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The groups argue that the requirements of the new state law are medically unnecessary and limit access to safe and legal reproductive services. Meanwhile, another American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit centers around a legal dispute over whether unaccompanied immigrant minors have the right to an abortion in the U.S.
West Virginia officials say Medicaid will begin paying for about a 30-day stay at a residential drug treatment center, as well as methadone treatment and the overdose reversal drug naloxone.
Melania Trump met with staff members and former clients of a clinic that helps children born with addiction. It's unclear how the first lady will be able to help those on the ground fighting the epidemic, though. Meanwhile, Democrats push for a rule to require testing for transportation workers.
“Guns do not make individuals, their families, or homes safer and they result in far more deaths to loved ones than to an intruder intending to cause harm," Dr. Howard Bauchner, editor in chief of the influential Journal of the American Medical Association wrote. In other public health news: obesity rates in children, epidurals, social media and young people, fertility and more.
It's a little-known perk, but lawmakers have their pills delivered directly to the Capitol, so they can just walk down and pick them up. That also means the pharmacist in charge of filling the prescriptions knows a lot more about the leaders of the country than most pharmacists know about their customers.
Funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program expired last month. Although both parties support the program, they are divided about how to pay for it in this bill.
The rules provide moral and religious exemptions to a requirement that employers provide coverage plans that include contraception.
"I feel like I want to continue to follow through on the policies we've put out and it's where I think I can be most effective," said Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, whose name has been floated as a replacement for former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump names an acting secretary for the agency.
Iowa is seeking to move out of the federal marketplace system and set up a state-run exchange instead. State officials say that would help lower premiums, but that could come with higher out-of-pocket costs for consumers. News outlets also report on enrollment issues in Florida and Kansas.
Media outlets examine what's expected in the administration's proposal to allow for association plans, which may give small employers and individuals the ability to secure the same kind of benefits and lower prices that large employers have been able to get.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Media outlets report on news from California, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, Oregon, Minnesota, New Jersey, Texas and North Carolina.
“For my folks, if they wind up losing this … it could make the difference between getting a prescription or having food on the table,” says lawyer Kevin Brophy.
Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker says doing so would send the state back into a recession.
Although the rates have been increasing all across the country, researchers found that rural areas are hit particularly hard. In other public health news: blood pressure, surgery scars, autism and smoke exposure.
Hospitals and others in the health industry are watching the aftermath of the hurricane with worried eyes because Puerto Rico is a hub of manufacturing for pharmaceuticals.
Back in 2007, Purdue settled with individual patients who alleged that it had underplayed the addiction risk of its medications. It was a huge case for lawyer Paul Hanly and a rare win against makers of painkillers. Now, in an entirely different landscape -- one where these companies are becoming the targets of states who want to try to curb the national crisis -- Hanly is gearing up to go again. Meanwhile, PBS looks at how the brain gets addicted to opioids in the first place.
The pharmaceutical industry has fought hard to kill the legislation, and it will likely be a legal target now that the bill is law.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says that the new rules violate the First Amendment by “requiring individuals to bear the burdens of religions to which they do not belong,” as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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