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First Edition: Aug. 22, 2023

August 22, 2023 Morning Briefing

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

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Doctors Advocate Fresh Efforts to Combat Chagas Disease, a Silent Killer

By Paula Andalo August 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Chagas disease, caused by a parasite, affects people primarily in rural Latin America. But an estimated 300,000 residents of the U.S. have the disease, which can cause serious heart problems. Patient advocates call for much more aggressive efforts to fight it.

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Médicos abogan por nuevos esfuerzos para combatir al Chagas, un asesino silencioso

By Paula Andalo August 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

La enfermedad de Chagas, causada por un parásito, afecta principalmente a personas en las zonas rurales de Latinoamérica. Pero se estima que 300,000 personas en Estados Unidos viven con la enfermedad, que puede causar problemas cardíacos graves. Defensores de pacientes piden esfuerzos mucho más agresivos para combatirla.

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Few Firm Beliefs and Low Trust: Americans Not Sure What’s True in Age of Health Misinformation

By Darius Tahir August 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A new poll from KFF shows many Americans aren’t willing to embrace misinformation — but aren’t willing to reject it either. And they don’t know whom to trust.

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Life in a Rural ‘Ambulance Desert’ Means Sometimes Help Isn’t on the Way

By Taylor Sisk August 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

No local hospital and anemic ambulance services mean residents in rural Pickens County, Alabama, are thrown into perilous situations when they have medical emergencies. It’s a kind of medical care roulette that has become a fact of life for rural Americans who live in ambulance deserts.

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Viewpoints: It’s Past Time For Museums To Repatriate Human Remains

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers examine museums use of human remains, fracking’s link to cancer, American maternal mortality, misinformation, and more.

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Morning Briefing for Monday, August 21, 2023

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Medicaid enrollment, abortion law, mental toll of wildfires, malaria, corporal punishment, covid, and more are in the news.

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Nebraska Abortion Ban Faces Appeal; Issue Could Appear On 2024 Ballot

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Planned Parenthood is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit to the Nebraska Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a group called Protect Our Rights has filed paperwork in support of a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. Other reproductive health news is reported from Florida and Alabama.

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Emotional Toll Of Maui Fire Coming Into Sharper Focus

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Maui’s chief mental health administrator John Oliver is calling the Hawaiian blaze “the worst mental health disaster in our state’s modern history.” Special emphasis is being placed on school intervention as students begin to go back to class. Meanwhile, forensic specialists continue the grim task of identifying the victims.

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Maryland Joins List Of States With Locally Acquired Malaria Case

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Such cases are rare, NBC News reports. The patient, the latest in a string of such infections, hadn’t recently traveled outside the U.S. Meanwhile, in Florida, four new cases of locally acquired dengue fever were reported between July 30 and Aug. 5, bringing the state’s total to 10 this year.

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Changing State Laws Push Up Patient Consults With Alternative Medical Staff

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Media outlets explain how patients are increasingly meeting with physician assistants and nurse practitioners alongside traditional doctors as shifting state laws help hospitals deal with the ongoing physician shortage. Nurse strikes, pay for tribal health workers, and more are also reported.

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Only 265 Approved So Far For Georgia’s Medicaid Plan With Work Requirements

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Georgia’s Pathways Medicaid program — seen as a test case for work requirements — is off to a slow start since its July 1 launch, with just a few hundred approved for benefits. This comes at the same time that thousands are losing traditional Medicaid as states review enrollments, post-pandemic. News on Medicaid unwinding is also reported from Virginia, Missouri, Florida, and Wisconsin.

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Pediatrician Group Calls For Ban On Corporal Punishment In All Schools

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Updated policy released by the American Academy of Pediatrics calls for a ban on all striking or spanking of school children. Separately, new research shows that kids who experienced assault are more likely to develop mental illnesses.

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Study Finds Risk Of High Blood Pressure From Covid Infections

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

A new study looked at data of U.S. covid patients who previously had no hypertension, finding those hospitalized with covid-19 were diagnosed with hypertension at twice the rate of those who were not. Also in the news: covid-blood clot links in cancer patients; U.S. covid rates tick up slowly; more.

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Cyberattack Has Prolonged Impact On Hospital System In Several States

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

Prospect Medical Holdings is experiencing outages of key computer systems more than two weeks after a cyberattack. Among other news: Mayo Clinic is continuing its expansion; Axios says rural hospitals are experiencing a “squeeze” from Medicare Advantage; and more.

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People Who Lost Sight In Single Eye Have Vision Restored In Stem Cell Trial

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

News outlets report on a breakthrough experiment in cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation, which used stem cells from one eye to restore vision to the patient’s other eye which was damaged by chemical burns. Meanwhile, a sickle cell gene-editing treatment shows promise.

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First Edition: Aug. 21, 2023

August 21, 2023 Morning Briefing

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

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Tribal Health Workers Aren’t Paid Like Their Peers. See Why Nevada Changed That.

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez August 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Community health workers, who often help patients get to their appointments and pick up prescriptions for them, have increasingly been recognized as an integral part of treating chronic illnesses. But state-run Medicaid programs don’t always reimburse them equally, usually excluding those who work on tribal lands.

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The CDC Works to Overhaul Lab Operations After Covid Test Flop

By Sam Whitehead August 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

In early 2020, U.S. public health labs received covid-19 tests from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were flawed, as a result of poor design and contamination. Now the CDC is overhauling its lab operations, but efforts to be better prepared for future threats won’t be easy, observers say.

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Estrategias comerciales de las grandes farmacéuticas dejan a estadounidenses sin poder comprar sus medicamentos

By Elisabeth Rosenthal August 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Sin barreras, los precios de algunos medicamentos existentes se han disparado, incluso cuando han caído drásticamente en otros países. Los nuevos medicamentos tienen precios enormes, respaldados por el lobby y el marketing.

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