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Top Appropriations Committee Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said the Zika issue is “in play” for a vote at the panel's Thursday hearing. In other Zika news, a Los Angeles Times reporter takes readers to the frontline of the outbreak in Brazil, and Seattle experts talk about just how severe the birth defects caused by the virus are.
Wednesday's Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives hearing on the issue devolved into the two sides arguing whether the evidence was ground breaking or even valid.
Rising doctors learn new skills in dealing with terminally ill patients and their families. Meanwhile, The Associated Press offers the key things to know for doctor-patient conversations on critical care options.
This week's expected release of the latest star ratings by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is postponed until July following congressional and industry questions about the methodology.
UnitedHealth is pulling out of all but a few Obamacare markets, Cigna is heading in the opposite direction with plans to expand, and Anthem is pursing a collaborative approach to working with hospitals. The changes show a fluid marketplace as companies race to find the best way to cut costs and improve care.
The legislation now goes to the House. Opponents warn that Gov. Asa Hutchinson's controversial strategy for the bill could invoke lawsuits. Meanwhile, in Kansas, the hospitals and others are frustrated by the lack of progress for a bill to expand the program that provides health coverage to low-income residents.
New research shows that many poor Americans' financial woes have been eased by the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, but experts are unable to show if it has made low-income people any healthier.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions from around the country.
News outlets report on health issues in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The funding, which helps hospitals cover uncompensated care for patients without insurance, is supposed to be reduced under the health law because Medicaid expansion would cover many of those patients. But Texas did not expand its Medicaid program. Also, a look at how the Labor Department's new overtime rule is affecting health care providers, and North Carolina officials seek residents' views on changes to Medicaid there.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette could file charges against as many as four people in connection with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Flint.
There has long been competition in the cancer community for funds and attention, but now that the nation's focus has been directed to the cause, the fight to not be left out has intensified.
The Food and Drug Administration's Mitch Zeller, director of the agency's tobacco program, says smokeless tobacco is culturally ingrained in rural areas as a rite of passage, and that many of those young people don't fully understand the health effects of the habit.
Marijuana advocates have turned their attention to the fairly liberal enclave of northeastern states, but the region has been particularly hard hit by the opioid crisis making residents and lawmakers skittish on the topic. Meanwhile, Maine regulators are considering marijuana as an alternative to prescription pain killers, and a Minnesota senator is trying to increase access to naloxone, an anti-overdose drug.
Recent reports show an increase in suicides, overdoses and unintentional poisonings -- which is mainly alcohol and drug poisoning -- but researchers say they need more data in years to come to determine if the drop is significant.
In other pharmaceutical news, a health plan shifts its hepatitis C stance amid outcry that the expensive drug is being covered only when the disease becomes life-threatening, Express Scripts files off a volley of its own in Anthem contract dispute, and the Food and Drug Administration's new chief says the agency shouldn't distance itself too far from the industry it regulates.
Meanwhile, two Wisconsin insurers begin a partnership.
At worst, if investigators find evidence of hype that crosses the line with the blood-testing startup, its executives could face jail time. Meanwhile, Theranos board member David Boies says he has confidence in CEO Elizabeth Holmes following news of investigations into the company.
The wide-ranging proposed rule for hospital payments seeks to mute industry criticism of how federal officials handle reimbursements and classifications for inpatients, as well as overpayments and bundled services.
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