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Separately, a study shows superbugs are less likely to be found in organic meat. Warnings against eating cicadas if you have seafood allergy, athlete mental health, and suicides among young people suffering schizophrenia are also in the news.
The tool for calculating vaginal birth risks after cesarean sections had reported higher risks for pregnancies in non-white patients. Elsewhere, electronic health records in rural hospitals, Chicago's Mercy Hospital, DispatchHealth and Johns Hopkins are also in the news.
In response, Rhode Island's Eleanor Slater Hospital says it will toughen its policies. Other health care industry news is on the Scripps ransomware attack, expensive prescriptions, a convicted VA pathologist who lacked oversight and a nursing home manager accused of endangering residents.
Meanwhile, Kentucky is suing CVS for its role in supplying and distributing opioids. Vermont has also decriminalized possession of buprenorphine--used for treating opioid dependency.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission aims to close a loophole that has allowed for an explosion in untested infant sleep products that conflict with federal safe sleep guidelines, The Washington Post reports. Other Biden administration news touches on OSHA, so-called Havana syndrome, HHS migrant shelters and more.
Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has alleged that AbbVie "shifts profits offshore while reporting a domestic loss in the United States to avoid paying U.S. corporate income taxes."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells the stories of Georgians who can't afford private insurance but don't qualify for Medicaid. Other news comes out of Alabama, Vermont and Pennsylvania. And KHN interviews the new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The freeze was enacted by public health officials as a way to keep people in their homes and out of crowded homeless shelters during the pandemic.
Florida's hospitalizations are at the lowest point in a year, Iowa reports fewer than 100 new cases per day, and the Navajo Nation reports no additional deaths against a broader background of falling covid numbers across the country.
The Food and Drug Administration says it can't rule out a low-level risk of cross-contamination between the two vaccines manufactured by contractor Emergent BioSolutions. In other vaccine news from the Biden administration: the White House science adviser looks to the next pandemic's salvation and a CDC decision hamstrings investigations of breakthrough infections.
Unused doses of covid vaccines stored in the U.S. will soon be heading to nations experiencing vaccine shortages as the Biden administration finalizes its plans for sharing. Meanwhile, the European Union moves away from vaccine IP waivers.
Money and prizes are offered up to residents in West Virginia and Ohio who get vaccinated, while Maine ends its current program after only 15% of eligible residents claimed their reward.
Among the outside-the-box measures that are part of the White House's "month of action": Anheuser-Busch announced its "biggest beer giveaway ever" if Americans reach the goal.
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The bank holiday weekend may have played a part in Tuesday's data, but it's the first zero-death day in almost a year. Separately, the World Health Organization approved the Sinovac vaccine for emergency use and Japan makes vaccination progress before the Olympics.
There were 9.1% more abortions in Kansas in 2020 than 2019, partly because patients from Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere outnumbered local patients for the first time. Other news covers Florida's anti-trans law, Oklahoma's Medicaid system and more.
Read about the biggest pharmaceutical developments and pricing stories from the past week in KHN's Prescription Drug Watch roundup.
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