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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who was one of the lawmakers visiting two Texas border facilities, said that one of the detainees had been told to drink water out of the toilet. "We’re talking systemic cruelty [with] a dehumanizing culture that treats them like animals," she tweeted after the visit.
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The parasite is a problem in pools because an infected swimmer can excrete the parasite at several orders of magnitude higher than the amount necessary to cause infection, officials warn. In other public health news: strokes, "shock therapy," smiling, children's care, hand dryers and hearing loss, infertility, body shape, and more.
Fair officials closed access to nearly 3,000 animals on Saturday. Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician, said the most common form of E. coli transmission is when young people come in contact with animal feces. The importance of handwashing is ''paramount,'' he said.
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Twenty-three patients at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center who lived in two wards at the public hospital that primarily serves dementia patients were subjected to alleged physical and verbal abuse between 2016 and 2019. Health officials said Friday that the six alleged abusers took photos and videos of themselves engaging in the abuse — including having sexualized conversations with patients. The alleged abusers exchanged those photos and videos over text messages. News on hospitals comes out of Minnesota, Oregon, Florida and Kansas, as well.
The negotiations revolve around how much Iowa will pay national insurance companies to run its Medicaid program. Officials decline to estimate how much more money the state will have to spend on the program, but said any increase would include money for initiatives legislators approved, such as higher reimbursement rates for nursing homes that care for Iowa Medicaid members. News on Medicaid comes out of Florida, Kansas and Illinois, as well.
Elizabeth Holmes and her former No. 2 Sunny Balwani are accused of defrauding investors, patients, and doctors in a blood-testing scandal that brought down health care’s richest venture-backed startup and have become an industry parable for the dangers of medical hype and hubris. Jury selection is scheduled to begin in July 2020 and the trial is expected to last about three months.
Purde Pharma, which is considering filing for bankruptcy, had been earning $3 billion a year and employed nearly 2,000 employees. Sales have declined and last year the company eliminated its sales force as 1,800 lawsuits against the OxyContin-maker allege it played a key role in the opioid epidemic. More news on the drug crisis focuses on dangers to opioid-exposed children, revisions to treatment strategies, monitoring prescriptions and help for jailed sufferers.
"Results of this analysis suggest that there has been a clear lack of progress on health equity during the past 25 years in the United States," the researchers of the new study write.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told reporters after Thursday night's debate that she had interpreted the question as referring to a personal choice and clarified that she did not support eliminating private insurance completely. The topic is politically fraught, which few of the candidates at last week's debate jumped to support.
Despite his illness, Luis Alvarez appeared with comedian Jon Stewart to urge Congress to authorize longterm health care funding for 9/11 first responders. “You all said you would never forget. Well, I’m here to make sure that you don’t," the former New York City police detective told lawmakers at the hearing. Alvarez was admitted to a hospice within a few days of his testimony.
Marshae Jones faces criminal charges after she was shot during an argument with another woman and Jones' unborn fetus died. While the case sparks national outrage, in Alabama there's little debate whether Jones is culpable for the death.
The state administrative panel won't hear the case until August, but the clinic can remain operational until then. Meanwhile, Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi indicated it's likely the clinic will win its battle against the state in the end. “This has been a week-to-week fight for our patients and every Missourian who needs access to abortion care," said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an attending physician at the St. Louis clinic.
The Supreme Court decided against hearing a case on an Alabama law prohibiting a type of surgical abortion used in the second trimester of pregnancy. While Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the decision itself, he also made clear that he wants the court to address the hot-button issue.
The suit -- the first filed against the state law -- is brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Georgia abortion providers and reproductive rights advocates. The strict law was expected to illicit a court challenge, and could be one of the abortion cases headed to the Supreme Court.
But Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California ordered the independent monitor to work with federal officials to remedy conditions "post haste." The quality of the detention centers where young immigrants are being held grabbed national attention after reports of abusive, neglectful conditions emerged. In other news from the border: threats of deportation have a chilling effect on domestic violence reports; an elite border patrol medical unit helps the most desperate; and immigrants still contemplating crossing into U.S. despite high-profile deaths.
The rule on expanded protections for health workers who say their moral beliefs interfere with performing certain procedures was set to take effect on July 22, but HHS agreed to delay it until at least Nov. 22.
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