Morning Briefing: Monday, August 1, 2022
Monday's roundup covers covid subvariants, reinfections, Medicare, burn pits, monkeypox, abortion laws, health worker shortages, and more.
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Morning Briefing: Monday, November 14, 2022
Monday's roundup covers covid reinfection risks, variants, flu surge, abortion, youth mental health, Alzheimer's, drug costs, and more.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, February 9, 2023
Today's roundup covers Medicare, fentanyl, abortion access, covid treatments and variants, autism, medical shortages, and more.
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Minister for Seniors at Famed Church Confronts Ageism and the Shame It Brings
Lynn Casteel Harper, a minister at the interdenominational Riverside Church in New York City, discusses the spiritual dimension of aging.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Tuesday's roundup covers abortion laws, the spending bill, Medicare payments, monkeypox, covid, vaccines, ACA premiums, and more.
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What Will It Take to Boost Vaccinations? The Scene From Kentucky’s Back Roads
With Kentucky in the grip of a covid surge, public health workers are taking their vaccination campaign house to house and church to church, trying to outmaneuver the fantastical tales spread on social media and everyday hurdles of hardship and isolation.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Thursday's roundup covers hunger, diet-based diseases, hospitals' hurricane responses, covid, monkeypox, Alzheimer's, drug misuse, and more.
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Déjà Vu? Consumers Scramble for Covid Tests in Hard-Hit Areas
As the nation confronts the delta variant, many consumers are again facing delays getting tested. The problem appears most acute in the South and Midwest, where new infections are growing the fastest.
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Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents
Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.
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Have Vaccines, Will Travel: On the Road With a Covid Entrepreneur
While many businesses scaled back at the height of the pandemic, one Montana man used covid-19 to open his own mobile pharmacy. He’s now bringing covid shots to Montana’s vaccine deserts while filling his wallet. But he cannot fill all the vaccination gaps.
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Scientists Examine Kids’ Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid
Doctors are trying to figure out why some kids become much sicker than others and, in rare cases, don’t survive.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Tuesday's roundup covers clashes on abortion, global pandemic response, covid vaccines, hospital safety, mental health, drug costs, and more.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, December 10, 2021
Friday's roundup covers omicron, vaccines, boosters, Medicare, Obamacare, insurance payouts, mask mandates and more. Plus, weekend reads.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, May 27, 2022
Friday's roundup covers vaccines, baby formula, guns, telehealth, covid cases, treatments, drug prices, and more. Plus, weekend reads.
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Doctors Weigh Pros and Cons of Prescribing Hot-Button Alzheimer’s Drug
The potential benefits of Aduhelm are small, its effectiveness is not certain, and even the FDA Thursday shifted its guidance on who should get the drug. But physicians are dealing with an onslaught of interest from patients and their families, and figuring out which patients are best positioned to be helped by the drug will be difficult.
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Morning Briefing: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Today's roundup covers uninsured rate drop, Kansas abortion referendum, Biden admin lawsuit, Medicare, covid, healthiest states, and more.
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Morning Briefing: Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Wednesday's roundup covers covid boosters, BA.2 cases, masks, disparities, abortion, allergies, insurance gaps, drug costs, and more.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, January 27, 2022
Thursday's roundup covers Breyer's retirement, omicron's dominance, covid deaths, vaccines, mental health, insulin costs, HIV and more.
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Corporations Encourage Employee Vaccination but Stop Short of Mandates
Public health officials fear that requiring jabs on the job would create a noisy, counterproductive backlash.
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As Covid Vaccinations Slow, Parts of the US Remain Far Behind 70% Goal
Vermont and Massachusetts lead the nation, with more than 70% of adults having had at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. Southern states like Tennessee lag far behind.