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Nevada was one of two states, Reuters reports, that didn't join a $4.35 billion settlement with the drugmaker over its role in the opioid crisis last year. Meanwhile, in Missouri, the Republican governor signed legislation banning trans minors from accessing gender care.
Fox News covers a new study that links sucralose, found in popular zero-calorie sweetener Splenda, with damaged DNA, increased cancer risks and gut lining leaks. Separately, insomnia has been linked to a higher stroke risk for people under 50.
News outlets report on worsening shortages of some common cancer treatments, which are forcing doctors to switch medications and delay care. More than 90% of large cancer centers are reporting chemo drug shortages. Also in the news: retail pharmacies, Astellas Pharma, GSK, and more.
The goal is to make it easier to search huge data pools of patient data, and also to automate administrative tasks. Meanwhile, failures of ChatGPT when it comes to health crises, AI's role in improving predictions of breast cancer risks, and more are also reported.
Stat and AP report on a study that shows that reanimating a heart from a patient who has died, then keeping it pumping in transport, results in just as good of a donor heart for transplantation as traditional methods. The breakthrough could allow more patients to receive the surgery.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf told the audience at the BIO 2023 convention, "The prices of drugs are too high in the U.S., and we have to come to grips with it." Critics complained about provisions in President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, dubbing it the “Innovation Reduction Act."
The legal to-and-fro over the Affordable Care Act's preventive care coverage requirements for insurers has reached a possible compromise, AP reports. The Hill explains a panel of judges have given the two parties until Friday to submit terms of a possible agreement so coverage can continue.
News outlets report on weather system patterns that suggest the blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires will hang over the U.S. for days. Potentially unhealthy air quality conditions, particularly for vulnerable people like children who have asthma, are likely to remain.
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the new law, saying that "gender identity is real" and suggesting Florida has no basis for denying patients' treatment. Separately, the volume of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed in the U.S. leads a rights organization to declare a "state of emergency."
A new study of data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey showed that more children, teens and young adults are having anxiety even as rates of appropriate treatment fell. Also in the news: deaths linked to a recalled infant lounger; the Pope undergoes surgery; and more.
Research from the Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute shows that regardless of a hospital's safety rating, Black and Latino patients are at higher risk of adverse safety events. Also: burnout in primary care workers, an electrical field system for tackling lung cancer, and more.
The new study looked at records of around a quarter of a million doses of Pfizer and Moderna covid shots given to children ages 4 and under. Also in the news, the FDA has approved Cue Health's at-home covid test, heart dysfunction in long covid patients, and more.
News outlets cover the pall of wildfire smoke that's drifting south from Canada and affecting air quality in the U.S., potentially hitting the health of vulnerable people. Also in environmental health news: PFAS and "forever chemical" pollution.
Planned Parenthood is trying to block a new law that requires health care providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed, which is not supported by medical evidence. A Kansas law also says providers must warn patients that abortion is linked to breast cancer, which is untrue. Other abortion news is from Maryland, Indiana, and Colorado.
CDC data, from a Johns Hopkins study, show roughly 40,000 deaths from gun violence happened in 2021 — a record high. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruled that people convicted of non-violent crimes can't be barred from owning a gun. Two recent poignant shooting tragedies are also reported.
Calling the program a "sham," Merck is suing the federal government over plans to negotiate Medicare drug prices. The Biden administration voiced confidence that its authority to make deals will be upheld in court.
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