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Studies have shown that community doctors are only 50 to 60 percent accurate in diagnosing Alzheimer's. A new test could help increase those rates.
While the benefits of most CBD-based products remain to be proven in tests, research estimates the U.S. market will reach almost $24 billion by 2023. News on medical marijuana comes out of Oregon, Louisiana, Missouri and Colorado.
The Harvard and Johns Hopkins doctors were particularly alarmed by the possibility of the poor conditions increasing the spread of infectious diseases.
The legislation would require drugmakers to inform the state and give justification for their price hikes. The judge is allowing the industry to proceed with the argument that the law is unconstitutional because it violates interstate commerce and free speech principles.
Emails obtained by Politico reveal a "singular obsession" from White House senior adviser Stephen Miller when it came to the rule that will allow DHS to bar legal immigrants from obtaining green cards if they receive certain government benefits. The previously undisclosed emails could raise legal questions about whether the public charge rule was rushed to completion. Other news from the
Trump administration looks at disaster aid for Puerto Rico, CDC's HIV efforts and the FCC's prioritization of telemedicine.
The industry is even outpacing others when it comes to profit growth, and UnitedHealth and Anthem, the two largest insurers, each beat Wall Street estimates with their second quarter results. Other health industry news looks at medical device litigation, a lab's court challenge of a multi-billion dollar Medicare cut, hospices, and more.
The new FEC figures show that Democrats, who won control of the House during last year’s elections, received $74,000 from Juul’s PAC between Jan. 1 and June 30 while Republicans received $22,500. In other tobacco news: former FDA chief blasts Juul products, a vast majority of Americans support raising the smoking age, and an annual report looks at how states are working to reduce cancer rates.
For the first time in several years, death rates in urban areas have topped those in rural ones. “It indicates the drug problem is a problem everywhere,” said Holly Hedegaard, epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Utah voters in 2018 approved the full expansion with Proposition 3, but lawmakers, citing the potential for runaway costs, repealed the initiative and adopted their own, more restrictive plan. However, the state was rejected from getting the most generous federal funding available because of that decision. Other Medicaid news comes out of Virginia, North Carolina and New Hampshire, as well.
Budget for non-defense programs -- ranging from border patrol to veterans' health care to cancer research -- would rise from the current $605 billion this year to $632 billion next year and $634.5 billion the following year. The bill goes to President Donald Trump next, who touted plan as "phenomenal" for veterans.
Although President Donald Trump's plan to allow some importation of prescription drugs from Canada is popular in the United States, those in our neighbor to the north are concerned it will cause shortages for them.
At a rally, President Donald Trump responded to the Democratic debates, focusing on some of the more progressive ideas that emerged. "“They put foreign citizens before American citizens," Trump claimed. "We’re not going to do that.” Meanwhile, Republican advisers are having similar thoughts. “The idea they’re going to provide illegal immigrants free health care, that’s not going to go down in union households in Michigan," said Karl Rove, the former top political adviser to President George W. Bush.
In the past couple of years, Democrats have found health care to be a winning issue for them politically. But as the candidates edge toward "Medicare for All" and public option plans, the issue could once again become a weak spot. And outlets take a look at which issues were missing from this week's debates.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial pages focus on health issues raised in the Democratic debates.
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health topics and other health issues.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
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“Given the other beneficial effects of treating anemia, this study provides an extra incentive,” said the lead author, Frank J. Wolters, a researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. In other public health news: standing versus running, OCD, foodborne illnesses, breast milk and surgeries for the elderly.
Acute kidney injury is caused by serious health conditions, including sepsis, and affects one in five people admitted to hospital. Quick diagnosis can save lives. While the machine learning system can reduce the time between when the condition is diagnosed and treatment begins within hours, researchers say it was far from perfect and more testing needs to be done.
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