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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
NC's Rural Health Pilot To Resume In January After 18-Month Pause
North Carolina Health News: Scaled-Back Version Of NC's Rural Health Pilot Will Return In January
The Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a first-of-its-kind initiative that used Medicaid dollars to address non-medical health needs of rural North Carolinians, will resume in January after an 18-month pause. However, the scope of the program will be drastically reduced. (Baxley, 11/4)
More health news from across the U.S. —
The Washington Post: Inmates Detail Pervasive Raw Sewage And Mold Issues At D.C. Jail In New Lawsuit
“The toilets are like volcanoes waiting to erupt,” one inmate says in the class-action suit. (Solano and Scott, 11/3)
CBS News: NYC Marathoner Died Of Rhabdomyolysis, Her Father Says. Here's What To Know About The Rare Condition.
A 24-year-old woman who died after collapsing 2 miles from the finish line of the TCS New York City Marathon had a rare condition called rhabdomyolysis, her father said. Steve Apa told The New York Times that his daughter Rachel had been texting him indicating that she was in pain earlier in the race. Her mother was waiting at Mile 25, he said, but Rachel never made it to the milestone. (Breen and Gounder, 11/3)
The New York Times: Can Restaurants And Bars Become The New Funeral Homes?
More Americans are forgoing funeral services altogether in favor of memorials in nontraditional places, like restaurants and bars. (Hennessy, 11/2)
KFF Health News: Stuck In Shelters For Months, Some Migrant Children Abandon Hopes Of Staying In US
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded by pink and blue dots. “I miss you a lot, mami I love you a lot mami I want to be with you.” (Boyd-Barrett and Rayasam, 11/4)
KFF Health News: IVF Patients, Doctors Navigate Fetal Personhood Laws’ Unknowns
In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos. The married couple were living in California but storing their nine embryos for $3,000 per year at the clinic in Michigan, where Mertzman had resided before. After having two daughters through in vitro fertilization, the couple had decided they wanted more children. But Mertzman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, and the women were waiting for a better time for implantation. (Platzman Weinstock, 11/4)
