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Funding For Health Measures Still In Limbo Amid Spending Deal Talks

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Such programs were not a part of the stopgap funding measure passed by Congress yesterday, that will keep the government operating further into March. Providers and hospitals hope that extended money for community health centers or a reduction of the Medicare physician pay cut could still make a final spending deal.

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Staff Shortages, Employee Burnout Are At Crisis Levels In Nursing Homes

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Although the worst of the covid pandemic is over, problems it caused in the U.S. nursing home industry persist. CMS, meanwhile, reports that during the pandemic in 2021, health systems saw deepened racial disparities and worse care outcomes affect their quality measures.

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FDA Found Quality-Control Issues In California Neuralink Lab

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

The brain implant company was cited for problems with record-keeping and quality controls for animal experiments, Reuters says. The company’s Texas facility was found problem-free. Also in the news, biotech companies worry about government oversight of biosecurity as it pertains to China.

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Deaths Linked To Excess Alcohol Hit 488 Per Day During Pandemic: CDC

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Excessive alcohol consumption drove a spike in deaths at the height of the pandemic, new CDC data show. Separately, the WHO is warning that effective anti-obesity medication isn’t going to be enough to solve a problem that affects over a billion people around the world.

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Rural Emergency Hospital Program Gets Go-Ahead From Florida Senate

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

The goal is to ensure health care access in rural areas by creating a new type of health facility. Also in the news, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles launched a new Small Baby Unit; a shigellosis outbreak hits unhoused people in Santa Cruz; a Michigan study of marijuana health benefits; more.

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RSV Shots: Health Officials Investigate Rare Cases Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

The numbers are small, around two cases per 100,000 people who’ve been given the vaccine, and more data is required to properly quantify the risk. Meanwhile, Pfizer says its RSV single dose vaccine Abrysvo protects against the illness through two years.

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Morning Briefing for Friday, March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Medical debt, IVF, overdoses, ransomware attack, nursing home staffing shortages, RSV shots, and more are in the news. Plus, your weekend reads.

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Health Providers Struggle To Get Paid As Ransomware Attack Stretches On

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Hospitals, health systems, and pharmacies that work with the UnitedHealth subsidiary are now feeling the effects of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare as payments are frozen. More patients are also experiencing difficulty in getting their medical prescriptions filled amid reports that the ransomware outage could last several more weeks.

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Alabama Lawmakers Advance Bills To Shield IVF Clinics

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Alabama’s House and Senate both passed similar bills Thursday that will be swapped and debated next week. The measures aim to address fallout from the state’s Supreme Court ruling granting “personhood” to frozen embryos. News outlets also examine the reverberations from that case outside of Alabama.

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Judge Strikes Down 3 Montana Anti-Abortion Laws As Unconstitutional

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

Laws that included banning abortions after 20 weeks were struck down by District Court Judge Kurt Krueger. Meanwhile, Missouri accused Planned Parenthood of “trafficking” minors for abortions. The death of a pregnant Amish woman is among other news.

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First Edition: March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Morning Briefing

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

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California Hospitals, Advocates Seek Stable Funding to Retain Behavioral Health Navigators

By Vanessa G. Sánchez March 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California has supported expanded use of medications in the fight against opioid use disorder and overdose deaths. But hospitals and addiction treatment advocates say the state needs to secure ongoing funding if it wants more behavioral health workers to guide patients into long-term treatment.

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How a Friend’s Death Turned Colorado Teens Into Anti-Overdose Activists

By Rae Ellen Bichell March 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

High school students in Colorado are pushing for a change they say is necessary to combat fentanyl poisoning: ensuring students can’t get in trouble for carrying the overdose reversal drug naloxone wherever they go, including at school.

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With Medical Debt Burdening Millions, a Financial Regulator Steps In to Help

By Noam N. Levey March 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created after the Great Recession of 2007-09, has increasingly started policing the health care system.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Alabama’s IVF Ruling Still Making Waves

February 29, 2024 Podcast

Lawmakers in Congress and state legislatures are scrambling to react to the ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization are legally children. Abortion opponents are divided among themselves, with some supporting full “personhood” for fertilized eggs, while others support IVF as a moral way to have children. Rachel Cohrs of Stat, Riley Griffin of Bloomberg News, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University schools of nursing and public health and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews University of Pittsburgh law professor Greer Donley, who explains how a 150-year-old anti-vice law that’s still on the books could be used to ban abortion nationwide. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too.

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Mezcla letal: se extiende el uso de fentanilo con sedantes para caballos

By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times February 29, 2024 KFF Health News Original

La xilacina se utiliza para sedar a los caballos. Ahora la están mezclando con fentanilo. Es letal y la naloxona no frena las sobredosis.

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Alarm Raised About Quality, Services From Health Providers Amazon Bought

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Patients are voicing concerns about changes to health service quality and offerings from providers that Amazon bought, such as Iora Health clinics’ parent company One Medical. Meanwhile, construction of a new Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Jose is set for 2025.

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Research Roundup: Cancer; Covid; Obesity; Marijuana; Preemies

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Each week, KFF Health News compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

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Viewpoints: Global Use Of Chlormequat Must Be Eliminated; Hospital ‘Boarding’ Has Gotten Out Of Control

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers discuss a deadly pesticide, hospital boarding, self-defense laws, and more.

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Novo Nordisk Pursuing Vaccine-Like Yearly Dose Weight-Loss Drug

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

The pharma company behind runaway success weight-loss drug Wegovy is looking into future obesity drug technology. Separately, a long-term study shows that exercise can help people keep from gaining weight after they’ve been taking a weight-loss drug.

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