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A decade ago, city officials realized they had to take action, and they turned the numbers around. Stateline looks at how they did it. In other public health news: a breakthrough on cancer, mental illness, female homicide victims, antibiotics and birth defects, heart health and more.
The online forum does not allow users to solicit illegal substances, but those seeking opioids find ways to get around those rules. On the other hand, the forums help some form a community to help get them through the difficult process of getting and staying sober.
Planned Parenthood and other groups are suing the state over its ban on a second-trimester procedure. Also in Texas, state lawmakers consider further abortion regulations. Elsewhere, women's reproductive health issues draw headlines in Ohio and Washington state.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it wants to design a payment or service delivery model to improve health care quality and access for Medicare, Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program beneficiaries who need behavioral health treatment.
Media outlets take a look at what bipartisan efforts might entail.
Even those who have been strongly opposed to the Affordable Care Act in the past are now speaking out in favor of keeping it. “Now that you’ve insured an additional 20 million people, you can’t just take the insurance away from these people,” says one Obamacare opponent. “It’s just not the right thing to do.”
Verma is the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and a close ally of Vice President Mike Pence after helping him revamp Indiana's Medicaid program. She is frequently on Capitol Hill to meet with wavering lawmakers. News outlets also look at Medicaid provisions in the Senate legislation and the effects on states.
The administration has already slashed advertising dollars, cut the enrollment window in half, and regularly pumps out anti-Obamacare videos and graphics — actions sure to reduce the number of people who sign up. And that's just the start of what officials can do.
The numbers projected by the Congressional Budget Office -- such as that 22 million Americans will lose coverage under the plan -- haven't changed much since June. But many say that without including the amendment that would allow insurers to sell cheaper plans, it doesn't capture the full effects of the legislation.
Leadership is pushing for a vote on some form of health care legislation next Tuesday. Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was just diagnosed with brain cancer, tells his sparring partners on the Hill that he won't be gone for long.
Confusion reigns supreme on Capitol Hill as leadership continues to push for a vote next week.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers offer their thoughts on a range of public health issues.
Opinion writers examine how repealing Obamacare would play out in their states and towns.
Editorial writers offer a range of views on how the push to replace the Affordable Care Act reached its current state of collapse and what it means going forward.
Each week, KHN finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Media outlets offer coverage out of New York, Kentucky, California, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida.
Gov. Eric Greitens' order to create a registry in Missouri -- the last state to have one -- does not allow doctors to see if a patient has already been prescribed an opioid. Some lawmakers say more legislative action is needed. In other news on the national drug epidemic, Ohio's board on workers' compensation wants fewer opioids prescribed for back pain. And a Kansas City doctor is under investigation for prescriber kickbacks and insurer fraud.
And other public health stories from today's news cover depression, obesity and substance abuse driving up death rates, weight loss, AIDS and the world's youngest double hand-transplant recipient.
A $20 million study will try to figure out if "life hacks" -- like more exercise -- can have an effect on protecting from dementia.
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