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EPA Report: Formaldehyde Presents Unreasonable Human Health Risk

January 6, 2025 Morning Briefing

Yet ProPublica reports that the EPA “downplayed the threat the chemical poses to people living near industrial plants.” Separately, the post-holiday sick season is in full swing, as CDC data show that 40 states are reporting high or very high levels of illness. Also: early physical therapy for concussions; hydration; and more.

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Morning Briefing for Monday, January 6, 2025

January 6, 2025 Morning Briefing

KFF Health News is on Instagram and TikTok! Watch our videos and follow along as we break down health care headlines and policy.

First Edition: Monday, Jan. 6, 2024

January 6, 2025 Morning Briefing

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

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Listen: NPR and KFF Health News Explore How Racism and Violence Hurt Health

By Cara Anthony January 6, 2025 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings.

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Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

By Michelle Andrews January 6, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don’t face the same kinds of coverage challenges.

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Habitat Health’s PACE Center Is Ready To Receive Participants In Sacramento

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

The Medicare-Medicaid program provides health care services, meals, and social interaction for older adults. Habitat Health also plans to open a facility in Los Angeles in 2026. More news comes from New Hampshire, Florida, North Carolina, and elsewhere.

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Viewpoints: Biden Administration Moving Too Slowly On Bird Flu; Health Care Industry Must Be Less Greedy

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers tackle these public health issues.

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Morning Briefing for Friday, January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Cancer warning on alcohol, opioid epidemic’s ‘fourth wave,’ bird flu, weight loss drugs, health care startups, kidney stones in kids, and more.

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Surgeon General Wants Alcohol To Carry Cancer Warning Labels

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday that warns that alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths in the U.S., after tobacco and obesity.

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Safety Measures Added For Farmers Seeking Bird Flu Reimbursement

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Farmers will now have to prove that they did everything possible to prevent outbreaks before they can receive governmental indemnity payments. Also in the news: President Joe Biden nearly doubles funds to fend off H5N1; Norovirus cases surge; and more.

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Eli Lilly Wants to Join Lawsuit Over Compounded Weight-Loss Drugs

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

The lawsuit was brought against the FDA after the agency declared an end to the shortage that allowed pharmacies to sell compound versions of the popular weight loss drugs, but Eli Lilly said it cannot rely on the FDA to protect its interests. Other news is on the surge of GLP-1 use; insurance coverage of obesity medicine; and more.

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States Enact Laws To Protect Reproductive Health Data

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Many laws have been put in place to protect individuals’ reproductive health data and to keep it from being used to incriminate patients or target providers. Reuters explores the concern about the use of data obtained through “geofencing.”

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Certificate-Of-Need Law Hampers Health Care Start-Ups

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

The law is supposed to prevent market saturation by requiring proof of need for the services in a community, but it also allows competitors to challenge newcomers and prevent them from entering the market. A lawsuit in Nebraska is challenging that law.

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‘Speckles’ Within Cancerous Tumors Can Determine Best Treatments

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Meanwhile, increased rates of cancer in the under 50 crowd may be caused by gut issues; certain foods, including licorice, may help covid patients; Neumora Therapeutics depression treatment fails trials; and more.

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DNA Or Diet? Maybe Both. Number Of Kids With Kidney Stones Is Up

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

Medical experts have seen a significant increase in the number of children suffering from kidney stones. Some doctors think a diet full of over-processed and sodium-rich foods might be to blame.

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First Edition: Friday, Jan. 3, 2025

January 3, 2025 Morning Briefing

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

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Syringe Exchange Fears Hobble Fight Against West Virginia HIV Outbreak

By Taylor Sisk January 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health workers and researchers say an HIV outbreak in West Virginia that three years ago was called “the most concerning” in the U.S. continues to spread after state and local officials restricted syringe service programs.

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Stimulant Users Are Caught in Fatal ‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic

By Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio January 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular opioid users. That’s because they have a low tolerance for opioids, putting them at greater risk of an overdose. They also often don’t take precautions — such as not using alone and carrying the opioid reversal medication naloxone — so they’re unprepared if they overdose.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Francis Collins on Supporting NIH and Finding Common Ground

January 2, 2025 Podcast

Francis Collins led the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, under three presidents. During the Biden administration, he added White House science adviser to his long list of roles. Now he runs his own lab on the NIH campus, and his latest book, “The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust,” came out in September. In this special holiday episode of KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” Collins joins host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss health misinformation, the Trump administration’s plans for the NIH, and bringing together a fractured society.

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UnitedHealth Doctors Got Diagnoses Checklists To Boost Medicare Payouts

January 2, 2025 Morning Briefing

The Wall Street Journal reports how UnitedHealth provided lists of potential, often obscure diagnoses to its doctors and forced them to weigh in on them for each Medicare Advantage patient, in order to capitalize on the government system that pays private insurers based on how sick doctors say a patient is.

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