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News outlets report on health issues in Connecticut, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Illinois.
The increased coverage would mean that all pregnant women and young people who used Flint’s water would be eligible for help.
In other state legislative news, the House passes certificate-of-need measures in Virginia, nursing home staff training is debated in Iowa and a Kentucky lawmaker advances a proposal regarding Viagra.
Meanwhile, a bill to provide oversight to the program passes an Iowa Senate committee, and a judge rules on a company that was ejected from the plan.
Patients face unexpected charges usually because of large payment disagreements between insurance companies and physicians, and the president's plan would remove patients from the equation completely. In other news, turmoil awaits as Congress moves forward with its own budget plans.
Other states and the federal Department of Justice are still reviewing the details of the sale. Also in the news, Express Scripts is giving close scrutiny to Valeant prescriptions and the latest on Theranos.
Although editing genes could lead to cures for disease such as cystic fibrosis, groups on both sides of the abortion rights issue are wary about the technique -- but for different reasons. In other news, a House committee has subpoenaed more than 30 organizations in its investigation into fetal tissue donation.
Volunteer-based events allow patients to see a doctor or dentist — even if it’s only for a day. Meanwhile, news outlets report on more public health stories on employee weight loss incentives, genetic testing, growing income-based health care disparities, palliative care and heartburn treatment risks.
The mystery surrounding the virus has impeded efforts of world health officials. In other Zika news, Venezuela is hit hard by an outbreak, the virus sparks a pharmaceutical gold rush, WHO says a Zika test is only weeks away, and Catholic leaders aren't changing their opinion on contraception and abortion.
The request is part of an expansive project to shine a spotlight on the type of cancer that activists say has not been studied enough. Meanwhile, cancer researchers are flocking to an Ohio database which holds detailed information on cancer patients from around the country, and a new questionnaire might help determine if cancer patients are feeling extreme financial stress from their treatments.
Reporters from Kaiser Health News and the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism spent much of the fall in and around Sandtown-Winchester, a Baltimore neighborhood where violence flared last year after Freddie Gray was fatally injured in police custody. Residents say they have little more confidence in the medical system intended to heal them than in the criminal justice system intended to protect them.
The trend bucks experts who predicted that the private plans would be gutted by the health law measure that cut payments to the private insurance programs. In other Obamacare news, 2016 sign-ups fall short of estimates made in 2010 and delayed tax forms are confusing consumers.
The Supreme Court is set to hear several health care cases, including ones on abortion, insurers, and the health care law. If the court is split 4-4, the decision of the lower court is upheld.
At the contentious Republican debate on Saturday night, Gov. John Kasich defended his Medicaid expansion, which is a common theme for his campaign. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders' health care plan -- the cost of which left-leaning economists are questioning -- would lead to consumers having to give up their insurance.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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News outlets report on health issues Wisconsin, Kansas, Kentucky, California, Ohio, Nebraska, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Montana.
In more state hospital news, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis will test patient care in its new, 21-bed neurological wing; and the recently installed New Carolinas CEO Eugene "Gene" Woods offers his thoughts on the future of health care.
The measure, however, is not expected to get any traction in the Iowa House.
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