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Stressing that the FDA is still investigating, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones explained that the applesauce pouches linked to scores of sick children may have been intentionally contaminated. Also in the news: Product recalls more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.
White House officials announced Tuesday that 28 health care companies — including CVS, Oscar, Curai, Devoted Health, Duke Health, Emory Healthcare, and WellSpan Health — are joining the Biden administration's voluntary commitments that aim for safer development of artificial intelligence.
President Joe Biden touted savings that Medicare beneficiaries are expected to see next year on some prescriptions drugs. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, starting Jan. 1 pharmaceutical companies can be penalized for raising prices faster than inflation.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law that prohibits credit agencies from collecting information about medical debt and using it in credit reports. Other state health news relates to transgender health, kratom, reproductive health, and other issues.
The discovery suggests that a single hormone — GDF15 — plays a role in causing hyperemesis gravidum, meaning a possible route to new treatments has been uncovered. Also in the news: more lead poisoning from applesauce pouches; the Air Force embraces smartwatches for health; and more.
New Gallup data show more Americans had diabetes diagnoses, and other health issues, and also lower confidence than compared to before the pandemic. Meanwhile, a new report from actuary firm Milliman shows about 2 in 3 Americans with mental health conditions couldn't access treatment.
So far this year, America’s poison control centers reported nearly 3,000 calls involving semaglutide — the medication sold as Ozempic and Wegovy. Callers report symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and constipation and some have been hospitalized for accidental overdoses.
A WHO technical advisory group suggested, in the light of current genetic changes in the covid virus, vaccination programs should stay with the current monovalent covid shot that targets the XBB.1.5 variant. Separately, Pfizer's share price fell after it said fewer covid shots would be sold next year.
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Vendors that want to certify their AI-enabled health IT products through HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology now must disclose how their algorithm was designed, developed, and trained.
After a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier suggested that access to mifepristone should be curbed, despite the FDA's regulations for the pill, the Biden administration asked the justices to intervene. Mifepristone combined with misoprostol is currently the most common medicated abortion protocol in the U.S.
The "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which would allow the National School Lunch Program to serve whole milk, passed 330-99 in the House on Wednesday. In 2012, then-First Lady Michelle Obama moved to only allow low-fat variations to be offered to school kids.
News outlets cover a new federal analysis of health expenditures that have been bouncing around during the pandemic but now stand at nearly $13,500 annually per person. Axios suggests the rise in spending in 2022 shows a return to pre-pandemic patterns of spending growth. But other data show fewer people have gone uninsured over the last three years.
Editorial writers delve into abortion rights, diabetes, obesity and long covid.
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Read recent pharmaceutical developments in KFF Health News' Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
Editorial writers discuss mental health, prenatal care, the cost of health care and more.
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Opinion writers tackle the failure of abortion exemptions in Texas.
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