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The state Senate approved a bill lifting the legal age for buying tobacco products from 18 to 21. Meanwhile, at trial, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison accused e-cigarette maker Juul of using "slick products, clever ads" to market its products to children. The opioid crisis is also in the news.
In other news, Walgreens said it won't lift pharmacists' pay any higher; union workers voted "no confidence" in Rhode Island's Women & Infants Hospital management; and the Children's Hospital of Michigan has a new CEO.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that big insurers managing private Medicare plans are making health costs go up for seniors, Bloomberg reports. Stat, meanwhile, explains how a political battle over quality-adjusted life years metrics could hit drug-price negotiation efforts.
Audrey Hale’s parents believed their child had sold one gun and did not own any others. In truth, Hale had legally bought seven firearms, police said. Hale had been seeing a doctor for an undisclosed disorder, but Tennessee does not allow police to confiscate weapons on the grounds of mental illness.
The heart of the case is whether the abortion ban passed in 2019 was illegal from the start, leading to questions over whether it should remain in effect. Other abortion-related news is from Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Kentucky.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified Tuesday that blocked nominations for senior Pentagon personnel "makes us far less ready than we need to be." Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, says he will continue to block nominees until the abortion policy to cover travel costs for service members or their families is changed.
The CDC says that it is only authorizing a single dose of the updated covid vaccine booster at this point in the pandemic, as the U.S. moves toward annual shot recommendations to keep up immunity.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who accused PBMs of illegally driving up drug costs, said: "Insulin is just a symptom of the problem; PBMs are the disease." Meanwhile, a New York family struggling to pay for a child's insulin pump is the focus of a USA Today piece about diabetes care costs.
A fresh study shows that losing weight may help long-term heart health, even if some of the weight is gained back. A separate study links being an early bird sleep apnea sufferer with longer CPAP use. Other research demonstrates that high rent prices negatively impact renters' mental health.
AP notes Idaho's measures would bar medical professionals from prescribing hormones or puberty blockers to transgender or transitioning minors or those with gender dysphoria. A similar measure is under consideration in Texas, as well.
Minnesota sued Juul in 2019, AP notes, but it's now seeking to force the e-cigarette maker and its former largest investor, Altria Group Inc., to pay for remedies for harms caused by addiction. Cholesterol drugs, breast cancer drugs, and more are also in the news.
AP says that despite legislative efforts in the state to restrict abortion rights, Kansas' highest court said that it remains a right under the state constitution. Separately, a case trying to overturn Georgia's six-week abortion ban is in the state's Supreme Court this week.
Researchers say the discovery could help explain the symptoms people infected with the virus experience, as well as some of the mysteries around long covid.
After years of division in North Carolina over the expansion issue, Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, signed the bill Monday recently passed by the Republican-controlled legislature. The new law is expected to qualify an additional 600,000 residents for Medicaid, though it's unclear when enrollment will begin due to a budget proviso.
Senate Republicans have already "cast doubt" on hopes for tighter gun-control laws after a shooter killed six people Monday at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. "I would say we’ve gone about as far as we can go," said Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, again pressed Congress for an assault weapons ban.
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