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Noting that vaccines alone aren't enough to stop community transmission of all variants of covid, the World Health Organization stressed the importance of sticking with masks. Separately, senators are pressing the CDC and TSA on when they'll update masking rules.
Some public health officials and politicians are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to step up their review, arguing that it would help some hesitant Americans to get vaccinated.
Many are stuck in a tug of war between one parent who says yes and the other who says no. Increasingly, adolescents are seeking ways to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent.
Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Chris Van Hollen is calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help Americans facing aggressive medical debt collection by hospitals. Separately, news outlets report on a charity's big buy of medical debt, hospital tactics and more.
Covid boosters might not be needed after all — as long as the virus and its variants do not evolve much beyond their current forms, which is not guaranteed.
After a weekend of negotiations, the White House and senators say that the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal is back on track when the Biden administration backed off comments linking the bill to a larger spending package that would include more health care measures.
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A new British study suggests covid may have been spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before detection in Wuhan. Meanwhile, a Chinese researcher reports two Chinese covid vaccines are less effective against the delta variant, but still offer protection.
The new Gender Recognition Act also lets people select "parent" as a non-binary gender option on birth certificates. Covid sanitation protocols, air pollution and cancer in Louisiana, syphilis in Florida and a surge in respiratory syncytial virus are also in the news.
In other news, research says gray hair can return to its original color; a study suggests chocolate for breakfast may have beneficial effects; Peloton's product recall faces backlash; and Britney Spears' forced contraception sparks a legal debate.
Other health care industry news is on St. Joseph's/Candler, Health Catalyst, Twistle, LifeStance Health and more.
Some lots of Pfizer's Chantix pill were contaminated with high levels of nitrosamine, causing a global halt in sales. In other news, regulators approved Roche's covid treatment drug Actemra in the U.S., and the CDC backs use of a controversial dengue vaccine.
Following the "unprecedented" FDA approval of Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug, Eli Lilly is reportedly seeking speedy approval for its drug donanemab. Stat reports on how the drug's potential approval may play a part in the debate over Biogen's pricing.
Over a quarter of a billion people worldwide used controlled substances in a "non-medical use" way last year according to a United Nations study. Separately, AP reports that drug overdose deaths during the pandemic rose dramatically among Black Americans.
Congressional Democrats introduced new legislation that would increase access to home- and community-based health care as the needs for such services can not be currently met by state Medicaid programs.
More than 1.8 million Latino children lacked health coverage as of 2019, a rate of 9.3%, a new study shows. In 2016, the uninsured rate of Latino children was at 7.7%. In comparison, the uninsured rate of non-Latino children grew from 3.7% in 2016 to 4.4% in 2019.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pushed the expiration of the national moratorium on evictions to July 31. The Biden administration is urging state and local officials to take steps to avoid a massive loss in housing.
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