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A positive pregnancy test rests on top of multiple $100 bills.

Si eres pobre, un tratamiento de fertilidad suele ser un sueño inaccesible

By Michelle Andrews February 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Pero las personas con ingresos más bajos, a menudo de minorías, tienen más probabilidades de estar cubiertas por Medicaid o por seguros limitados que no tienen esta cobertura.

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The Supreme Court Confronts a Public Health Challenge: Homeless Encampments

By Angela Hart February 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Homelessness is a soaring public health crisis, with a record 653,000 unhoused people in the United States, according to federal estimates. Tent and recreational vehicle encampments have exploded in recent years, crowding streets and sidewalks from Portland, Ore., to New York. In California, where roughly a third of all the nation’s homeless people live, doctors […]

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Stroke, Heart Attack Risks Rise For Any Marijuana Use: Study

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Consuming marijuana via smoking, vaping, or edibles was linked to higher risks even if the person had no previous conditions and didn’t use tobacco, a new study found. Meanwhile, the FDA may roll out a new “healthy” logo to promote food products that really are healthy.

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Family Applied For Exemption, But Insulin Pump Came With Huge Bill

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Read recent pharmaceutical developments in KFF Health News’ Prescription Drug Watch roundup.

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Perspectives: Prior Auths Create Dangerous Hurdles To Medication Access; Stylists Receive PrEP Education

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Read recent commentaries about pharmaceutical issues.

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Viewpoints: More Research Needed To Know If Cannabis Is Actually Healthy; Where is The Measles Outrage?

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers tackle cannabis, measles, heart disease, and more.

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Analysts: Weight Loss Drugs Could Lift US Economy By A Trillion Dollars

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Goldman Sachs analysts suggested in a report that because poor health hurts the economy, better health outcomes thanks to drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic could thus boost economic output. Separately, a new study shows Americans are doubtful the drugs can fix the obesity epidemic.

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California Seized Record Fentanyl: More Than Enough To Kill Everyone On Earth

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

California confiscated a 62,000 pounds of fentanyl at its ports of entry in 2023 — “enough to potentially kill the global population nearly twice over,” Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said Tuesday — and up from 28,000 pounds seized the year before.

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Indiana Ban On Gender Care For Trans Minors Can Take Effect: Ruling

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

A federal appeals court ruled that Indiana can indeed block young transgender people from accessing hormone and puberty blocker treatments, which form part of gender care, undoing a lower court decision that had blocked the law. Also in the news: pain and suffering jury award caps.

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Antitrust Regulators Say PBMs Have Failed To Disclose Requested Info

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

An inquiry by the FTC into the role of pharmacy benefit managers on prescription drug costs has been stymied so far as the companies involved have not produced requested documents, Stat reports. In related news, advocates for PBM reform continue to push for measures that look to be dropped from the government spending package.

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Florida Surgeon General Criticized Over Measles Outbreak Handling

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

Dr. Joseph Ladapo “politicizes public health and peddles risky freedom of choice rhetoric” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, criticizing the handling of the measles outbreak by her state’s surgeon general. Meanwhile, another case was reported at a Florida elementary school.

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UnitedHealth Under Antitrust Investigation By DOJ: Report

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department has opened an antitrust probe into health care giant United Health. Investigators have been questioning competitors about the the company’s doctor group acquisitions.

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Morning Briefing for Wednesday, February 28, 2024

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

IVF, hearing aids, insulin costs, PBMs, fentanyl, antitrust investigations, measles, marijuana use, and more are in the news.

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Senate Democrats Plan Speedy Action In Defense Of IVF Treatments

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

“I warned that red states would come for IVF — and now they have,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat. The group is pushing Republican colleagues to not block a bill that would preserve access to IVF technology. Axios also reports that President Joe Biden’s next moves on IVF may be limited.

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First Edition: Feb. 28, 2024

February 28, 2024 Morning Briefing

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

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Close-up of senior woman holding a hearing aid.

Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary

By Judith Graham February 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Hearing loss is more than a nuisance. It also raises the risk of cognitive decline, dementia, falls, depression, and social isolation.

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An Arm and a Leg: Wait, Is Insulin Cheaper Now?

By Dan Weissmann February 28, 2024 Podcast

Did the price of insulin go down? It’s not quite that simple. On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” producer Emily Pisacreta explores recent changes to the cost of the diabetes medication.

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A diverse group of unrecognizable medical practitioners wearing scrubs listen to a lecture and take notes.

California Lawsuit Spotlights Broad Legal Attack on Anti-Bias Training in Health Care

By Ronnie Cohen February 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

State laws requiring doctor training on how bias affects treatment violate teachers’ right to free speech, opponents say.

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Viewpoints: We Can Learn Lesson From Italy’s Disastrous IVF Restrictions; Palliative Psychiatry Has Benefits

February 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers tackle the IVF ruling and palliative psychiatry,

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Lubricant Eye Ointments Are Recalled Because Of Infection Risk

February 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

CBS News reports on the recall, which involves four products under the brands Equate, CVS Health and AACE Pharmaceuticals. Also in the news: New Zealand will repeal its tobacco ban, what eating disorder experts want to know about weight-loss drugs, and more.

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