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In a strongly worded report, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said the prolonged detention of migrants without proper food, hygiene or laundry facilities — some for more than a month — requires "immediate attention and action." Photos in the report show how extensive the problems at the facilities are.
A secret Facebook group revealed by ProPublica reporting featured jokes about migrant deaths, among other offensive content. Meanwhile, The Associated Press looks at how Facebook handles hate speech.
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Editorial writers focus on the manslaughter charges against Marshae Jones.
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The state's Medicaid agency will help by using new technology to ensure qualifying low-income women don’t experience a gap in health insurance coverage; working with the Department of Social Services to streamline enrollment; and launching an outreach campaign this fall to reach pregnant women and to connect those in need with substance abuse treatment.
“We didn’t think it was possible, but it happened and we have to deal with it,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said last week after the department's sixth suicide since January. Across the nation, more officers die by suicide than in the line of duty. Police are morely likely to suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome and depression. NYPD is adopting programs put in place by Chicago, including providing peer-to-peer counseling and additional mental health training.
Even as San Francisco has adopted a ban on e-cig sales and states have passed laws raising the purchasing age, the trend among teens to vape is on the upswing, health officials say, and threatens to undermine a decades-long decline in teen smoking. News on efforts to stem nicotine use comes from Vermont, Georgia and Massachusetts, as well.
According to the new guidelines, transgender medical care has been historically siloed to endocrinologists. In other public health news, overactive thyroids, medical myths, dead brains, MRIs and atoms, stem cells, and more.
The move is the latest effort to peel back the curtain on the interplay between pharmaceutical manufacturers and various organizations, some of which have been accused of working harder on behalf of industry interests than patient concerns. Other news on the crisis deals with kratom and needle exchanges.
More than half of the facilities analyzed in a new report met the expected staffing level less than 20% of the time. In other news on nursing homes, a look at the poorest performing of Tennessee's facilities.
“You have these two very low-probability, but very negative events ... that almost all investors think have a close to zero probability of actually happening but the time to get clarity on that is still quite extended. Time is the main issue here," Evercore analyst Michael Newshel said.
The 181 million taxpayers with employer-sponsored coverage could miss out on the benefits of 2020 hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders' plan. And even those receiving Medicaid could pay more, health policy analysts tell Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Sanders emerged out of the debates as the front-runner in terms of who Americans see as the strongest candidate on health care.
"The commonwealth has a compelling interest in taking limited and temporary steps to control an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease," the Kentucky Court of Appeals said in its ruling.
EPA released a rule restricting but not banning asbestos. "We won’t pull any punches," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said. "There’s too much at stake to let the EPA ignore the danger that deadly asbestos poses to our communities.”
On Monday, 104 brand-name and generic drug prices rose by a 13.1% on average, compared to a 7.8% average increase for 318 products a year earlier. "It’s hard to imagine what [drugmakers] are thinking," said one drug industry analyst. "Keeping your head down would seem to be a much better strategy."
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits states from regulating routes or rates, so state regulators can do nothing but look on as prices climb to a median of $39,000. However, the increase could bolster congressional efforts to address balance billing.
The $4.6 billion humanitarian aid package had a long journey through Congress ending on President Donald Trump's desk Monday. It will provide funding to try to help alleviate some of the strain at the border. Meanwhile, the president poked at California's recent decision to expand health care to certain residents regardless of immigration status.
ProPublica received an inside look at some postings on a secret Facebook group for 9,500 former and current Border Patrol agents. The postings reflect what “seems to be a pervasive culture of cruelty aimed at immigrants within CBP. This isn’t just a few rogue agents or ‘bad apples,'" said Daniel Martinez, a sociologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who studies the border. Customs and Border Protection said the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security would conduct an independent investigation.
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