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An alliance of unions representing about 50,000 Kaiser Permanente staff agreed to a call off a strike after reaching a deal. Trustee investments, liens, Illinois' troubled health program and the nursing staff shortage are also in the news.
Indeed, the seven-day average of new cases is edging back up. And pockets of covid infections are still overwhelming hospitals.
The AP reports on the rise of by-mail abortion pills and how their use in states with anti-abortion laws may fall into legal grey areas. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports on a rise of eating disorders among young boys. Rural pharmacies are in serious decline and a fun study of the infectious diseases James Bond could have got.
Scientists compile evidence on the waning effectiveness of covid vaccines and which ones generate the most antibodies.
Governors of California, Colorado and New Mexico are going beyond the CDC recommendations and encouraging covid vaccine booster doses for all adults.
As Democrats return to another work week dominated by efforts to finalize a deal on the social and safety net spending bill, those efforts may not help them much in the upcoming 2022 elections.
Aduhelm, the Alzheimer's drug made by Biogen, which costs $56,000 a year, is driving up the overall price that all older Americans pay for Medicare outpatient care. The 14.5% increase is the third-largest percentage increase since 2007.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is blocking the OSHA vaccine mandate for employers of 100 or more people. The issue is expected to make its way to the Supreme Court.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the state legislature to block vaccine mandates, with penalties against businesses and local governments that require covid shots.
Former Food and Drug Commissioner Robert Califf is up again for his old job. President Joe Biden's nomination has been met with criticism by some advocacy groups, but news outlets report that Califf is expected to be confirmed.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages delve into these public health issues.
Georgia Health News notes about 2.2 million low-income adults would be eligible for government-funded health insurance under the $1.75 trillion spending package. Meanwhile, more North Carolinians die of traumatic brain injuries than the national average.
Figures reported in the New York Times say global covid deaths for the first week of November were mainly concentrated in Europe, accounting for over half of all cases. Reports say that the case count is falling in the U.K., but other nations still struggle. Portugal tries to protect at-home workers.
Opinion writers weigh in on these covid issues.
Maine reaches out to its farmers and, in Kansas City, schools offer help to those facing mental health struggles.
Hospitals in states that didn't expand Medicaid would receive more than $6.8 billion of new funds in 2022, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute. In other news, ProPublica investigates St. Jude's financial pledge to patients' families while rural hospitals caught in a dilemma over obstetrics units.
The health care giant announced that in the next 18 to 24 months it will spin off its consumer division — with brands like Band-Aid, Tylenol and Listerine — into a yet-to-be-named company. Its pharmaceutical and medical-devices businesses will be retained under Johnson & Johnson.
With Arizona and New Mexico reporting the worst influx, the number of covid patients hospitalized in intensive care units rose over the last two weeks in at least 12 states. And even highly vaccinated Massachusetts is watching worrying numbers.
In other news about children and covid, a Virginia pharmacy was providing the wrong-sized doses to children.
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