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Caregivers Bring Lawsuit Against Department Of Veterans Affairs

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

The lawsuit addresses the practice of dropping family caregiver application appeals once a veteran dies from military-related illnesses. The caregivers want to receive compensation for the time they provided care. Plus: Medicaid cuts, insurance denials, and more.

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Berkshire Hathaway Gobbles Up $1.6B In Shares Of UnitedHealth Group

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

The disclosure in a filing Thursday gave a much-needed boost to the beleaguered health insurance giant, which saw shares jump as much as 9.6% in post-market trading. In other news: Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife are giving $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute — the largest known single gift to a U.S. university, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Updated Blood Pressure Guidelines Frown On Alcohol Consumption

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

The guidelines, released Thursday, encourage doctors to recommend healthy lifestyle changes as a first course of action for the first three to six months before prescribing medication. Meanwhile, a study in China shows a link between lower blood pressure and a 15% lower risk of dementia.

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Fourth Person Dies From Legionnaires’ Disease In New York Outbreak

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

The bacteria has been found in 12 cooling towers on 10 buildings, including a city-run hospital and a sexual health clinic. Also, New York is seeing a rise in congenital syphilis cases, with three infant deaths this year alone. Other news comes out of Mississippi, Texas, Colorado, Idaho, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. Today’s selections are on the presidential fitness test, Amtrak, 7Up, nurdles, and more.

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Morning Briefing for Friday, August 15, 2025

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

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HHS Reinstates Defunct Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

In an effort to satisfy the demands of anti-vaccine activists, HHS announced Thursday that the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines will be restored. Experts are worried this move will undermine confidence in childhood vaccines.

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Trump’s Wide Birth Control Mandate Exemptions Went Too Far, Judge Finds

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

The moral and religious carve-outs to contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act were deemed arbitrary, capricious, and an overreach of the administration’s authority, The Hill reports. Separately, scientists want to study mifepristone’s potential for breast cancer prevention but can’t.

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Recortes a Medicaid impactarían muy fuerte en esta comunidad rural de Colorado

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio August 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

La región es una de las más pobres del estado. En el condado de Alamosa, 2 de cada 5 residentes están inscritos en Health First Colorado, el programa estatal de Medicaid.

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First Edition: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025

August 15, 2025 Morning Briefing

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

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Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

By Julie Appleby August 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Insurers will take drug costs, frequency of use, and other factors into account as they set premium amounts for the 2026 plan year.

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Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

By Scott Maucione, WYPR August 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The state is using an old source of funding to pay for a new money crunch: assisting out-of-state patients with the costs associated with abortion.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump Further Politicizes Science

August 14, 2025 Podcast

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order about science and medicine seeks to take funding decisions out of the hands of career scientists and give them to political appointees instead. And a gunman, reportedly disgruntled over covid vaccines, shoots at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a law enforcement officer. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Aaron Carroll, president and CEO of the health services research group AcademyHealth, about how to restore the public’s trust in public health.

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Brain-Eating Amoeba Case Reported In Missouri; West Nile Spikes In Chicago

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

The rare and mostly fatal amebic infection happens when a parasite enters the body of someone swimming in warm water. Also, the stratus covid variant is surging in 12 states.

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Research Roundup: The Latest Science, Discoveries, And Breakthroughs

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

Each week, KFF Health News compiles a selection of the latest health research and news.

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Viewpoints: CDC Shooting Shows The Dark Side Of Disinformation; United States’ Scientific Loss Is France’s Gain

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers tackle these public health topics.

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Billions In Foreign Aid Can Remain Frozen Or Terminated, Court Rules

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

A federal appeals panel voted 2-to-1 against a group of international aid groups, ruling they did not have the legal standing to bring a lawsuit. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has ordered a six-month stockpile of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients; drug companies have formed a group to present research on the negative effects of Medicare drug price negotiations; and more.

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Effort To Halt Use Of mRNA Vaccines Also Puts Cancer Vaccine At Risk

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

Scientists are warning people that it isn’t just covid vaccines that will be affected. In other vaccine news: RFK Jr.’s criticisms of the hepatitis B vaccine; updates on Vinay Prasad; and successful results from the HPV vaccine rollout, and more.

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Ending Resistance, Mars Reveals It Will Make Naturally Colored M&Ms, Skittles

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

Mars Wrigley Inc. made the announcement without fanfare on its website many weeks ago — two days after meeting with FDA Chief Marty Makary, Bloomberg reported. The company will unveil “options made without FD&C colors” next year.

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NY Man Charged In Cyberstalking Of Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Relative

August 14, 2025 Morning Briefing

The man is accused of making repeated threatening calls to Brian Thompson’s family member. He is due in court today. Other news is about a Mission Health settlement, reduced workforces at Providence and CentraCare, and Oracle’s EHR platform.

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