"The clinic contends it occurs at six weeks. Mississippi argues it can occur anywhere between six and twelve weeks," the appeals court judges wrote. "But all agree that cardiac activity can be detected well before the fetus is viable. That dooms the ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: University Of Michigan President Apologizes For Deceased Doctor’s Abuse; Jury Clears Boston Children’s Hospital In Controversial…
Media outlets report on news from Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Georgia, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Trump’s Medicaid Chief Labels Medicaid ‘Mediocre.’ Is It?
“Yet, for all that spending, health outcomes today on Medicaid are mediocre and many patients have difficulty accessing care.” Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in a speech to the American ... [Continue Reading]
Listen: Missouri Efforts Show How Hard It Is To Treat Pain Without Opioids
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber speaks with KBIA’s Sebastián Martínez Valdivia about the challenges Missouri faces in trying to treat chronic pain without opioids. Weber had reported that only about 500 of Missouri’s roughly 330,000 adult ... [Continue Reading]
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: The Labor Pains Of ‘Medicare For All’
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State Highlights: Michigan Investigates Student Allegations Of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse; Advocates Push Lawmakers To Keep Connecticut’s Religious…
Media outlets report on news from Michigan, Connecticut, California, Maryland, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, and Vermont. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Obamacare A Disgrace? Biden Highlights Bloomberg’s Negative Remarks About The Affordable Care Act.
“From the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike called it a disgrace.” – Former Vice President Joe Biden in comments during the February Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Dems Back ‘Right To Health Care’ Proposal In Oregon House; California Agency Proposes Tougher Scrutiny Of Dangerous Jails
Media outlets report on news from Oregon, California, Louisiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Georgia, Iowa, Connecticut, Indiana, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Advocates, Audit Fault Ability Of Georgia Agencies To Oversee Mental Health, Senior Care; Massachusetts Bill Aims To Improve…
Media outlets report on news from Georgia, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, District of Columbia, Nebraska, Maryland, North Carolina, Michigan, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: LA Mayor Works With Trump Administration To Pave Way For Homeless Beds; Baltimore Mayor Kept Reselling Same ‘Healthy Holly’…
Media outlets report on news from California, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Washington. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Opioids’ Serious Adverse Effects Came Up In Only 12% Of Doctor, Sales Rep Interactions, Analysis Finds
And the addictive quality of the painkillers was mention in only 49 percent of the interactions. Meanwhile, 59% of the physicians judged the quality of the scientific information the sales reps provided to be good or excellent. Other news on the ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Tests Public Health Infrastructure In The Heartland
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Every weekday at noon since Jan. 27, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director Randall Williams gathers his outbreak response team for a meeting on coronavirus. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Iowa Governor Won’t Discuss Center’s Sexual Arousal Research On Disabled Residents; Oklahoma Judge Allows Transgender Inmate’s…
Media outlets report on news from Iowa, Oklahoma, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia and Hawaii. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
‘Clean Needles Important’: Injected Heroin Use Might Explain Rising Rates Of Hepatitis C, Study Finds
"We were intrigued by the idea that the opioid crisis might be behind the massive increase in hepatitis C," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. News on the epidemic is from Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New ... [Continue Reading]
‘We’re In The Locker Room, Wondering What Happened’: N.C. Republicans Losing Ground In Medicaid Stand-Off
In November, 75 days before North Carolina was set to abandon its fee-for-service Medicaid model and essentially turn the management of the $14 billion annual program to managed care companies that had been awarded contracts, the state secretary of ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: Newly Elected Democrats In Virginia Keep Up Pace On Liberal Changes; Idaho’s Looser Immunization Laws Attract Anti-Vaxxers From…
Media outlets report on news from Virginia, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, California, Minnesota, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, North Carolina, Louisiana, Iowa and Missouri. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlights: South Dakota Bill Banning Transgender Youth Treatment Fails; Kansas Man In Poverty-Stricken Area Wound Up In Jail For Not Paying…
South Dakota, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, California, Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Instead Of Trying To Break Impossible Congressional Gridlock, Some Gun Violence Activists Start Thinking Local
Advocates are finding success in school board measures as well as simply talking to friends and neighbors about keeping their guns stored safely. Despite the high tensions that usually come with the issue, the movement is flying under the radar and ... [Continue Reading]
Death Toll At Troubled Mississippi Prison Climbs To 16, 10th Fatality Recorded In 6 Weeks
Mississippi is facing a federal lawsuit over prison conditions and last week the Department of Justice said it started investigations at three prisons. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
When It Comes To The New Coronavirus, Just Who Is A ‘Close Contact’?
Even as U.S. authorities have taken the drastic steps of quarantining residents returning from China, and temporarily banning foreign visitors who recently traveled to affected Chinese regions, they have urged the vast majority of U.S. residents to ... [Continue Reading]
State Highlight: Feds Push Georgia To Allow Subsidy Proposal For ACA; Four GOP Members, Dems Stop Amendment On Abortion Ban From Passing In Kansas
Media outlets report on news from Georgia, Kansas, California, New York, Louisiana, Wyoming, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, Massachusetts and Florida. SOURCE: Kaiser Health News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Local Officials In South Warn About ‘Gray Death,’ A Mix Of Heroin And Fentanyl That Can Be Deadly To Even Touch
The drug first started appearing in Georgia and Alabama in 2017, and then turned up in Ohio and Pennsylvania before making its way to Louisiana. Officials say it looks like concrete and are warning people not to even touch it. Opioid news comes out ... [Continue Reading]