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First Edition: May 7, 2024

May 7, 2024 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.

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Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge

By Arthur Allen May 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The FDA told Amgen to test whether a quarter-dose of its lung cancer drug worked as well as the amount recommended on the product label. It did and with fewer side effects. But Amgen is sticking to the higher dose — which earns it an additional $180,000 a year per patient.

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Biden Team’s Tightrope: Reining In Rogue Obamacare Agents Without Slowing Enrollment

By Julie Appleby Updated May 8, 2024 Originally Published May 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Federal regulators face a growing challenge — how to prevent rogue health insurance agents from switching unknowing consumers’ Obamacare coverage without making the enrollment process so cumbersome that enrollment declines.

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A digital illustration of differently shaped sunscreen containers lined up in front of a shining sun. The containers each have a flag on it, including those of the United States, the European Union, Japan, France, South Korea, Australia, and Canada.

What’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?

By Michael Scaturro Illustration by Lydia Zuraw May 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A decade after Congress told the FDA to expedite the approval of more effective sunscreens, the federal government still has not approved sunscreen ingredients that are safely being used around the world. Meanwhile, skin cancer is the nation’s most common cancer.

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La gripe aviar es mala para las aves de corral y las vacas lecheras. No es una amenaza grave para la mayoría de nosotros… por ahora

By Amy Maxmen May 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Las pruebas han detectado el virus en el ganado en nueve estados, principalmente en Texas y Nuevo México, y más recientemente en Colorado. Una persona ha dado positivo para el H5N1.

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Rompiendo una promesa: déficit en California podría frenar aumentos a cuidadores de personas con discapacidades

By Vanessa G. Sánchez May 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro señalan que California ha vuelto más difícil retener a los trabajadores en tareas de cuidado después que aumentara los salarios en otros sectores vinculados a los servicios y la salud.

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California propone ampliar subsidios de seguros de salud a todos los inmigrantes adultos

By Jasmine Aguilera, El Tímpano May 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California es el primer estado en ampliar Medicaid a todos los adultos que reúnan los requisitos, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, una medida celebrada por los activistas de la salud y por líderes políticos de todo el estado.

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Steward Health Files For Bankruptcy: Mass. Scrambles To Deal With Impact

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Steward Health Care’s community hospitals were once feted for their benefits to Boston’s health system, The Boston Globe says. Now the state has had to activate an emergency operations plan to work with Steward-owned hospitals.

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Viewpoints: Congress Just Voted Against Cancer Funding; Psychiatrists Reexamining Transgender Care

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers discuss cancer funding, transgender care, frontotemporal dementia, and more.

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Metabolic Disorder Is Slowly Being Renamed To Remove Stigma Of Shame

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Medical societies’ hope is that changing “fatty liver disease” to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease will prompt patients to seek care earlier. Meanwhile, assisted-living facilities are straining emergency services with calls to help patients who have fallen and can’t get up.

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A Year Into Iowa Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ More Lost Coverage Than Expected

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Reports say at least 283,000 Iowans have been disenrolled so far, including nearly 90,000 kids — far above the state’s projections. Also in the news: STDs in Colorado and Florida; violence and abuse in North Carolina psych hospitals; and more.

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Morning Briefing for Monday, May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

New health rules, inhalers, stranded in the ER, bird flu, Medicaid “unwinding,” abortion access, drugs, metabolism, and more are in the news.

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White House Rushing Health Rules To Make Them Harder To Reverse

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Biden administration is facing a deadline of June or July to finalize any rules it wants protected from quick congressional reversal or from being easily modified by a potential Trump administration. The majority of major health regulations were issued in April, but federal officials are working to push through others.

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Details Emerge Of Mild Symptoms In Only Documented Human Bird Flu Case

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

The dairy worker in Texas who caught bird flu from an infected cow was lucky enough to avoid most flu-like symptoms, including respiratory ones. Reports say he had only a bad case of pink eye. Health officials are now urging dairy workers to use protective gear.

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Missourians Clear First Hurdle For Putting Abortion Rights Up To A Vote

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Abortion-rights advocates delivered 380,000 signatures, twice as many as necessary. Other news is on doulas and their role in shrinking the reproductive health care gap.

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Kids Who Lost Parents To Drugs Or Gun Violence Face ‘Double Burden’

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Data from 2020 show the number of parents who died from these two causes is double what it was in 1999. A separate study found that not only is the child death rate rising, but there are growing disparities across ethnic and racial groups.

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First Edition: May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.

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A photo of a doctor holding up a dry powder inhaler to show his patient sitting next to him.

Could Better Inhalers Help Patients, and the Planet?

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR May 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Puff inhalers can be lifesavers for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases, but some types release potent greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. That, in turn, worsens wildfires, contributes to air pollution, and intensifies allergy seasons — which can increase the need for inhalers. Some doctors are helping patients switch to more eco-sensitive inhalers.

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Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm

By Judith Graham May 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Many older adults who need hospital care are getting stuck in emergency room limbo — sometimes for more than a day. The long ER waits for seniors who are frail, with multiple medical issues, lead to a host of additional medical problems.

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Journalists Delve Into Climate Change, Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ and the Gap in Mortality Rates

May 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News and California Healthline staffers made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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