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There's been an explosion of vaping among high school and middle school students across the country, and advocates worry the devices are creating a new generation of kids addicted to nicotine.
"Unless we understand what's going on we cannot prevent it," said Ali Mokdad, professor of global health, epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Over-prescribing has played a major role in the opioid epidemic, and some researchers see the findings in recent studies as a way to help curb the crisis.
Right now, a package of two Evzio auto-injectors has a wholesale price of $3,750 — up from $575 in 2014 when the decades-old version of naloxone won regulatory approval. Advocates urge the White House to invoke a law that would allow the government to use the patented invention without permission. In other news on the crisis: the downside of an addiction drug; DEA's crackdown nets arrests; Justice Department wants in on settlement negotiations with drugmakers; and more.
The HIV information is sent together with users’ GPS data, phone ID, and email. “The HIV status is linked to all the other information. That’s the main issue,” said Antoine Pultier, a researcher at the Norwegian nonprofit SINTEF, which first identified the issue.
Experts say it's important to be critical about what technology is being developed in the health care sphere and not get caught up in the excitement of new innovations.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma says the payment bump reflects higher projections for how much Medicare spending will increase next year.
The deadline to submit a routine application to ensure about $500 million in annual federal funding for expansion is Tuesday. But Gov. Paul LePage (R) has repeatedly said he won't take any steps to expand Medicaid until lawmakers pay for the program under his terms.
Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has signed a measure that allows the Iowa Farm Bureau to collaborate with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield on self-funded “health benefit plans,” which would fall outside the regulation of the health law. Experts say Iowa’s new law is legal and unlikely to draw pushback from the government, potentially creating a model for other states to follow.
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Staff and contractors at MedStar Washington Hospital Center identified as being responsible for clean up told investigators they were not made aware of a leak in a room where several patients were operated on last July. Media outlets report on hospital news out of Massachusetts, Illinois and Maryland, as well.
Along with pleas to protect those in vulnerable positions, some opponents to the requirements also spoke of the hundreds of people they would have to hire to handle all the paperwork the change would bring about.
The powerful antipsychotic Seroquel is prescribed "off label" to millions of Americans for an array of ills such as insomnia, agitation in dementia patients, and PTSD, despite medical experts' warnings that the drug can cause diabetes, heart arrhythmia and movement disorders. In other public health news: cancer, gene editing, saline, depression, smoking and more.
“Until the number of people providing services increase, all you’re doing is creating a backlog,” said Andrew Kessler, who runs the behavioral health policy consulting firm Slingshot Solutions. In other news on the crisis: "Penny-a-pill" legislation faces strong opposition from drugmakers; cooking classes aim to help those in recovery; a study looks at how the epidemic affects black adults; and a look at how to survive addiction.
While some think the push for gun control will fade out of the news like any other story, the teens at the heart of the movement say that won't happen. “They’re looking for us to get bored,” said Rosie Banks, 17, a high school junior. “We’re not going to get bored.”
The science doesn't really back up the ruling on California's law to require a cancer label on coffee. While rodents fed massive amounts of acrylamide do develop cancer, the ones in the study were dosed at rates 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than what humans consume in food.
But advocates and drug companies say that would harm patients and be a radical departure from how Medicaid operates now. The decision could have a nationwide impact as states look at ways to bring down spiking drug costs. Meanwhile, a new study supports the industry's argument that even as list prices rise, net prices are going down with discounts like rebates.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleges Sutter uses a variety of improper strategies, such as gag clauses on prices, “punitively high” out-of-network charges and “all-or-nothing” contract terms that require all of its facilities to be included in insurance networks.
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