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Axios and Bloomberg report on the HLTH conference, one of the first big health care professional meet-ups since the pandemic began. University of Oklahoma nursing education, a Texas nurse accused of murdering four men, age bias against seniors in health care and more are also in the news.
Axios reports that J&J has acted as expected and split part of the company responsible for handling claims over whether its baby powder products harmed people into a separate company, which is now filing for bankruptcy. The Theranos trial, global medical device sales and more are also reported.
The policy bans the Department of Health and Human Services from penalizing individuals and organizations for noncompliance with agency guidance and requires the agency only carry out civil enforcement actions using standards that are publicly stated, Modern Healthcare reports.
The Biden administration threatened to revoke authority for Arizona, South Carolina and Utah to handle their own workplace safety enforcement over refusals to adopt rules protecting health care workers from covid. Vax mandates, worker firings and more are reported in other news.
Meanwhile, the vaccination rate is slipping in Wisconsin, Florida and other parts of the nation — but not at the Cincinnati Zoo, where 80 animals recently got the shot.
Hawaii's governor signals that the region has seen covid case counts and hospitalizations fall. But Idaho's case counts remain so high the state is still worse than when it started using crisis standards of care management — but case rates are leveling off.
Surprising new research shows that carrying a male fetus can lead to much lower levels of covid antibodies detected in the blood than if the fetus is female. Other media outlets report on different covid issues related to pregnancy, plus MIS-C in children.
A study reported in CIDRAP notes clinical trials found no link between a combination of interferon beta-1a, remdesivir and colchicine, and reduced deaths or risk of hospital treatments from covid infections. Separately, a potential antiviral anti-covid pill from Atea Pharmaceuticals also failed.
The organ was transplanted into a brain-dead woman at N.Y.U. Langone Health. It was successfully attached and found to work normally, although the longevity of the organ is still in question. The surgery could offer hope to the more than 90,000 people who are on waiting lists for a kidney.
For decades, the FDA has regulated hearing aids as medical devices, which adds to the cost and effort of getting fitted for one. The FDA's draft rule, which still faces a 90-day comment period before it's finalized, would allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter.
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A World Health Organization program is trying to make covid tests and treatments easier to access for poorer nations, aiming at getting antiviral drug course prices down to as low as $10. Separately, Pope Francis has urged "a gesture of humanity" from drugmakers to release IP on covid drugs.
Stat reports that although the Food and Drug Administration has approved the interchangeable biosimilar drug, questions remain over whether it will really impact health systems. In other news, the FDA rejected the Omeros drug narsoplimab, aimed at aiding bone marrow transplant complications.
The resolution declaring racism a public health crisis also calls on New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to review the city’s health code to root out structural racism. Meanwhile, Texas passes an anti-trans student ban concerning public school sports.
It's the first time in decades that Senate Democrats have moved to ditch the Hyde Amendment from annual funding bills. Hyde controversially bans people from using Medicaid or other federal health programs to fund abortions. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will speed a review of Texas' abortion law.
Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich was dismissed Monday for not following the statewide mandate. “We’ve had conversations that date back months," Athletic Director Pat Chun said. "He was resolute in his stance. He’s entitled to make a choice; that choice did not put him in compliance.”
UnitedHealthcare is the country's largest insurer, and the goal is to make telemedicine more affordable and accessible — but a survey reported by NPR notes "most" people still prefer in-person medical services, even if telehealth works out "OK." Medicaid, Amazon and more are also in the news.
News outlets note former Secretary of State Colin Powell was battling multiple myeloma, which may have contributed to his death from covid complications — as would his age. Reports note that deaths from breakthrough infections like this remain very rare, and stress the ongoing risk to seniors.
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