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First Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

September 3, 2024 Morning Briefing

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

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UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis

By Ronnie Cohen September 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

UC-San Francisco is pausing its long-running master’s program in nurse-midwifery and plans to shift to a lengthier, costlier doctoral program. Midwives criticized the move and questioned the university’s motivations at a time of serious shortages of maternal care workers.

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Watch: Tips on Finding a Good Nursing Home

By Jordan Rau Video by Hannah Norman September 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News’ Jordan Rau explains how to tell the good nursing homes from the bad ones.

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Universidad favorece un costoso programa de doctorado para enfermeras parteras en plena crisis de la atención materna

By Ronnie Cohen September 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

El cambio duplicará con creces el costo para los estudiantes. Expertos dicen que aumentará la escasez de estos profesionales de salud.

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Case Confirmed In Houston County, Texas

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

As Texas animal health officials urge vets and owners to vaccinate horses against the mosquito-borne virus, officials in Massachusetts begin spraying in hopes of curbing the spread of the disease. West Nile virus, bird flu, and mpox also are in the news.

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Viewpoints: Wealthy Countries Must Stop Hoarding Vaccines; Is AI The Answer To Health Care Inequality?

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers tackle these public health topics.

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Democrats Celebrated At Convention, And Some Went Home With Covid

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Members of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ campaign staff are among those fighting the virus. People aren’t letting the virus keep them down, The New York Times reports: Folks are shunning covid protocols.

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Northwell Health Promises 5 Years Of Birth Services At Connecticut Hospital

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

In the wake of an antitrust probe into Northwell Health’s merger with Nuvance Health, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has reached an agreement with Northwell to preserve labor and delivery services for five years at Sharon Hospital. In other news, McLaren Health Care says it’s recovered from a cyberattack earlier this month.

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San Francisco Offers Antipsychotic Drugs To Unhoused Meth Users

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

In extending aid to help users deal with symptoms like paranoia and delusions, the city hopes to reduce pressure on psych emergency services. Other reports shine a light on how wastewater monitoring could be used to track drug use in the country.

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Morning Briefing for Tuesday, August 27, 2024

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Open enrollment, opioid settlement funds, Medicare Advantage overbilling, weight loss drugs, extreme heat, mosquito-borne diseases, and more

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CMS Designates $100M For Navigators To Aid 2025 Open Enrollment

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will distribute the money to 44 organizations in 28 states that work on outreach and help people to sign up for health insurance during open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

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2,325 People Died From Heat Last Year, Mostly In The Desert Southwest

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

The lead author of the report, which was published Monday in JAMA, told USA Today that the deaths were overwhelmingly concentrated in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas. The death toll is likely an undercount.

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Planned Parenthood Files Complaints Against Missouri’s Medicaid Law

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Missouri Planned Parenthoods are challenging a new law in Missouri that bans any funding — including for preventive care like cancer screenings or pap smears — from going to the reproductive health care organization. Related news comes from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and elsewhere.

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Eli Lilly To Offer Lower Cost, Low-Dose Zepbound; It Comes With Conditions

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Patients will have to fill their own vials before they give themselves shots. They also will have to order supplies directly from the company, and they’ll have to pay in cash. Separately, researchers find GLP-1 drugs may work differently than they thought.

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First Edition: Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024

August 27, 2024 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Note to readers: KFF Health News’ First Edition will not be published for the rest of the week. Look for it again in your inbox on Tuesday. Have a nice Labor Day weekend!

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Public Voices Often Ignored in States’ Opioid Settlement Money Decisions

By Aneri Pattani and Henry Larweh and Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In many places, victims of the opioid epidemic are silenced in decision-making about how to use opioid settlement money, a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by KFF Health News and Spotlight PA found.

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With Only Gloves To Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu

By Rae Ellen Bichell August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A Colorado picnic celebrated Farmworker Appreciation Day. But some dairy workers there said they aren’t feeling appreciated: They don’t have basic protective gear, even as bird flu spreads through area farms.

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An Arm and a Leg: Don’t Get ‘Bullied’ Into Paying What You Don’t Owe

By Dan Weissmann August 27, 2024 Podcast

In this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann speaks with Caitlyn Mai, a woman in Oklahoma who received a six-figure bill for a surgery her insurance promised to cover. This episode is an extended version of the “Bill of the Month” series, produced in partnership with NPR.

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Feds Killed Plan To Curb Medicare Advantage Overbilling After Industry Opposition

By Fred Schulte August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A private 2014 decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services faces new scrutiny in a multibillion-dollar Justice Department fraud case against UnitedHealth Group.

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Trabajadores dicen que cuidan a vacas enfermas en medio de la gripe aviar usando solo guantes

By Rae Ellen Bichell August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

En Colorado, los departamentos de Salud y Agricultura dan equipos de protección gratis. Pero dicen que hasta ahora solo el 13% de los productores en tambos los han solicitado.

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