Morning Briefing: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Thursday's roundup covers vaccine boosters, opioid deaths, covid rising, mandates, drug pricing, mental health, antibody drugs and more.
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Thursday's roundup covers vaccine boosters, opioid deaths, covid rising, mandates, drug pricing, mental health, antibody drugs and more.
Colorado is one of many states resolved not to wait for federal action to reduce drug costs. Its legislature is considering several ways to lower costs for consumers and the state.
Tuesday's roundup covers court confirmation hearing, pandemic aid funds, BA.2 subvariant, covid link to diabetes, vaccines, hunger, and more.
Wednesday's roundup covers covid vaccines, subvariants, drug prices, gun violence, abortion, monkeypox, extreme heat, suicides, and more.
Dentists know how to maximize the profits in your mouth. But sometimes it’s outright fraud — to the tune of billions every year.
Tuesday's roundup cover nursing home safety, covid infections, vaccines, mask rules, abortion, Medicaid, opioids, birth rates and more.
Across Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, where death rates from stroke are above the national average, routing patients from rural areas to the right level of care can be an intricate jigsaw puzzle. The closest hospital might not offer the full scope of stroke treatments, but hospitals with more advanced care could be hours away.
Even as the nation has moved on to vaccinating everyone 16 and older, the vast majority of people homebound due to frailty or age — and among the most vulnerable to covid’s devastation — have not yet been vaccinated. California offers a sharp lens on the challenges.
This Monday's edition features full coverage of the Supreme Court's abortion decision, as well as news on covid, monkeypox, Juul, and more.
Thursday's roundup covers abortion laws, birth control access, covid vaccines, the spending bill, drug pricing, monkeypox, and more.
Responsible for 34% of the nation’s covid death toll, nursing homes and long-term care facilities get slammed by their investors and are told to change.
The covid pandemic and President Joe Biden's agenda — a planned $400 billion infusion of support — have focused national attention on the need to expand home- and community-based long-term care services designed to keep people out of nursing homes. But the need far outpaces the staffing.
Monday's roundup covers vaccine mandates, omicron cases, strained hospitals, covid worker shortages, testing, variants, treatments and more.
In one northwestern Montana county where demand for covid vaccines is dropping well before widespread immunity is reached, people are split on whether the virus is a threat.
Monday's roundup covers clashes over abortion law, predicted winter covid surge, vaccines, hepatitis, teen suicide, NIH, and more.
Monday's roundup covers 900,000 covid deaths, health care hiring, boosters, testing, FDA nomination, school nutrition, autism and more.
Tuesday's roundup covers the ACA, CDC revamp plan, covid funds, vaccines, variants, Supreme Court, Medicare, abortion, marijuana, and more.
Public health officials fear that requiring jabs on the job would create a noisy, counterproductive backlash.
Tuesday's roundup covers state reopenings, masks, delta variant, vaccine rates, abortion, hospital prices, health CEO pay and more.
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