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Health insurance premiums are driven by out-of-control pricing on every rung of the healthcare industry ladder, Stat reported. Now, more employers are supporting government intervention. Other news is on abortion protections, better screening for emergency care necessities, and more.
The White House said eligible seniors this month will either receive a direct deposit into their accounts or a check in the mail. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Friday that the payments are meant to “help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums.”
Florida's outbreak has topped 250 cases this year, and 14 other states are seeing a rise in cases spread by infected mosquitoes. Also in the news: measles, shingles, the plague, Ebola, cyclospora, and the flu.
The prize was awarded Monday to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work in optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Their work is being used in laboratories worldwide to uncover the brain's mysteries.
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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that about 254 health workers have been infected and 50 have died since the outbreak began in May. Separately, as flu season picks up, San Francisco reports its first death. California health data show 26 people have died from flu so far this season.
According to federal data released this week, the 2027 plans will eliminate broad networks of doctors and hospitals, cut benefits, and raise out-of-pocket costs for seniors. Insurers' press releases, however, are presenting their plans as robust, Healthcare Dive noted.
While asking the courts to delay the takeover, Arizona's attorneys claimed that the corrections department was not given enough time to make progress and argued that the official appointed to run healthcare operations wouldn’t be politically accountable, AP reported. On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied the state’s request. Arizona's prison healthcare system has received complaints for the past 14 years and was found to have exposed prisoners to harm and preventable deaths.
Christa Pike told the execution team that she felt burning and pain while they were trying to deliver the lethal drug into her system. Joel Zivot, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine who previously was retained by Pike's legal team as a medical expert, offered a theory that the IV lines failed during the procedure, causing pentobarbital to leak outside the veins rather than fully entering Pike's circulation, Newsweek wrote. Pike's prognosis is unclear.
Bipartisan Senate appropriators are looking for language that could be added to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11, Roll Call reported. Meanwhile, STAT reported that NIH grants around race and health disparities saw cuts this year.
Come Jan. 1, 10 pharmaceutical companies will pay rebates to providers only after it's been established that qualifying drugs were dispensed to eligible patients. Drugmakers have expressed concern that there is waste and fraud in the program, an allegation that hospitals say is overblown.
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The tool, which will be offered by digital health company Everlywell, will assess a woman's five-year breast cancer risk using a single mammogram image. The test will not be covered by insurance and will cost $249.
While most physician specialties saw an increase in their average starting salary this year, the specialty that had the greatest year-over-year salary increase was urology, with a 22.5% increase, while gastroenterology had the highest average starting salary, according to an AMN Healthcare analysis. Also in the news: Luminis Health's MyChart is restored after a cyberattack; Epic Systems uses AI to help safeguard medical records; and more.
According to Iowa Public Radio, the state-funded report showed that 76% of the state's excess cases could be explained when controlled for risk factors like age, race, and alcohol and tobacco use, among others. This suggests that "prevention efforts targeting modifiable risk factors would reduce the number of excess cases of cancer in Iowa," the state with one of the highest rates of cancer in the country.
Cellphone bans, intended in part to improve students' mental health, are already in place in most states. This bipartisan legislation would provide money for states to add secure storage spots to enforce bans. Students with special education or medical needs would be able to keep their devices.
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