First Edition: Feb. 9, 2024
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on mental health, "magic" mushrooms, nursing homes, surrogacy, and more.
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Research Roundup: Covid Vaccine In Pregnancy; Infection Reduction; Insomnia; Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Each week, KFF Health News compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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Viewpoints: Is Importing Canadian Drugs Risky?; Accepting Vaccine Hesitancy Is A Slippery Slope
Editorial writers tackle counterfeit drugs, parental vaccine hesitancy, HIV, and more.
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Public Health Resources Lagging Behind Rising Tuberculosis Wave
Stateline reports on public health experts' warnings that awareness of rising TB is lagging and that state and local health services lack resources to keep up with prevention and control. Meanwhile, the CDC is checking protocols on a cruise ship where more than 100 people had gastrointestinal illnesses.
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Facing Backlash, Ohio Scraps Plans To Limit Gender Care For Adults
Ohio's proposed restrictions would have been the toughest on transition-related care for adults in the country, trans rights advocates said. Separately, a survey shows that transgender Americans have been experiencing economic and health disparities for years.
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FDA Reports Quality Lapses At Indiana Drug Factory That Novo Is Buying
The facility in Bloomington, Indiana, belonged to contract drugmaker Catalent. FDA inspectors found issues including a "pest" on the manufacturing line. Novo is buying Catalent to boost Wegovy production. Also: A report says FDA oversight of foreign firms making U.S. market drugs is weak.
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Another Hospital In Minnesota Ends Baby Deliveries
The Mayo Clinic Health System's New Prague hospital is the latest facility in the state to stop delivering babies. Minnesota Public Radio reports on how midwives are filling the void in birthing services as hospitals move deliveries to larger, centralized hospitals.
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Missouri Republicans Block Abortion Exceptions For Rape, Incest
An effort led by Democratic lawmakers in Missouri had targeted the state's strict anti-abortion laws to allow exemptions for rape or incest. Senate Republicans decided allowing these victims to have abortions wasn't a good idea. Meanwhile, thousands of people attended events to push for an abortion ballot question in the state.
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160,000 More Americans Died Of Covid Than Have Been Counted: Study
A new study says 162,886 excess pandemic-era deaths in the U.S. that were blamed on other reasons, like natural causes, were actually due to covid. This means covid killed more people in the U.S. than had been thought. Also: Scientists find 1 in 4 with covid go on to get long covid symptoms.
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House Passes Bill Barring Use Of QALY Metric In Federal Health Programs
The legislation would ban the use of quality-adjusted life years indexes when valuing medicines for federal health programs such as Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and VA Health Care.
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DEA Won’t Strip Licenses From Large Drug Distributor Over Opioids History
Reversing an earlier order, the Drug Enforcement Administration will allowing Morris & Dickson Co to stay in business. As part of a settlement, the drug distributor agreed to admit wrongdoing over its failure to properly monitor opioid shipments and will forfeit $19 million.
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First Edition: Feb. 8, 2024
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Minorities Are Underrepresented In Staph Antibiotic Trials: Study
Read recent pharmaceutical developments in KFF Health News' Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
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Perspectives: Nothing Can Stop Another Drug Debacle Like Aduhelm
Read recent commentaries about pharmaceutical issues.
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Viewpoints: Hypertension Woefully Undertreated Worldwide; Academic Medicine Can Affect Social Change
Editorial writers discuss hypertension, medical schools, ACA, and more.
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47% Of Transgender Americans Have Considered Moving To Another State
The Hill reports on a new survey that shows exactly how unsettling anti-LGBTQ+ laws are to trans people in the U.S., with nearly half of those polled considering moving elsewhere. Also in the news: Even though Medicaid unwinding is only half done, 10 million people are off the rolls.
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Common Plastics Linked To Tens Of Thousands Of Premature Births
A Lancet Planetary Health study reports plastics are linked to many U.S. preterm births each year, ultimately driving medical bill costs up by billions. Separately, while Latina and other women of color are disproportionately hit by abortion bans, they often aren't part of the legal or media narratives.
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National Nurses Survey Finds Rising Violence Against Staff
Nearly half of nurses said they'd experienced increasing workplace violence, prompting many to think of quitting, a new survey found. Also in health industry news, Amazon is laying off workers in its One Medical and pharmacy divisions; Premier will sell all or part of Contigo Health; and more.
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Federal Court Rejects Free Speech Argument Against Covid Mask-Wearing
A federal appeals court said Monday that refusing to wear a covid mask was not protected as free speech under the First Amendment, in a case where New Jersey residents had challenged mask-wearing rules at school board meetings. Also: Paxlovid costs; rising covid rates; and more.
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