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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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Concerned About Microplastics In Your Tap Water? Consider Boiling It

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Hill reports on new research suggesting that at least 80% of the three most common plastic compounds found in tap water are destroyed when the water is boiled. Other public health news is on PFAS in food packaging, ultra-processed foods, and the “fasting-mimicking diet.”

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San Francisco Might Test Welfare Recipients For Drug Use

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Two law-and-order ballot measures will, if passed, represent a new tack against public drug use and property crime in the famously progressive city, the Wall Street Journal says. Meanwhile, California is reacting to White House prompts, and may tighten gun storage rules.

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Doctors Told To Conserve Tetanus Shots; Has Your Measles Vax Worn Off?

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

The CDC is urging physicians to switch from the Td vaccine to the Tdap vaccine whenever possible because of a shortage risk prompted by MassBiologics’ decision to discontinue production of its Td vaccine, CBS News reported. Also: updates on the measles, chikungunya, and flu vaccines.

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Morning Briefing for Thursday, February 29, 2024

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Covid and measles shots, IVF access, abortion rates, Biden’s physical, weight-loss drugs, drug use, microplastics, and more are in the news.

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Congress Reaches Deal To Buy More Time To Finalize Spending Agreement

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

Congressional leaders have reached agreement on a stopgap bill that will extend two-tier federal funding deadlines to March 8 and March 22, in an effort to secure enough time to finalize the spending deal that’s been secured “in principle.”

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Republican Senator Blocks Bill To Protect IVF Nationwide

February 29, 2024 Morning Briefing

A bill introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, was blocked Wednesday by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican from Mississippi. The legislation would have provided federal protections for in vitro fertilization treatments. The Biden campaign linked the move to former President Donald Trump, arguing that he would have urged Republicans to pass it if he truly supported IVF access.

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