First Edition: Aug. 28, 2020
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Research Roundup: COVID In Children; Diabetes; Gonorrhea; Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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Perspective: Who’s Been Right About COVID’s Dangers? Apparently, No One; Census Needs To Correctly Count Black Lives
Editorial pages focus on these public health issues and others.
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Viewpoints: CDC’s New Message On Testing Is Incorrect; New Alcohol Guidelines Are Tough To Swallow
Opinion writers express views on these public health issues and others.
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How The World Is Faring
Global news is from Russia, Mexico, China, Germany, South Korea, and India.
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‘Massive Criminal Attack’: Fraud Hinders Unemployment Claim Process
COVID news and events affecting health are from Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Massachusetts, Georgia, and other states.
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Experts Weigh In On How To Protect Your Lungs From Wildfire Smoke
Learn to understand the Air Quality Index and check it throughout the day, health experts say. Other public health news includes a study on opioid-related deaths and health problems near a dumping ground.
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Study: Fake Cures, Poor Medical Advice Spread On Social Media
Postings pose significant risk to the consumer, according to researchers at the University Of California medical school. Public health news on the pandemic is on over-night camps, hair salons, homeless essential workers, and more
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COVID On Campus: Chaos
To no one's surprise, the coronavirus is racing through colleges that called students back to campus. Some schools suspend party goers. At other universities, students take matters into their own hands.
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Big Fight Looms Over Small Firm’s Drug For Rare Neuromuscular Disorder
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals is trying to block Jacobus Pharmaceuticals, a family-run company, from selling a rival drug that treats Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). Also: a look inside a Chinese vaccine manufacturer and a deeper dive into President Donald Trump's war on the FDA.
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FDA Gives Go-Ahead For Fluidigm’s COVID-19 ‘Spit Test’
People can collect their own samples, which removes the need for health care workers to put themselves at risk. Other news about testing as well.
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3 New Studies Link Obesity With Higher COVID Risk
And other science news explains how aerosol transmission of the virus may heighten your risk at home and while traveling.
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A ‘Functional Cure’ For HIV? 64 People In Genome Study Suppressed Infection Without Drugs
The study, published in the journal Nature, also offers hope that some infected people might be able to stop taking antiretroviral therapy.
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Data Breaches At Hospitals Are Increasing
And it's not just hospitals. A medical supplier got hit recently. In other industry news, where the hot money is going.
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CMS Extends Deadline To Update Self-Referral Law
Because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services are still "working through the complexity of the issues raised by comments received on the proposed rule," they said Wednesday.
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Justice Investigates Nursing Home Deaths
The Department of Justice is asking for data from four governors--all Democrats-- New York's Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey's Phil Murphy, Pennsylvania's Tom Wolf and Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer.
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Trump Administration Wants Limits Reimposed On Medication Abortions
A group of doctors won an injunction to have restrictions on Mifeprex relaxed during the pandemic. Making in-office visits to doctors exposed patients to risk, they said.
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Judge: Virus Fears A Reason For Mail-In Ballot
A Tennessee judge says election officials must tell citizens that the risk of COVID is a valid reason for requesting an absentee ballot.
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White House Might Take Executive Action On COVID Relief Bill
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Politico he doubts there will be a deal with Congress, adding that the administration might take matters into its own hands to prevent furloughs in the airline industry.
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Wisconsin Unrest, ‘Right To Try,’ Personal Health Stories Also In Spotlight At GOP Convention
Health care policy issues are interwoven in some of the key talking points of convention speakers.
By khnlaureno