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The military branch has lost 24 of its own to suicide in just the first quarter of this year, Pentagon data show. Other military news is on retirement and disability benefits, death benefits for family members of ROTC cadets, and a mother's plea.
In a letter to a group hoping to amend the state Constitution to allow the procedure up to 18 weeks of pregnancy, the state said the "petition is insufficient on its face for failure to obtain the required 90,704 signatures." Arizona, Florida, and the U.S. Senate also are in the news.
A proposed CMS rule would see doctors taking a 2.9% Medicare pay cut next year. The AMA and other medical societies have sharply criticized the suggestion. Meanwhile, CMS also proposed to raise outpatient hospitals reimbursements 2.6% next year.
A person familiar with the investigation who asked not to be named said the complaint is still being drafted but could be filed this month, the Los Angeles Times reported. In other pharmaceutical news: the price of Ozempic, updates on the Abbott trial, tanning pills, and more.
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Editorial writers tackle AI's role in aiding diagnoses, the overdose crisis and the anti-abortion movement.
A new report says a decade's worth of indirect costs from heat waves, such as lost productivity and health care for heat-related injuries, totaled more than $7.7 billion in California. Separately, the Sacramento Bee reports on how California police are spending $50 million on wellness care.
At the end of May, the 54-year-old New Jersey woman had to have the organ removed after just 47 days because it was damaged by inadequate blood flow from a heart pump she'd received before the genetically modified pig kidney. Also in the news: a larynx transplant, acupuncture, and more.
The Rough Rider High-Value Network is made up of 23 critical access hospitals in the state and aims to improve treatment and coordinate care, Modern Healthcare reported. A similar collaboration recently launched in rural Minnesota.
Public health officials, hoping to get a bigger picture of the spread of the spread of the H5N1 virus, think anonymous testing might encourage fearful farmers, Axios reports. Covid, plague, measles, and Jamestown Canyon virus are also in the news.
The FDA has learned that a research company in India falsified the data used in key studies to gain approval of their medications, which include the generic versions of Viagra and Lipitor, Bloomberg reported. The findings could have major implications about whether the drugs are safe to take and whether insurers will retroactively decide not to cover them.
The American Medical Association annual survey has good news for the medical industry in the form of lower stats for physicians reporting at least one burnout symptom. The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, covers LGBTQ+ "medical refugees" and health care workers fighting for trans rights.
Provisions tacked onto the policy bill include limitations on the military paying for surgery for trans troops and also on how military members' trans children can access gender care. Separately, the VA is in the news for dropping mandatory overtime for claims processors and a hack attack.
Research from the New York Federal Reserve and Georgetown University shows that a person's credit score, on average, starts to fall in the five years ahead of a dementia diagnosis, CBS News reported.
The agency's sharp criticism of these drug middlemen has not led to lawsuits or other actions, but it might provide Congress and states with incentive to amp up regulations.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers tackle abortion, gender identity, non-profit hospitals, and more.
The discovery could form part of a tool for diagnosis, researchers say. Meanwhile, Apple's smart Watch is increasingly being recommended by physicians to patients to help manage and monitor their health conditions. A frozen chicken recall due to listeria risk is also in the news.
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