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The legislation, that passed both congressional chambers with unanimous support, requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify within 90 days information gathered related to possible links between the lab in China and the origins of the covid outbreak.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has been on the defensive since four Americans were kidnapped while visiting Mexico for a medical procedure, said U.S. family values are to blame, in part because parents don’t let their children live at home long enough, AP reported.
Stat News dives into the business of ketamine clinics, while NBC News reports on a new political action committee that aims to bolster legal access to psychedelics as treatment for mental health conditions.
The report was from 2017, but has been "newly surfaced," NBC News explains, and shows that between 2011 and 2016 Black veterans seeking disability benefits for PTSD were denied 57% of the time, compared with 43% for white veterans. High cancer rates in military pilots are also in the news.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced Saturday his state's selection of generic maker Civica to make its own insulin on which costs will be capped at $30. Newsom's administration is moving forward on manufacturing injectable and nasal naloxone to tackle opioid overdoses.
A Stat report says despite industry groups' worry over hospital finances, Medicare policy experts are confident the situation isn't as bad as expected, and they are saying as much to Congress. Meanwhile, HHS owes tens of millions of dollars of adjusted Medicare payments to dozens of safety-net hospitals.
The Washington Post and Axios say Match Day trends show more medical student graduates are shunning the ER and instead choosing specialties like orthopedics and plastic surgery. In Boston, reports say medical residents are planning to unionize. A shortage of medical interpreters is among other news.
Rich nations are locking in supplies of the shots, Reuters reports. Hundreds of millions of shots could be ready within months in case of a cross-species jump. Two vaccines for poultry tested by a Dutch facility, meanwhile, have proved effective against highly infectious bird flu.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he's optimistic that the agency will lift the public health emergency designation this year in light of current covid trends. In the U.S., deaths hit a 3-year low.
Genetic sequencing pointing to a possible zoonotic link to the start of the covid pandemic was unearthed this month on an international database — and then withdrawn by China when flagged. The World Health Organization is urging China to halt a pattern of hampering investigations into the virus' origins and to release all its available information.
A hospital official cited the "political climate" that has made it too difficult to keep obstetric services staffed at Idaho’s Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, a city of more than 9,000 people. Meanwhile, Vermont and New Mexico make legal moves to protect abortion providers.
On Friday night, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed the first ban explicitly targeting abortion pills, making it a felony to prescribe, sell, and to use "any drug" for the purpose of performing an abortion. He also allowed new abortion restrictions to become law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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The AP explains a "number of improvements" for mental health care access ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin do not include controversial moves to limit gun or ammunition purchases by young troops. Stateline, meanwhile, shows how some states are trying to combat rates of gun suicide.
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on TikTok, nursing homes, sandwiches, physician-rating websites, and doctors who make a difference.
A coverage cliff is looming, but many people likely won't reapply for coverage because state Medicaid agencies have lost track of their addresses. “If you can ... match up against IRS or other data, you don’t even need to send them a form,” says Medicaid chief Daniel Tsai.
The disease can lead to flu-like symptoms and can be severe or even fatal, which is concerning as cases doubled between 2011 and 2019 in some Northeastern states. Other public health stories in the news cover school nutrition, pets' impact on sleep quality, allergies, mpox and more.
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