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The California Department of Public Health issued a standing order for naloxone in a move geared toward helping parts of the state where there are physician shortages and treatment facilities often struggle to find a doctor who will write a standing order for the medication. News on the crisis comes out of Kansas and Minnesota as well.
A new study finds that regional differences were great, with one abortion clinic for every 55,662 women in the Northeast and one for every 67,883 women in the West. The Midwest had the lowest number of clinics per woman, with one for every 165,886 women, while the ratio in the South was one clinic for every 145,645 women.
The provision would end the state's expansion of Medicaid if the government fails within 12 months to approve a work requirements waiver that includes a time limit on benefits. Medicaid news comes out of Iowa, Connecticut, and D.C., as well.
Private firms are sticking families with bills for tens of thousands of dollars because insurers will only pay the same amount that Medicare will -- and that doesn't cover the businesses expenses.
Modern Healthcare offers a series looking at the threat to rural health care and how millions of patients could be left vulnerable as facilities shutter across the country.
While the cause of the symptoms experienced by U.S. personnel in both China and Cuba remain a medical puzzle, experts caution against spreading information about the incidents before more is known. Meanwhile, Cuba releases more details of its own investigation into the sickness.
The invisible, psychological injuries to the first responders who helped in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the nightclub are another toll of the catastrophe.
Caito Foods, the distributor of the melons, said it was “voluntarily recalling the products out of an abundance of caution” and had stopped producing or distributing the affected products while the investigation is underway.
The technology exists to create designer babies, but few have used it beyond averting certain diseases. In other public health news: medical devices that could be powered by the human body; physician-assisted suicide; Ebola; stress and high-achieving kids; heart valves; concussions; virtual reality and pain; and more.
About half the children who died were previously healthy. They didn't have a diagnosed health condition that might have made them more vulnerable to the flu, the CDC said.
The study on the health benefits of daily, moderate drinking garnered a lot of attention after it was reported government scientists courted the alcohol industry to help fund it.
Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain's deaths came just days before the CDC released startling statistics about the rate of suicide in the country. Experts are left trying to figure out what has gone wrong.
The Justice Department's announcement that it won't defend the health law provision that protects people with pre-existing conditions hands a potentially powerful political weapon to the Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. Meanwhile, media outlets take a look at how the decision will affect the marketplace, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra vows to redouble his energies defending the law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers look at the rising rate of suicides and other health issues.
Opinion writers focus on physician-assisted suicides.
Editorial pages look at these and other health policies.
Media outlets report on news out of Georgia, California, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts and Florida.
One of the difficulties when tackling the issue is that PTSD in first responders can be cumulative over a career of triggering incidents, rather than from one large event. Right now, legislation exists to try to help the personnel, but it has its limitations.
There's been recent pressure on drugmakers to provide the contraception over the counter, and the physicians may be the latest to join in the movement. In other pharmaceutical news, another drugmaker has agreed to pay a penalty over its relationship with patient charities.
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