First Edition: Monday, Aug. 17, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Viewpoints: MAHA And Health Insurers Want To Track You Like A Car; Let’s Hope Our Cyclospora Summer Leads To Change
Editorial writers discuss these public health issues.
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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. Today's selections are on grocery stores in libraries, the opioid crisis, heat deaths, and more.
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Contrary To Expectations, Study Shows Cannabis Linked To Fewer Ectopic Heartbeats
While this new information may lead to new approaches for preventing or treating abnormal heart rhythms, experts caution that the overall health effects of inhaled cannabis may still be a net negative, MedPage Today reported.
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CDC: At Least 740 Hospitalized During Cyclosporiasis Outbreak
The latest numbers from the CDC show that nearly 14,000 cases have been confirmed, with more than 10,000 others awaiting lab confirmation. Plus, more foods have been recalled over salmonella concerns.
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Healthcare Advocacy Group Sues AMA Over Access To Billing Codes
PatientRightsAdvocate.org says it wants to bring transparency to the American Medical Association's billing codes used by Medicare and states to set reimbursement rates for healthcare professionals. They hope to publish the codes online and make them free to the public. The AMA currently charges licensing fees to use the codes.
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Medicaid Funding Uncertainty Could Hinder PACE Expansion
Georgia, Connecticut, and Nevada are among the states offering Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, but operators are worried about Medicaid money. Other state health news is reported from Arkansas, Massachusetts, Texas, and elsewhere.
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HHS Refers Providers For Investigation Over Gender-Affirming Care Billing
In a letter from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., more than 200 hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, and other providers were referred to federal investigators over youth transgender-care billing.
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‘There Is No Good Justification’ To Split MMR Vaccines, Experts Say
President Trump's push to split the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into separate shots would require drugmakers to revive a slate of individual vaccines that have not been widely used in the U.S. for decades. Drugmakers also would have to build manufacturing plants capable of producing millions more vaccine doses, the AP reported.
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First Edition: Friday, Aug. 14, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Trump’s New Vaccine Policy Puts The World At Risk; Can These Treatments Defy Death?
Opinion writers examine these public health topics.
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Research Roundup: The Latest Science, Discoveries, And Breakthroughs
Each week, KFF Health News compiles a selection of health policy studies and briefs.
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Trump-Linked Law Firm Passes On $150M Offer To Represent Migrant Children
The Trump administration had announced plans to award the contract to the Burke Law Group, a Houston-based firm with scant immigration experience, but Burke declined the offer, the AP reported. Meanwhile, the AP also reported that concerns are being raised over ICE's plan to give officers gloves that deliver electric shocks.
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OpenAI Foundation Gives $100M To Advance Hep C Cure Rates
The Common Health Coalition will use the funds toward the Breakthroughs to Follow-Through Initiative with the goal to “at least double” hepatitis C cure rates. Also in the news: invasive mold disease, valley fever, SSRIs in pregnancy, and more.
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Jury Selection Begins In California’s Kids’ Addiction Case Against Meta
Jury selection for the trial moved forward Wednesday, after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco cleared the way for lawsuits to proceed against Meta and other social media companies on Monday. Meta has denied that it violated state laws and sees the cases as a way of policing free speech, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. California and other states are seeking more than $1 trillion in penalties.
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Cyclosporiasis Cases Might Be Slowing As Infection Count Tops 24,000, Data Indicate
The latest CDC data shows only about 2,000 more cases recorded over the last week, whereas the prior week saw more than 22,000 cases recorded, ABC News reported. Meanwhile, the FDA is seeking to reassure Americans that they can feel safe eating fresh produce again, The Hill reported.
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Eli Lilly Battles Black Market Over Experimental Weight-Loss Drug
Eli Lilly is ramping up its fight by filing lawsuits against American businesses that sell its drug retatrutide illegally and asking regulators to step in, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile, doctors born abroad play a significant role in caring for underserved patients, and immigration policies threaten that workforce, MedPage Today reported.
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Trump’s Vaccine Order Puts Spotlight on CDC Director-To-Be Schwartz
President Donald Trump’s call for children to receive fewer disease-preventing immunizations offers Erica Schwartz the chance to back up a statement she made during her confirmation hearing, where she said she “will never betray the science."
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First Edition: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Climate Change Is Making Chronic Illness Worse; Trump’s New Vaccine Order Targets Hesitant Parents
Opinion writers delve into these public health topics.
By khnelysiag