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Major health provisions fail to make cut in just-passed U.S. government funding bill.

Mon, 2024-03-25 10:05 — mike kraft

Major health bills fail to make cut amid competing priorities Major bipartisan health bills, including changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry and hospital payment reforms, were excluded from the $1.2 trillion government funding bill after memb… colinmeyn The Hill

Major bipartisan health bills, including changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry and hospital payment reforms, were excluded from the $1.2 trillion government funding bill after members failed to come to a last-minute agreement.

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Opinion: U.S. needs nonpartisan commission to examaine what wrong in dealing with early stages of COVID pandemic

Fri, 2024-03-22 19:30 — mike kraft

What Did the US Get Wrong During Covid? We Need to Know In the first year of the pandemic, leaders badly fumbled. We need a nonpartisan investigation into how things went so wrong. F.D. Flam Bloomberg

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Large U.S. Nursing home operator files for bankruptcy after cyber attacks

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:29 — mike kraft

Nursing home co. Petersen files for bankruptcy after cyberattacks Petersen Health Care, one of the largest nursing home operators in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after cyberattacks and defaults on government-backed loans worsened the company’s long-standing financial challenges. Dietrich Knauth Reuters

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Medicaid expansion blocked in Georgia and Kansas by Republican led committees

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:20 — mike kraft

Republican majorities block efforts to expand Medicaid in Georgia and Kansas ATLANTA (AP) — Plans to expand Medicaid coverage to over half a million more people in Georgia and Kansas were defeated by Republican-led committees in the states’ legislatures Thursday. Ther… JEFF AMY and JOHN HANNA, Associated Press The Hill

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Flu linked to greater risk for neurological disorders than COVID-19-- study

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:10 — mike kraft

Flu linked to greater risk for neurological disorders than COVID-19, study shows - UPI.com The flu is more likely to lead to a neurological disorder than COVID-19, according to a new study that surprised its authors. UPI

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The US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:05 — mike kraft

After four years with Covid-19, the US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season | CNN With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for the past four years. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Experts say that focused planning and forecasting efforts helped avoid some of the worst-case scenarios. But there was still a significant number of severe outcomes, and there are still key areas of improvement – especially around vaccination.

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Opinion: sabbaticals for nurses could help counter shortages and burnout

Thu, 2024-03-21 11:16 — mike kraft

Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout. Torie Bosch STAT

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Native Americans are hit hardest by rising syphilis rates

Thu, 2024-03-21 11:12 — mike kraft

Rapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest - KFF Health News With U.S. syphilis rates climbing to the worst level in seven decades, public health experts and the federal Indian Health Service are scrambling to detect and treat the disease in Native American communities, where babies are infected at a higher rate than in any other demographic. khnkytjaw KFF Health News

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COVID related lung infection can damage heart--study

Thu, 2024-03-21 10:46 — mike kraft

COVID-induced lung infection linked to heart damage Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) related to COVID-19 infections can damage the heart even when the virus itself doesn’t affect heart tissue. The findings come from a study today in Circulation. CIDRAP

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The study suggests that ARDS triggers widespread inflammation in the body, which leads to secondary cardiovascular complications.

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After 4 years of COVID, experts are just beginning to understand long COVID

Wed, 2024-03-20 11:10 — mike kraft

4 years later, experts are just beginning to 'scratch the surface' of understanding long COVID Four years after the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, researchers say much is still not understood about a common complication: long COVID. ABC News ABC News

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Since the early days of the pandemic, scientists have learned a great deal about what puts someone at risk for long COVID, but researchers say we are still "scratching the surface" when it comes to our understanding of what causes the condition or how to treat it.

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