To Bring An End To Inhumane Treatment Of Immigrant Children
Opinion writers express views about the impact of the administration's zero-tolerance policy on children's health.
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Longer Looks: The Trauma Of Family Separation; Nutrition Science; And Hiding Mental Illness
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
By khnshefalil