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The state's supreme court will rule whether the Kansas Constitution includes a right to abortion. Ahead of the ruling, Gov. Jeff Colyer wants lawmakers to consider amending the constitution to guarantee protection of laws restricting the procedure. Outlets report on news from Iowa and Florida, as well.
Researchers find links between the brain activity of people with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and alcoholism. In other public health news: sexual harassment, pain management, prostate cancer, modified mosquitoes and hysterectomies.
Specialist Jessica Hulsey Nickel through her advocacy group, the Addiction Policy Forum, has accepted funding from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The decision to take the money is roiling the anti-addiction world. Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks tough on fighting the opioid crisis and investors want more information on wholesaler AmerisourceBergen's roll in the epidemic.
“For several decades now, we have not sought to develop the tools we need to fight the flu,” said Olga Jonas, a senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. “The tax we pay for this folly is as inexorable as it is enormous.” Pharmaceutical companies stand to make quite a fortune off of any medicine they develop to treat the flu.
The company also said it will invest in technology that can help it track prescription drug use or monitor data like blood tests to determine if a patient's health or a condition grows worse.
President Donald Trump is also proposing to expand Medicare's "catastrophic" drug benefit so that many seniors with very high costs would not face copayments.
States that run their own exchanges tend to want them to succeed so they invest time and energy into getting people to sign up. Meanwhile, the Trump administration approached the enrollment period as if the health law has failed. The enrollment numbers from the year reflect those different mentalities.
In the early hours of Friday morning the House passed a spending deal to very quickly reverse a government shutdown that was triggered at midnight. The bill includes many of the Democrats' top health care priorities, but they had to compromise in some places as well.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers highlight these health issues and others.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Media outlets report on news from New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Kansas, Florida, California, Arizona and Ohio.
When Silvia Lesama-Santos could not produce documents to show she was in the country legally she was denied a transplant through the Oregon Health and Science University. The decision immediately received backlash as being “cruel and inhumane," leading to the facility to change its policy.
Getting onto the crew of medical personnel that care for the Olympic athletes isn't easy, nor is it paid. But for the doctors, getting a taste of Olympic glory, even if it's just vicarious, is worth it.
Researchers study how people react to a large political shift, and whether they exhibit psychical symptoms of depression. In other public health news: the human genome, suicide, bacteria in hospitals, breast cancer and dementia.
“The trick with the flu is that it happens very quickly,” said Dr. Flor M. Munoz. “You have to be really paying attention. Things can progress within 48 hours or so.” Media outlets report on flu news out of Texas, Florida and Wisconsin, as well.
The Government Accountability Office recommends more federal guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services on what states and hospitals should do when it comes to infants affected by the opioid crisis, but the agency says it's doing enough. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump in recent speeches seems to be focusing on law enforcement over treatment to curb epidemic.
While Mississippi's House recently passed the strictest bill on record, banning abortions more than 15 months after contraception, other states eye limits for certain fetal conditions. Meanwhile, former Planned Parenthood board member Anna Quindlen is tagged to lead the search to replace Cecile Richards.
The insurer's revenue, driven largely by Medicare Advantage premiums, grew 3.8 percent to $10.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The Trump administration is encouraging states to pursue such requirements, though critics of a work mandate say most adults on Medicaid already work or are too disabled or sick to do so.
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