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Californians would be required to participate in the public program and insurance companies would be barred from offering coverage for services already included in the the plan. Gov. Jerry Brown has expressed deep skepticism about how the state would fund the program.
In another pharmaceutical development, the search for a new antibiotic to fight superbugs gets a cash infusion. And, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline also make industry news.
Researchers tally the health cost of international trade for a single year and found that in 2007 alone, about 762,400 people died prematurely as a result of being exposed to pollution that was emitted to make products used somewhere else in the world.
The Baby Box Co.'s product is untested and unregulated, they say. In other public health news: DHA supplements, hepatitis, sepsis, mastectomies, childhood trauma and more.
Other negative health side effects have been associated with loneliness, but the researchers wanted to know if it played a role in more everyday illnesses.
Ohio led the nation in opioid overdose deaths in 2014, and deaths have continued to rise with increased use of heroin and fentanyl. Meanwhile, a study pinpoints the demographic that's seen the sharpest increase in heroin use.
The Trump administration talks, at the same time, of an empathetic treatment model as well as more extreme criminal prosecutions -- approaches that offer contrary messages on how the president plans to deal with the drug crisis sweeping the country.
Advocates say exposure to the chemical compound puts children at an elevated risk for problems in learning, social skills, motor function, and other developmental domains.
President Donald Trump threatened members of the Freedom Caucus over Twitter for their refusal to fall in line. And a key aide is being dispatched to "fix" the problem of pro-Trump groups remaining quiet during the health law fiasco.
Following the Republicans' failure to pass the American Health Care Act, the Affordable Care Act is caught in a strange kind of limbo. "One of the keys to understanding Washington is to think a little bit like a coroner," says consultant Ari Fleischer. "You have to know when something's dead and when something's still kicking, and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference."
Despite the collapse of the Republican health bill and suggestions from the Trump administration that states can have more flexibility in running Medicaid, some holdout states are still hesitant. Also in the news, Arkansas lawmakers vote to keep the Medicaid expansion for another year and a look at how the expansion has helped a couple in Ohio.
Supporters in the Kansas House and Senate are short of a veto-proof majority, but advocates still hope to raise public support to pressure some lawmakers.
The insurance company sells coverage under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand in 14 states and its pull back from the exchanges could be devastating to the health law marketplace.
Meanwhile, a member of the Freedom Caucus said a vote on a bill "that doesn’t bring down premiums and give the American people hope" will lose Republicans the majority.
The payments -- which reimburse insurers for subsidies that lower the cost of deductibles, copayments and coinsurance for those covered by the health law -- have been a long-time target of congressional Republicans.
Vice President Mike Pence had to break a tie in the chamber.
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