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- Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don鈥檛 Meet Them.
- Unsheltered People Are Losing Medicaid in Redetermination Mix-Ups
- California Legislators Debate Froot Loops and Free Condoms
- Political Cartoon: 'On the Other Hand...'
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Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don鈥檛 Meet Them.
The staffing regulation was disparaged by the industry as unattainable. Patient advocates say it doesn鈥檛 go far enough. Labor unions welcomed the requirement. (Jordan Rau, )
Unsheltered People Are Losing Medicaid in Redetermination Mix-Ups
Some of the nearly 130,000 Montanans who have lost Medicaid coverage as the state reevaluates eligibility are homeless. That鈥檚 in part because Montana kicked more than 80,000 people off the program for technical reasons rather than income ineligibility. For unhoused people who were disenrolled, getting back on Medicaid can be extraordinarily difficult. (Aaron Bolton, MTPR, )
California Legislators Debate Froot Loops and Free Condoms
California state lawmakers this year are continuing their progressive tilt on health policy, debating bills banning an ingredient in Froot Loops and offering free condoms for high schoolers. (Don Thompson, )
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Summaries Of The News:
Nursing Homes Slam Staffing Rule: 'How Can [We] Hire More RNs When They Do Not Exist?'
The Biden administration on Monday finalized a mandate for nursing homes to hire more nurses and aides, 素人色情片Health News and others reported. Providers balked at the rule, saying it will siphon workers from other long-term care settings and only adds to the worker shortage from the pandemic.
Despite minor concessions in a nursing home staffing mandate issued Monday, many providers were stunned by federal regulators鈥 intractable stance on minimums at a time when nearly all US facilities are confronting labor shortages. ... 鈥淩Ns are leaving the workforce, leaving the profession and those who are working typically choose to work in environments that are not long-term care,鈥 LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan said in a statement late Monday. 鈥淭he final rule does not include additional funds to pay RNs comparable or higher wages to work in long-term care.鈥 She noted that this element alone will require an additional 3,267 additional nursing home RNs. 鈥淗ow can providers hire more RNs when they do not exist?鈥 (Marselas, 4/23)
A federal nursing home staffing mandate will siphon workers from assisted living and other long-term care settings, in the long run limiting access to care and services, according to senior living experts reacting to Monday鈥檚 issuance of the finalized rule. ... 鈥淎 federal mandate to hire more workers will not create more workers,鈥 American Seniors Housing Association Vice President of Government Affairs Jeanne McGlynn Delgado told McKnight鈥檚 Senior Living. 鈥淎nd without additional funding to subsidize this new requirement, it sets up the system for failure.鈥 (Bonvissuto, 4/23)
素人色情片Health News:
Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don鈥檛 Meet Them
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides 鈥 while giving them years to do so. The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation鈥檚 roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to provide high-quality care. (Rau, 4/22)
Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Monday to announce two final rules aimed at improving access to long-term care and ensuring the quality of care-giving jobs, a White House official said. The White House said Monday's announcements finalized two rules first announced in September as part of U.S. President Joe Biden's pledge to crack down on nursing homes that endanger resident safety, and to improve access to high-quality care. (Shalal, 4/22)
In other nursing home news 鈥
A research letter published today in JAMA Network Open suggests that US states and territories that had more policies aimed at reducing COVID-19 rates in nursing homes (NHs) and home healthcare agencies (HHAs) didn't necessarily have a lower burden of the disease. "For example, on May 24, 2020, Montana, Hawaii, and Alaska had no COVID-19 deaths or policies, in contrast with North Carolina's moderate burden and several policies," the researchers wrote. "By January 12, 2021, New York had a severe COVID-19 burden and the greatest number of policies, while Pennsylvania, Montana, and Florida had a similar COVID-19 burden but fewer policies." (Van Beusekom, 4/22)
A Knoxville nursing facility owes former residents, their representatives and the state of Tennessee more than $250,000 in overcharges, according to an investigation from the Tennessee Comptroller鈥檚 office. The facility, Creekview Health and Rehabilitation, reportedly 鈥渇ailed to manage and promptly refund accounts鈥 for 81 residents, totaling $265,671.42. The office said the errors came about mostly because Creekview did not properly log expenses, something the center claims to have addressed. (Morgan-Rumsey, 4/22)
HHS Props Up Privacy Protections For Abortion Patients And Providers
The new rule, in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, lets providers rebuff efforts from those who seek to use health care info in criminal cases. Meanwhile, doctors are keeping a close eye on a case before the Supreme Court that looks at EMTALA.
Biden officials are still pressing to shore up abortion protections amid an onslaught of legal challenges, one of which is slated for Supreme Court arguments this week. The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released a final rule that would put abortion services under the same federal privacy protections as other health care data covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. The rule effectively allows providers to deny access to health care data that could be used to prosecute people in abortion-restrictive states. (Owermohle, 4/22)
Dr. Lauren Miller used to cry every day on her way to work. A fetal maternal medicine specialist in Idaho, Miller despaired over the possibility she might be forced to tell patients she could not help them. Idaho has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, which means Miller could only perform abortions to save a woman鈥檚 life 鈥 and many patients, even those facing medical emergencies with potentially deadly consequences, were not yet sick enough to qualify. (Sherman, 4/23)
Every state abortion ban has an exception to save a mother鈥檚 life. But what qualifies as a life-threatening medical emergency in Texas may not be enough for a doctor in Idaho, and even hospitals within the same state can look at an identical case and reach different conclusions. The legal and medical murkiness has physicians around the country begging state officials to clarify when they can terminate pregnancies without risking legal peril. And as they await guidance from states, stories of pregnant patients turned away from hospitals in medical emergencies or forced to wait until their vitals crash have become emblematic of the confusion unleashed when the Supreme Court鈥檚 Dobbs decision ended the federal right to an abortion in 2022. (Ollstein and Messerly, 4/23)
On 'zombie' abortion laws 鈥
A political action group is launching a campaign to deny new terms to two of the state Supreme Court justices who voted to allow the 1864 law on abortion to once again be enforced in Arizona. The organization, called Progress Arizona, is also gearing up to kill a Republican legislator鈥檚 proposal to strip voters of the right to decide whether to retain judges in office or oust them. Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King, both appointees of former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, are on the statewide November ballot for retention. (Fischer, 4/22)
Archaic pieces of legislation are coming back to life as the fight over abortion access rages across the country ahead of the 2024 election.聽聽When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to ban nearly all abortions in the state, it did so by upholding an 1864 law 鈥 passed before Arizona was made a state 鈥 that made performing abortions a felony.聽There are at least five other states that have similar so-called 鈥渮ombie laws鈥 on the books, which could be used to restrict or ban abortions entirely. (Choi, 4/23)
How a second Trump administration could change abortion access 鈥
Seven months before the presidential election, Donald Trump鈥檚 health care priorities remain fuzzy at best. But one thing is certain: A second Trump administration would put its own stamp on a host of critical issues that are top of mind for voters. (Owermohle, 4/23)
As former President Donald Trump moves closer to selecting his running mate, a major Democratic abortion-rights advocacy group is taking his pool of vice presidential contenders to task over their records on reproductive rights.聽EMILY鈥檚 List, a group dedicated to electing Democratic candidates who back abortion rights, is focusing its annual 鈥淥n Notice鈥 list on Trump鈥檚 ever-evolving list of running mate contenders to highlight what it calls their 鈥渆xtreme anti-abortion agenda.鈥澛(Hernandez, 4/23)
On birth control 鈥
A year鈥檚 supply of contraception would have to be covered by the state鈥檚 private health insurers under a proposal that passed the Missouri House on Monday. Rep. Tara Peters, R-Rolla, who is sponsoring the bipartisan measure, has said that because Missouri is a non-abortion state, women should have the tools they need to prevent unintended pregnancy. (Pfeil, 4/22)
The Michigan Legislature is considering two bills that could make getting access to hormonal birth control a little easier. "We find ourselves in an OB-GYN kind of desert," said state Rep. Stephanie Young, one of the bill sponsors. "They're becoming harder and harder to locate, and when we know that we have pharmacists just up the street." (Meyers, 4/22)
A research lab in Flagstaff, Ariz., is trying to leverage a 1970s discovery into a safe and desirable alternative for men who want to prevent pregnancy. (Sevigny, 4/23)
CMS Enacts New Rules Meant To Boost Medicaid Payment Transparency
States and Medicaid insurers will be required to annually report how payments are spent, and at least 80% of Medicaid payments must go toward wages for home care services. CMS also ordered states to create 鈥渙ne-stop-shop鈥 websites so people can compare quality ratings.
Regulators enacted a pair of wide-reaching rules on Monday intended to increase transparency and improve the patient experience for the more than 80 million enrollees in Medicaid managed care plans.聽The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will require states and Medicaid insurers to annually report how carriers spend state-directed payments to providers, how their rates compare to Medicare, and survey managed care enrollees about their experience with insurance companies. (Tepper, 4/22)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hoping to improve Medicaid enrollees鈥 access to care through a final rule that better compensates caregiving roles. Under the final rule, at least 80% of Medicaid payments for home care services will go toward wages, according to a White House news release that included a controversial nursing home staffing rule. It also permits states to factor in the 鈥渦nique experiences that small home care providers and providers in rural areas face.鈥 (Tong, 4/22)
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Unsheltered People Are Losing Medicaid In Redetermination Mix-Ups
On a cold February morning at the Flathead Warming Center, Tashya Evans waited for help with her Medicaid application as others at the shelter got ready for the day in this northwestern Montana city. Evans said she lost Medicaid coverage in September because she hadn鈥檛 received paperwork after moving from Great Falls, Montana. She has had to forgo the blood pressure medication she can no longer pay for since losing coverage. She has also had to put off needed dental work. (Bolton, 4/23)
More Medicaid news 鈥
A bill renewing the federal reimbursement allowance taxes that fund Medicaid in Missouri is hung up in a factional fight among Republicans. (Keller, 4/22)
In Humphreys County, Mississippi ... a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful of health care clinics. The town鈥檚 only major hospital closed more than a decade ago, around the same time its catfish industry collapsed. Jobs in the area are scarce, said Wardell Walton, who was mayor of Belzoni from 2005 to 2013. But even if there were jobs, he said, a lot of Belzoni residents wouldn鈥檛 be able to get to them 鈥 they don鈥檛 own cars, and there is no public transportation. (Chatlani, 4/22)
From Nebraska to North Carolina, states with Republican-led legislatures have slowly moved toward expanding access to Medicaid for thousands of their residents. But some are still holding out. Medicaid provides health care to some 80 million Americans living on low-incomes. But millions more fall into the so-called "coverage gap" where they make too much money for Medicaid but not enough to get their own insurance. (Conlon and Hawkins, 4/22)
It's Likely Your Medical Data Was Stolen In UnitedHealth Hack
UnitedHealth Group said in a news release that stolen files obtained by hackers 鈥渃ould cover a substantial proportion of people in America.鈥 It has paid a ransom to try to prevent the data from being released. Also in the news: Cardinal Health; AI and patient safety; and more.
UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try and protect patient data, following the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The company also confirmed that files containing personal information were compromised in the breach. (Capoot, 4/22)
Cardinal Health said on Monday its contracts with UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx, one of its largest customers, will not be renewed after they expire at the end of June, sending the drug distributor's shares down about 6%. At least two analysts said rival McKesson would get Optum's contracts. McKesson did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. (Sunny, 4/22)
In other health industry news 鈥
In the early days of the pandemic, as social distancing forced patients out of doctors鈥 offices, health care organizations scrambled to offer care online. In turn, health care accreditation organizations rushed to tweak their standards, filling a void in best practices for virtual visits. (Palmer, 4/23)
Hospitals for the first time could be asked to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the federal health department. A new Medicare proposal to collect that data is a "game changer" for hospital efforts to fight climate change, the head of Health and Human Services' climate office told Axios. (Goldman, 4/22)
Louis Davenport left his fourth grade class at Independence Elementary on Wednesday and climbed onto a giant motorhome outside his school鈥檚 front door, where he now gets his recommended doctor visits for his type 1 diabetes. Inside, a test measuring the average amount of sugar in in his blood over the past three months 鈥 known as A1C 鈥 revealed his dropped nearly a whole percentage point since his last visit. (Munz, 4/22)
Memorial Hermann Health System said last week it would work with drone delivery system聽Zipline to bring specialty prescription and medical supply deliveries directly to patients' homes beginning in 2026. The Houston health care provider said it would be the first in the area to use this system, in which autonomous red-winged aircraft called Zips make deliveries in urban and suburban areas. (Mizan, 4/22)
In news about health workers 鈥
More than 100 Northern California nurses marched outside Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center on Monday to protest what they say is hospitals鈥 use of unproven artificial intelligence that could put patients at risk. Registered nurses represented by the California Nurses Association who work at Kaiser say Kaiser and other health care systems are rushing to implement AI technology but are not being transparent with nurses about what it鈥檚 being used for or how it benefits patients or staff. (Ho, 4/22)聽
A jury awarded more than $98 million to Providence Health and Services employees in a class action lawsuit over claims the health system illegally denied meal breaks and pay for time worked. King County Superior Court Judge Averil Rothrock, who presided over the case, also ruled Thursday that the health system willfully withheld wages, which under Washington state law could entitle workers to double the amount of damages awarded. (DeSilva, 4/22)
Hospitalized women are less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they are treated by female doctors, a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found.聽In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 days, compared with 8.38% of women treated by male physicians.聽Although the difference between the two groups seems small, the researchers say erasing the gap could save 5,000 women鈥檚 lives each year.聽(Szabo, 4/22)
Dr. Joel Breman, a specialist in infectious diseases who was a member of the original team that helped combat the Ebola virus in 1976, died on April 6 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 87. His death was confirmed by his son, Matthew, who said his father died of complications from kidney cancer. 鈥淲e were scared out of our wits,鈥 Dr. Breman, recollecting his pioneer mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola outbreak raged that year. (Nossiter, 4/22)
Hospitals Push For Medicare Advantage Boost To Cover 340B Drugs
Hospitals are arguing that since a Supreme Court ruling has reversed cuts made to 340B rates in 2018, Medicare Advantage reimbursement must be adjusted accordingly. Separately, a study shows drug representatives who meet with doctors have no effect on cancer patients' survival rates.
Hospitals鈥 fight to boost Medicare Advantage reimbursement has extended to plans' pay for 340B drugs. The hospitals鈥 plea to adjust Medicare Advantage pay stems from regulation aimed at making providers that participate in the drug discount program whole after the Supreme Court reversed 340B rate cuts that were in place from 2018 to 2022. (Kacik, 4/22)
When drug company reps visit doctors, it usually includes lunch or dinner and a conversation about a new drug. These direct-to-physician marketing interactions are tracked as payments in a public database, and a new study shows the meetings work. That is, doctors prescribe about five percent more oncology drugs following a visit from a pharmaceutical representative, according to the new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this month. But the researchers also found that the practice doesn't make cancer patients live longer. (Lupkin, 4/22)
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a new treatment for a type of bladder cancer. The treatment, which will be sold under the brand name Anktiva, is intended for some patients suffering from certain types of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, according to an FDA statement announcing the approval. (4/22)
A contaminated batch of Benylin Paediatric Syrup is no longer available in the African countries where it was sold, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Earlier this month, Nigeria recalled a batch of the children's cough and allergy medicine after tests found that it contained unacceptable levels of the toxin, diethylene glycol. Five other African countries have also pulled the product from shelves - Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa, where the drug was made. (4/22)
It鈥檚 been a busy six months for Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.聽The former Cigna executive came out of retirement last October to take the helm at one of the nation鈥檚 largest retail pharmacy chains, which employs 240,000 people and operates almost 9,000 stores across the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Walgreens estimates it has a store within 5 miles of 78% of consumers. (Hudson, 4/19)
Supreme Court May Lean Toward Laws That Ban Public Sleeping
A Supreme Court majority may support an Oregon city that banned sleeping or camping in public spaces in an effort to target homeless people. Protesters who are against moves to penalize homelessness gathered outside the court, concerned about the case's implications.
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared inclined on Monday to uphold a series of local ordinances that allowed a small Oregon city to ban homeless people from sleeping or camping in public spaces. The justices seemed split along ideological lines in the case, which has sweeping implications for how the country deals with a growing homelessness crisis. In a lengthy and, at times, fiery argument that lasted almost two and a half hours, questioning from the justices reflected the complexity of the homelessness debate. (VanSickle, 4/22)
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court, waving signs that read 鈥淗ousing Not Handcuffs鈥 and 鈥淗ousing Dignity鈥 as they protested moves to legally penalize homelessness while justices heard oral arguments on a case that experts say could change how the country treats its homeless people. (Swenson, 4/22)
The Christian Services Center on Thursday hosted a conference in which homeless services professionals, health care workers and community leaders made plans for shelter and housing ahead of the summer months. 鈥淗ousing is health care,鈥 said Warren Foster, program manager at Orange Blossom Family Health Center, a medical service center for people without homes. (Caraballo, 4/22)
On the gun violence epidemic 鈥
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Biden administration acted legally when it implemented a crackdown on the sale of do-it-yourself 鈥済host gun鈥 kits. The justices announced Monday that they will take up a regulation Attorney General Merrick Garland issued in 2022 that sought to consider such kits as firearms so they can鈥檛 be used to make untraceable weapons sold without background checks and frequently used in crimes. (Gerstein, 4/22)
Treating gunshot wounds on children was not what Mikael Petrosyan expected when he entered pediatrics. Petrosyan has been working as a pediatric surgeon at the Children's National Hospital for more than a decade, and he has treated many children injured by guns. ... "It's a devastating thing to do, to lose a child for something that has been caused by guns," Petrosyan said. "It's not an accident. It was totally preventable in many ways." (Adams and Martin, 4/19)
Indiana Eclipse-Watching Party Might Have Been A Measles Exposure Event
The gathering at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis on April 8 might have resulted in multiple people being exposed to measles, since an infected individual was in attendance. Meanwhile, a measles case in West Virginia is the first confirmed one in 15 years.
People who attended a total solar eclipse event at a children's museum in Indiana may have been exposed to measles, according to museum and health officials. An infected individual traveled to the event at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis on April 8 from out of state, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) said in a news release late Friday afternoon. (Kekatos, 4/22)
WVU Medicine says a patient in Monongalia County has tested positive for measles, the first confirmed case in the Mountain State in 15 years. The unidentified adult patient came to an outpatient clinic last week. The positive test for measles was confirmed Monday. The patient did not require hospitalization and is recovering at home. WVU Hospitals notified the Monongalia County Health Department which is monitoring the case including doing contact tracing. (Nolting, 4/22)
On disabilities and special needs 鈥
Soon, your employer may help cover your bills in case your kid gets seriously sick or disabled. A company called Juno said it's selling the first workplace benefit in the U.S. that kicks in cash assistance for caregiving-related expenses if a child develops a debilitating condition. (Reed, 4/22)
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States 鈥 about 11 percent of those ages 5 to 17 鈥 have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The report data was drawn from interviews, conducted in person and by phone from 2020 through 2022, with members of a representative sample of U.S. households. (Searing, 4/22)
In other health and wellness news 鈥
This summer, people across the U.S. will have a new way to keep track of dangerous heat headed their way through a new heat warning system called HeatRisk. The tool, developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will be used by National Weather Service offices across the country to give people an understanding of when heat goes from uncomfortable to dangerous. (Borunda, 4/22)
A study published Monday suggests that people in their mid-60s believe old age starts at 75 鈥 but the older people get, the later they think it begins.聽The research, published in the American Psychological Association鈥檚 Psychology and Aging journal, examined data from around 14,000 participants in the German Aging Survey, which studies old age as a stage of life in Germany. The participants were born between 1911 and 1974 and entered the survey at ages 40 to 85. (Bendix and Mogg, 4/22)
Nestl茅 adds more sugar to baby food sold in lower- and middle-income countries, while more affluent markets get healthier versions, according to a recent report released by a nonprofit group. The Swiss food giant鈥檚 products in lower-income countries contained up to 7.3 grams of added sugar per serving, while the same food sold in Europe often contained none, according to the findings of an investigation by Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), based on data from the market analysis company Euromonitor. (Jeong, 4/23)
Louisiana Schools Told To Disregard Title IX Rules For Trans Students
The Biden administration's new Title IX rules include more protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but Cade Brumley, Louisiana鈥檚 superintendent of education, contends those rules conflict with state laws.
Louisiana鈥檚 top education official on Monday instructed schools to ignore new Title IX rules unveiled by the Biden administration, warning that extending聽the civil rights law鈥檚 protections to transgender students may violate existing state and federal law. The Education Department last week聽issued a final set聽of sweeping changes to聽Title IX 鈥 which prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools 鈥 including聽an expanded definition of sex discrimination that聽includes sexual orientation and gender identity. In a letter sent Monday to school system leaders and board members, Cade Brumley, Louisiana鈥檚 superintendent of education, said the new Title IX rules likely conflict with Louisiana law, and schools 鈥渟hould not alter policies or procedures at this time.鈥 (Migdon, 4/22)
Medical facilities are increasingly turning to the expertise of health care architects, patients and their families, physicians, and nurses. UHealth has a growing volunteer group helping with design. (Zaragovia, 4/22)
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and local lawmakers kicked off a weeklong statewide tour in Belleville on Monday to promote a key legislative initiative that will end some health insurance practices they say hurt patients. The legislation, which passed the Illinois House last week and now awaits a vote in the Illinois Senate, is designed to curb insurance tactics used to control the amount and cost of care patients receive. (Bauer, 4/22)
A detox center. Aid for an overflowing jail. An extra detective鈥檚 salary. These are a few of the things people in Whitley County, Ky., would like to fund with their small share of billions of dollars in settlement money from companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis.聽But county leaders are confronting a dispiriting reality: The funds cover a fraction of their wish list. Some of their projects likely aren鈥檛 even eligible because of confusion over restrictions on how the money can be used. As a result, Whitley County鈥檚 funds are sitting unspent. (Campo-Flores and Kamp, 4/22)
San Luis Valley cattle rancher George Whitten was halfway through a mental health workshop when he let himself tally up a figure he had never wanted to know 鈥 the number of people in his life who had died by suicide.聽It was eight. (Brown, 4/22)
Outside A to Z Tobacco in Minneapolis on Sunday, Julio Lopez Ocotoxtle hit a fresh pack of cigarettes against his palm, loosening them up. He lit one up. If the Minneapolis City Council passes a measure set to be considered later this week, the price of those cigarettes could increase significantly 鈥 to a minimum price of $15 a pack. That鈥檚 up from $11.35 to $13.50 a pack for some brands being sold at the store earlier this week. (Spencer, 4/23)
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California Legislators Debate Froot Loops And Free Condoms
California state lawmakers this year are continuing their progressive tilt on health policy with dozens of proposals including a ban on a Froot Loops ingredient and free condoms for high schoolers. As states increasingly fracture along partisan lines, California Democrats are stamping their supermajority on legislation that they will consider until they adjourn at the end of August. But the cost of these proposals will be a major factor given the enormity of the state鈥檚 deficit, currently estimated at between $38 billion and $73 billion. (Thompson, 4/23)
Viewpoints: The US Is Ready To Tackle A Bird Flu Pandemic; Black Maternal Health Care Sorely Lacking
Editorial writers examine H5N1, disparities in maternal health care, gene therapy, and psychiatry.
While only two people in the United States have contracted this H5N1 strain of the avian flu (one last year and one this month), wider spread could be catastrophic, given that, in past outbreaks, the disease has killed one of every two people who are infected. (Leana S. Wen, 4/23)
The bird flu outbreak at US dairy farms keeps finding alarming new ways to surprise scientists. Last week, the US Department of Agriculture confirmed that H5N1 is spreading not just from birds to herds, but among cows. Meanwhile, media reports suggest an unknown number of cows are asymptomatic. (Lisa Jarvis, 4/22)
When I was carrying my youngest son, I had to rush to the emergency room as I experienced critical, preterm bleeding. I was shocked when the doctor dismissed my concerns and told me that a 鈥渓ittle spotting鈥 was 鈥漬ormal.鈥 Luckily, both my son and I were completely healthy when I gave birth 鈥 but that wasn鈥檛 the case with my daughter, Ariel. (Jeanna Repass, 4/21)
Gene editing and therapy to replace missing or defective genes is one of the most exciting recent medical developments, offering tremendous hope for people with rare diseases and genetic conditions. With so little known about the long-term risks of gene therapy, we contend that the safest and best value to both patients and society will emerge within a framework of early evidence-development strategies following early coverage decisions. (Lee A. Fleisher and Matthew A. Fleisher, 4/23)
My chief resident gave me a strange look when I arrived for another day of work at the Mayo Clinic one morning. 鈥淪omething you鈥檙e not telling us?鈥 she asked, gesturing to the two letters on my desk from the Central Intelligence Agency. The jokes 鈥 about how I was secretly working for America鈥檚 international spy service 鈥 wrote themselves. I laughed along. (Casimir Klim, 4/23)