A day of free admission for the National Park Service’s 103rd birthday can provide an inspiring change of scenery for runners and others.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
The Friday Breeze Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend. Happy Friday! We have officially made it through the dog days of summer. (Fun fact: Apparently those are set dates and not just … a vague …
Different Takes: Parkland Students Go Bold, Hope To Shake Apathy Toward Gun Control Measures; Red Flag Laws In States Seem To Be A Step Forward
Editorial pages focus on topics devoted to ending gun violence.
Viewpoints: Turning The Tide On Narcotics Starts With A New Model That Doesn’t Include Jail; Border Conditions Without Vaccines Are Ripe For Breeding Vicious Flu
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health issues and others.
Longer Looks: Racking Up The Steps; Confusing Diet Advice; And The Price Of Cellular Therapies
Each week, KHN finds interesting reads from around the Web.
State Highlights: Child Welfare Reforms Underway In Illinois, Connecticut But Problems Persist; Minnesota Officials Report More Possible Lung Disease Cases
Media outlets report on news from Illinois, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, California, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Missouri.
Skilled Nursing Homes Set To Lose Medicaid Money Brace For Battle With Connecticut Over Slashed Funds
The Connecticut legislature passed a law this year that allows the state to reduce Medicaid money to nursing homes that don’t maintain at least a 70 percent occupancy level. The facilities that will be hit the hardest are hoping to challenge the cuts. Medicaid news comes out of Georgia and Colorado, as well.
What Research Shows About Long-Term Psychological Damage Of Immigrant Children Being Detained Indefinitely
There’s ample research that exists that confirms the negative mental health impact of children being held in institutionalized settings. “The longer it goes on, the more damage is inflicted,” says Jack Shonkoff, who directs the Harvard Center for the Developing Child.
Washington State Becomes Latest To Reject Family Planning Funding Following Trump Administration’s Changes
Opponents of the changes have deemed them a “gag rule.” Planned Parenthood had also announced that it will not accept the federal funds with the constraints in place. Abortion news comes out of Indiana and Missouri, as well.
‘This Is A Crisis’: Many Patient Caregivers Are Slow To Identify Brain Diseases In Women, Doctors Say
Diagnosing brain diseases like Parkinson’s can be complicated, but doctors are more likely to treat men for the diseases and label women as having “functional disorders.” In other public health news: air pollution dangers; sitting less; DNA database privacy issues; and skewed genetic databases.
The Opioid Reckoning: It’s Rare To Hold Directors Liable For Corporate Conduct, But Sacklers May Prove To Be Exception
As court cases against Purdue Pharma progress, details continue to be revealed about the extent the Sackler family was involved in making decisions about the company’s strategy. In other news on the crisis: lawyers fight to give newborns suffering from opioid epidemic a voice in the upcoming legal battles; Ohio’s attorney general warns Endo and …
There’s Little Incentive To Develop Antibiotics, But Does TB Drug’s Recent Success Story Herald New Model For Future?
In recent decades, pharmaceutical funding has been directed primarily toward drug research and development that will yield higher revenue, such as cancer drugs. But TB Alliance relied on donors from across the world to fund the development of its new tuberculosis antibiotic, and experts wonder if this is a path forward for new drugs. In …
First Edition: August 23, 2019
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Addiction Clinics Market Pricey, Unproven Treatments To Desperate Patients
Jason was hallucinating. He was withdrawing from drugs at an addiction treatment center near Indianapolis, and he had hardly slept for several days. “He was reaching for things, and he was talking to Bill Gates and he was talking to somebody else I’m just certain he hasn’t met,” his mother, Cheryl, says. She remembers finding …
Years Ago, This Doctor Linked A Mysterious Lung Disease To Vaping
Dr. John E. Parker was working at a West Virginia hospital in 2015 when a 31-year-old female patient was admitted with acute respiratory problems. A team of doctors ultimately suspected that her mysterious case of lipoid pneumonia might be related to vaping and weren’t sure they had seen anything like it before. They were intrigued …
Life-Changing Drugs Almost Nobody Can Afford
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Readers And Tweeters Take Dialysis Providers To Task: Nowhere But In The USA
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. The Undue Strain Of Dialysis This is criminal, and the dialysis companies are not the only ones plundering the public (“Bill Of The Month: First Kidney Failure, Then A $540,842 …
Significant Mother
Beth was my ex-stepmother, but “mother” was still a part of her title. Could I share a home with her?
Weekly Health Quiz: Keto Diet, Exercise and Depression
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
Dialysis Industry Spends Big To Protect Profits
The dialysis industry spent about $2.5 million in California on lobbying and campaign contributions in the first half of this year in its ongoing battle to thwart regulation, according to a California Healthline analysis of campaign finance reports filed with the state. Last year, dialysis companies poured a record-breaking $111 million into a campaign to …
Let’s Meet Again in Five Years
They thought college was too soon for lifelong love, so they scheduled their next date for a little later — 60 months.
To Promote Inclusivity, Stay Away from Personality Assessments
Do personality tests like the Myers-Briggs help managers learn their team’s working styles, or just encourage them to hire and promote people like them?
What’s Wrong With Three Women Going Camping?
A mother is so strongly opposed to her daughter’s summer plans that she tried to secretly bribe her travel companions.
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: All About Medicare
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Joanne Kenen Politico @JoanneKenen Read Joanne’s Stories Kimberly Leonard Washington Examiner @leonardkl Read Kimberly’s Stories Paige Winfield Cunningham The Washington Post @pw_cunningham Read Paige’s Stories Before “Medicare for All,” there was just Medicare, the very popular …
Viewpoints: Lessons On Why Dems Aren’t Ready To Climb Hill To ‘Medicare For All’; Try Public Health Approach To Eliminating Gun Violence
Opinion writers weigh in on these health topics and others.