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Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems

By Brett Kelman September 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, serves patients in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

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Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed

By Sarah Varney September 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Federal law requires states to provide pregnancy-related Medicaid coverage through 60 days after delivery. Arkansas has not expanded what’s called postpartum Medicaid coverage, an option that gives poor women uninterrupted health insurance for a year after they give birth.

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California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers

By Don Thompson September 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices. The bill sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom would require pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed in California and would ban some business practices. Newsom vetoed a previous effort three years ago.

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Tune In: Our ‘Silence In Sikeston’ Project Is Now Available

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

A multimedia reporting project from KFF Health News, Retro Report, and GBH’s WORLD explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting in the same rural Missouri community.

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Viewpoints: Pregnancy Study Is A Step Toward Closing Egregious Scientific Gap; The Deadly Toll Of Abortion Bans

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers examine these public health issues.

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Judge Reduces Sentence Of Paramedic Present At Elijah McClain’s Death

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

A paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain has had his sentence reduced to probation. McClain died after police put him in a chokehold and paramedics injected him with sedatives. Among other news: Samaritan Health Services lays off 1% of its workforce.

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Mom Brain: Few Areas Of The Brain Are ‘Untouched’ By Pregnancy

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

CNN reports on a new study that maps brain changes during pregnancy. Also in research news: the chemical toll of food packaging on our bodies; microplastics at the base of the brain; and more.

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Senate Expected To Vote Today On IVF Bill

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Democrat-led measure is in line with what GOP nominee Donald Trump has said he wanted: “Your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment.” Also in women’s health news: hormone therapy, STI rates, and more.

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Instagram Unveils Changes To Improve Child Safety, Mental Health

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Meta-owned app will make accounts private for its users who are younger than 18. The company also will halt notifications during typical nighttime rest hours and limit sensitive content.

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Newest Covid XEC Variant Is Already Here, Likely Will Drive Winter Surge

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

As health officials urge Americans to vaccinate themselves against the highly transmissible virus, a survey finds that fewer than half of respondents plan to take the jab. Separately, after last year’s supply problems, drugmakers got the green light to expand capacity for making RSV therapy.

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Report: Top Republicans Want To Halt Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

Axios reports that multiple high-ranking GOP lawmakers said that if Donald Trump wins the election, Republicans might attempt to dismantle the popular price reductions over concerns about pharmaceutical innovation.

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Industrial Chemical BTMPS Found In Fentanyl Across US, Raising Alarm

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

The rapid infusion of the chemical, used in plastic products, into the fentanyl supply is raising significant concern among health researchers. Also: The Washington Post examines how Purdue’s global counterparts are still profiting from the sale of opioids, and more.

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Bill Aims To Remove Weapons From Service Members Deemed A Threat

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

The measure, sponsored by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, was introduced after a mass shooting in Maine and would require the Army to take action using state crisis intervention laws. Separately, AP says police have increased use of Maine’s “yellow flag” law to seize weapons.

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Global Antibiotic Resistance Predicted To Get Worse By 2050

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

An estimated 39 million people might die because superbugs are able to evade medications designed to save them from disease, researchers say. Could phage therapy be the cure we need?

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Morning Briefing for Tuesday, September 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

First Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

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

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Silence in Sikeston: Hush, Fix Your Face

By Cara Anthony September 17, 2024 Podcast

In Episode 2 of the “Silence in Sikeston” podcast, host Cara Anthony speaks with Sikeston, Missouri, resident Larry McClellon, who grew up being told not to talk about the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright. He is determined to break the cycle of silence in his community. Anthony also unearths a secret in her own family and grapples with the possible effects of intergenerational trauma.

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Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart

By Cara Anthony September 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film explores how the nation’s first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from KFF Health News and Retro Report explores the lasting impact of such trauma — and what it means to speak out about it.

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Historic Numbers of Americans Live by Themselves as They Age

By Judith Graham September 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Longer life spans, rising rates of divorce, widowhood, and childlessness, and smaller, far-flung families are fueling a “gray revolution” in older adults’ living arrangements. It can have profound health consequences.

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La vejez en soledad, así vive un número histórico de estadounidenses

By Judith Graham September 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Más de 16 millones de estadounidenses viven solos mientras envejecen. Sorprendentemente, se sabe muy poco sobre sus experiencias.

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