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A new bill would create a scholarship program for students who agree to work with specialized courts in California to get patients into treatment, but some people argue the state shouldn鈥檛 restrict scholarship aid to a new, untested program given broader behavioral health workforce shortages.
The Democratic governor's executive order that outlaws the disproved practice, which is intended to change a person's gender identity or sexual orientation, goes into effect immediately. Plus: news from Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Alabama, California, and elsewhere.
Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve Medi-Cal patients, has united a broad swath of California鈥檚 health care, business, and political establishments. But a newly formed, smaller group of opponents says it will do more harm than good.
The botanical has been used for centuries in Southeast Asia, Bloomberg notes, but it's more commonly found in drinks and concentrates in the U.S., triggering the research effort. Separately, financial incentives for kidney donors; changing research standards on trans issues; and more.
Also, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke up again about Ozempic's manufacturer Novo Nordisk, alleging that it can make and sell its weight loss drug for under $100 a month. Meanwhile, CNN notes that GLP-1 drugs in pill form are coming, and this may revolutionize weight loss treatments.
NPR reports that some researchers believe the data could show an even larger drop, beyond the 10.6% drop that CDC data shows, when federal surveys take stock of state-level improvements. Separately, more than a quarter of those in Baltimore know someone who fatally overdosed.
California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers鈥 choices. The bill sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom would require pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed in California and would ban some business practices. Newsom vetoed a previous effort three years ago.
An estimated 39 million people might die because superbugs are able to evade medications designed to save them from disease, researchers say. Could phage therapy be the cure we need?
The rapid infusion of the chemical, used in plastic products, into the fentanyl supply is raising significant concern among health researchers. Also: The Washington Post examines how Purdue's global counterparts are still profiting from the sale of opioids, and more.
In other news from around the country: Oklahoma ditches naloxone vending machines; medical waste is washing ashore in Maryland and Virginia; and more.
The CDC said Friday that the first person was a member of the initial patient's household, and the second person was a health care worker. The CDC also said the simultaneous development of symptoms doesn鈥檛 provide evidence of person-to-person spread, NBC reported.
As California cities crack down on homeless encampments in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing fines and arrests, front-line workers say such sweeps are undercutting billions in state and federal Medicaid spending meant to stabilize people鈥檚 health and get them off the streets.
麻豆女优 Health News and California Healthline journalists made the rounds on local and state media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
The report from the American Hospital Association and consulting group Vizient notes that among the improvements seen after the pandemic, patient mortality risks are falling, and there are fewer hospital-acquired infections.
The figure approved by the legislature Wednesday is designed to address higher state Medicaid costs for the current fiscal year, but the total is $81 million less than the figure requested by state health officials. Separately, New York moves to address disparities in health care.
Researchers broke the data down by states where abortions were 鈥渂anned,鈥 鈥渓imited,鈥 or 鈥減rotected,鈥 and found increases across all of them, leading to the conclusion that legal uncertainty prompted more people to choose to have their fallopian tubes tied.
In other news, bird flu has spread to three more dairy herds in California. Also, CDC data confirm that more than half of the country experienced "very high" levels of covid-19 in August.
The Kaiser Permanente Post Acute Care Center in San Leandro will be permanently closed by mid-November. Also in the news: an Athena Health Care nursing home in Connecticut loses federal funding; a nurse strike is averted at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital; and more.
John Baackes, who steered Medi-Cal鈥檚 largest health plan following the Affordable Care Act expansion, and later prepared it for a state overhaul of Medi-Cal, will retire after this year. Baackes believes low payments to doctors and other providers, along with an acute labor shortage, hamper Medi-Cal鈥檚 success.
About 21 million Americans have signed up for a plan this year, an analysis shows. Major subsidies have played a role in propping up the numbers, but now Congress must decide whether to extend them. Also, a look at where the presidential candidates stand on the law.
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