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In 1967, state Rep. Richard Lamm introduced legislation that would make abortion legal beyond cases when the woman's life was at stake. Media outlets also report on abortion news out of Illinois, Minnesota and Tennessee.
Experts believe immigrants and travelers, who have lost their childhood immunity by living in America for some time, are returning to their home countries not expecting to need protection from the disease. Then they come back to the U.S. infected.
Stat talks with Dr. Brian J. Druker and his patients who were some of the first to be shifted away from a scorched-earth treatment of cancer to precision medicine. In other public health news: mapping the brain's neurons, the dangers of nursery products, long-term birth control, genital mutilation and more.
Scott Gottlieb's part in getting Cephalon, a company that makes lollipops for cancer patients in extreme pain, more opioids lends itself to established concerns that the Trump administration's pick to head the Food and Drug Administration is too closely tied to the drug industry. In other news on the opioid epidemic, special schools are helping teens stay sober and the use of painkillers in the middle-aged and elderly is skyrocketing.
The doctors are hoping that in rules expected soon the federal government will ease requirements for small practices to participate in the new Medicare payment options offering higher risk and higher financial reward. Also, some hospitals are asking the federal government to make some bundled-payment programs voluntary.
Critics are mobilizing against the screening and testing requirement because they say it could unfairly stigmatize the poor and complicate an already difficult application process. News outlets also report on Medicaid news from Arkansas and Ohio.
The high court heard arguments as to whether an Alabama death-row inmate was entitled to a psychologist who would be on his side, not a state-appointed one.
Shares for the pharmacy benefits manager dropped sharply following the announcement.
The drugmaker filed a lawsuit against the troubled EpiPen-maker on Monday. In other pharmaceutical news, The Daily Beast investigates the involvement of Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., with an Australian biotech company, a panel of U.S. scientists is questioning the methodology of an Ebola drug trial, Biogen releases the promising results of a drug to help children with a neuromuscular disease, and one California lawmaker has a plan for lowering drug prices.
Despite a renewed push from President Donald Trump to make progress on the Republicans' health care plan, the desire to get a spending bill through may take precedence.
A new study found that taxpayers would end up paying 23 percent more than the potential savings from eliminating the health law's "cost-sharing" subsidies.
Few moderates have said anything about the new measure beyond that they haven't seen the text yet. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump promises his health plan will have premiums "tumbling down" and a new poll finds that most Republican voters still want the Affordable Care Act repealed.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Opinion writers take on various aspects of the current debate surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act and how Republican efforts to repeal and replace it are unfolding.
Media outlets report on news from Colorado, California, Maryland, Missouri, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, Georgia and Alaska.
Low-income residents of Kentucky who gained coverage under the expansion of Medicaid are concerned that the governor's plan for an overhaul could leave them without benefits again. In Connecticut, the Medicaid expansion helped fund services for people when they get out of prison, but that could be threatened by GOP efforts to revamp the health law.
Twenty-eight states prohibit nurse practitioners from prescribing buprenorphine unless they are working in collaboration with a doctor who has a federal license to prescribe it. The problem is, half of all counties in the U.S. do not have a single physician with such a license to prescribe the anti-addiction drug. Meanwhile, 19 attorneys general ask congressional leaders and President Donald Trump to not cut funding that is going toward fighting the opioid crisis.
The consequences of the burnout can range from medical errors and high mortality rates of hospitalized patients to lower medical knowledge and impaired professionalism. In other public health news: cholesterol-lowering drugs, knee replacements, an ad campaign for condoms, the bird flu and more.
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