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Even as new covid subvariants are on the rise, and cutbacks in reporting on covid data have "clouded" the view of recent trends, as the Wall Street Journal notes, U.S. hospitalizations and deaths are near new lows. Meanwhile, the WHO is considering if covid is still a global emergency.
State Sen. Erin Grall, a Republican, is quoted in the media as saying, “there’s not anything in the language of this bill that is targeting any specific group." The bill aims to penalize people who use public restrooms or changing facilities that don't correspond with sex as assigned at birth.
Legislators fast-tracked the measure that would reduce the window in North Carolina from 20 weeks to 12 in order to get an abortion. The bill passed with what would be a veto-proof majority.
Clinical trial data released by Eli Lilly Wednesday suggests that its antibody treatment donanemab may work better than an-already approved rival drug at slowing cognitive and functional decline in Alzheimer's patients. But this therapy also has risks of deaths and serious brain side effects.
This fall, adults 60 and older in the U.S. will be able to get GSK's vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, sold as Arexvy, after the FDA approved the shot Wednesday. Next steps are for the CDC to approve guidelines for use.
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In other news: Georgia's state government will for the first time run its individual health insurance marketplace; a review of a Montana nuclear missile base shows no risk factors to explain a blood cancer cluster; a trans surgery ban for minors advances in North Carolina; and more.
A new study finds that being online may help boost the brain health of older adults. Separately, half of parents in a survey said they think social media is bad for their children's mental health. And a legal push for parental control over kids' social media use becomes complicated.
Just one dose is highly effective at preventing infections over three years, according to a study, potentially extending supplies and lowering costs. Meanwhile, researchers have managed for the first time to get some chemo drugs through the blood-brain barrier.
Though rates of infection and hospital performance on safety measures continued to get worse during peak covid in late 2021 and 2022, data from the Leapfrog Group’s spring 2023 Safety Grades Rankings showed some hospitals got the top A grades — like the Cleveland Clinic.
Wisconsin's Supreme Court sided with Aurora Health Care in a case with implications for court interventions in health care provider decisions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In other news, the CDC has opened a probe into a covid outbreak at its own annual conference.
Abortion is currently legal until the 20th week of pregnancy in North Carolina, and the state has been a haven for women in the South. The Washington Post says that in the first two months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, North Carolina experienced a greater spike in abortions than any other state.
Procedural differences derailed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's first markup which was expected to kick off a bipartisan effort to address high drug prices. The disagreements led to the panel recessing until after next week's hearing with pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical executives.
More than tripling from 2016 to 2021, CDC data shows that fentanyl overdose death rates were the highest across every age and racial group. Fatalities due to methamphetamines and cocaine also jumped significantly over that period, while heroin deaths declined.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers delve into these public health topics.
Under a deal reached Monday, the New York Department of Health must lift some of its most restrictive rules for low-income recipients, including the “eight points of contact” policy that "was set up to pull your teeth rather than treat them."
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