From The State Capitals: California Lawmakers Face Busy Month With Bills On Gun Control, Vaccines, Housing; Minn. GOP Investigate $25M Overpayments To Tribes
News from state legislatures comes from California, Minnesota and North Carolina.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Rocky Rollout Or Stronger Economy? Ohio Studies Possible Reasons For Declining Enrollment In Medicaid
Participation in Ohio Medicaid has dropped nearly every month the past two years, but numbers remain steady in SNAP and food bank enrollments. "We know roughly half the people who left Medicaid, it was for something related to the improvement in the economy," Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran said. News on Medicaid is from Louisiana, as well.
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‘Never Seen Anything Like This’: Trauma Surgeons Who Tried To Save El Paso Victims Recall Wounds, Multiple Injuries
Some patients rushed to the University Medical Center Of El Paso needed more than one surgery after being hit with bullets from an AK-47 style rife. Life-saving treatment still continues. News on gun violence comes from Ohio, California, Massachusetts and Missouri.
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Newark Residents Promised Bottled Water Over Worries Of Dangerous Lead In Public System
After an EPA letter cited insufficient home filters distributed by city, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said bottled water will be provided to residents with lead service lines. Meanwhile, the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon has also been coping with unsafe drinking water for months. In other environmental health news: heat islands impact cities in summer and the EPA refuses to require cancer-warning labels on Roundup weedkiller.
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Opioid Crisis Prompts Law Enforcement, Libraries To Embrace Experimental Solutions
A controversial program in western Massachusetts designates a wing of the county jail for court-ordered addiction treatment for men who have not committed a crime. Meanwhile, a number of libraries nationwide add social workers to their staffs to help the growing number of patrons with drug addiction or mental illness. In other news on the drug epidemic: an alleged online opioid drug dealer goes on trial.
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Kaiser Permanente’s Net Income Soars To $2B In Second Quarter
The not-for-profit health system cites strong equity returns and an accounting change as reasons behind the strong jump. Other hospital and health system news comes out of California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Louisiana, as well.
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Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians Leads To New Efforts To Attract Med Students To The Field
Among the selling points -- the benefits of rural life.
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U.S. Removed From Canada’s List Of Countries It Uses To Control Drug Prices
In addition to the United States, Switzerland was also kicked off the reference list the Canadian government will use to regulate prescription drug costs. Meanwhile, Allscripts, Rite Aid and Novartis are in the news. And Stat interviews the FDA's digital health chief about artificial intelligence devices.
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HHS Sets Timetable For New Rules On Reproductive Health Care Funding
The changes to the Title X program will bar federally funded family clinics from referring women for abortions.
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Major Medical Groups Push For Tempered Gun Control
And, in the wake of the recent spate of mass shootings, public opinion polling indicates that Americans believe gun violence is a problem and support more restrictions on guns.
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Dems Seek To Make Curbing Gun Violence A Central Issue Of Campaign For The White House
Candidates gathered at a forum organized by gun-control advocates that was held at the Iowa State Fair, which attracts about 100,000 visitors a day. Iowa also will hold the nation's first presidential nomination caucuses in February 2020.
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First Edition: August 12, 2019
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Lessons On Getting Frightening Health News In The Mail From 23andMe; Increase Funding, Strategies For Long-Term Impact Of Opioid Epidemic
Opinion writers weigh in on these health topics and others.
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Longer Looks: Can Patients Refuse Doctors Because Of Race?; Out-Of-Control Tooth-Filled Tumors; Greed, Betrayal And Medical Misconduct
Each week, KHN finds interesting reads from around the Web.
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Different Takes: Fear Pervades Americans’ Lives After Mass Shootings; Reinstate Assault Weapons Ban
Editorial pages focus on public health topics coming off the news of the mass killings in El Paso and Dayton.
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Ferguson’s Children: How A Legacy Of Racial Tensions Is Shaping A Generation
Five years after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, a generation of children are growing up in a town defined by raw racial divides. In other public health news, racial health care gaps, dementia, ancient humans and radiation for breast cancer.
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State Highlights: New York Calls For Improved Oversight Of Lead-Prevention Programs For Children; LA Considers Canceling Jail Contract To Refocus On Mental Health Issues
Media outlets report on news from New York, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Vermont, Ohio, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri and Massachusetts.
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FDA Orders Four Tobacco Companies To Remove Their Flavored E-Cigarettes, Hookah Products Being Sold Illegally
Mighty Vapors, Liquid Labs, V8P Juice International and Hookah Imports have been selling products introduced to the market after the effective date of a rule that gave authority to the FDA to regulate all tobacco products. In other vaping news, researchers study a cluster of vaping-related lung illnesses in Wisconsin.
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Maryland Health Centers Receive Nearly $9M In Federal Grants To Help Lower Opioid Fatalities
The funding is expected to increase medication-assisted treatments, which have increased 142% nationally from 2016-2018. News on the drug epidemic comes from Ohio and Massachusetts, as well.
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Graham Vows A ‘Smart’ Health Law Repeal If Republicans Retake The House
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said his legislation would shift money from states that expanded Medicaid to ones that didn't. "If we could get the money back to the states, Democratic policies would be tested against our policies," Graham said. State insurance news comes out of North Carolina and Georgia, as well.
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