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Microplastics Found in Nearly All Bottled Water
Drining from a plastic water bottle likely means ingesting microplastic particles, a new study claims, prompting fresh concernsĀ ā and calls for scientific research ā on the possible health implications of widespread plastics pollution. A study carried out on more than 250 water bottles sourced from 11 brands in nine different countries revealed the Microplastic contamination [ā¦]
Policies
New Iowa Law Allows Plans that Skirt ACA
Iowa will allow people to buy a cheaper form of health insurance that skirts Affordable Care Act rules, under legislation signed into law Monday by the stateās Republican governor. The law will allow Iowaās Farm Bureau to partner with a designated insurance company to offer so-called health benefit plans that technically arenāt defined as insurance. [ā¦]
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VA Choice Could Open Way to Privatization
For the last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin insisted the VA would not be privatized on his watch. Now, thanks to a Koch-supported coup at the top of the second-largest department in government, his watch has ended ā and the battle over privatization persists. For years the Koch brothers have been hovering around the [ā¦]
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First Responders Improving Interactions for People with Autism
First responders areare increasingly likely to respond to an incident involving a person with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fastest-growing developmental disability affecting about 1 in 68 children in the United States. On a global scale approximately 1 percent of the world population has ASD. How can first responders adapt their response when [ā¦]
Blogs/Opinion
No Experience
You canāt make this stuff up: President Trump has announced he will nominate a medical doctor who has no discernible management experience to run the second-largest agency in the federal government. Can presidents be sued for malpractice? The man Trump has named to become secretary of veterans affairs, Dr. Ronny Jackson, happens to be the [ā¦]
Disparities
Health Care for Reservation Inmates Raises Concern
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ā At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied. Hundreds of miles away, a diabetic man jailed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming needed insulin, yet government records say authorities were unable to [ā¦]
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Sewage Leaks Plague Elite Washington Hospital
āA black, grainy foul-smelling substanceā coated the floorĀ of an operating room at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, which also suffered from at least one āactive leakā of sewage, according to a review by the District of Columbia health department last August. That health department report was cited in a lawsuitĀ filed against the hospital by the [ā¦]
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Soda Industry Fighting Back on Local Taxes
Watch out public health advocatesĀ ā as soda tax campaigns are bubbling up in cities across the nation to combat obesity, diabetes and other serious health conditions ā the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy. A state billĀ banning localities from taxing food and beverages came out of nowhere in Michigan [ā¦]
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States Need More Rules to Protect Insurance Market
Without more rules in place, state regulators wonāt be able to fully protect the individual health insurance market from adverse selection when the individual mandate penalty ends in 2019 and if the Trump administration expands association health plans (AHPs) and short-term catastrophic plans, according toĀ a new Commonwealth Fund report. States can āensure a level playing [ā¦]
Disparities
Report: Minority Women Undertreated for Perinatal Depression
In a new position paper, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University urge federal policymakers to appropriate funds toward diagnosis and treatment of perinatalĀ depressionĀ in minority women ā a group they say has been lacking in such care. Such a move would include increasing the number of medical providers who are trained [ā¦]
Policies
Sanders: āWe Know Nothing About VA Pickā
Sen. Bernie Sanders wouldnāt commit to supporting President Donald Trumpās pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, on Sunday. In an interview on CBSā āFace the Nation,ā the Vermont independent noted that Jackson, Trumpās personal physician, is a virtual unknown on veterans issues. He also expressed concerns the Trump administration [ā¦]
Disparities
Researchers Double Effort to Enroll Women in Breast-Disease Study
Leaders of a landmark study aimed at heightening the focus on family medical history and genetic drivers that put some women at higher risks than others for developing breast disease are ramping up efforts to add Black females to their hoped-for pool of 100,000 participants. So far, Black women, who tend to be diagnosed later [ā¦]
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