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Workers Pay the Price While Congress and Employers Debate Need for Heat Regulations
Sometimes the heat makes you vomit, said Carmen Garcia, a farmworker in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She and her husband spent July in the garlic fields, kneeling on the scorched earth as temperatures hovered above 105…
Biden Administration Proposes New Standards to Boost Nursing Home Staffing
The nation’s most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades.
The…
Activist Misuses Federal Data to Make False Claim That Covid Vaccines Killed 676,000
Tom Kertscher, PolitiFact
Covid-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans.
Steve Kirsch in an Aug. 6, 2023, blog post
A blog post shared on Facebook claimed that covid-19 vaccines have killed some 676,000 Americans.…
When Temps Rise, So Do Medical Risks. Should Doctors and Nurses Talk More About Heat?
An important email appeared in the inboxes of a small group of health care workers north of Boston as this summer started. It warned that local temperatures were rising into the 80s.
An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by…
How Far Will Montana’s Push to Remove Lead from School Drinking Water Go?
Montana’s legislature designated $3.7 million this spring to remove lead from school drinking-water supplies, then the state received $565,000 more on Aug. 1 from the $50 billion federal infrastructure package aiming to improve…
5 Things to Know About the New Drug Pricing Negotiations
The Biden administration has picked the first 10 high-priced prescription drugs subject to federal price negotiations, taking a swipe at the powerful pharmaceutical industry. It marks a major turning point in a long-fought battle…
Artificial Intelligence May Influence Whether You Can Get Pain Medication
Elizabeth Amirault had never heard of a Narx Score. But she said she learned last year the tool had been used to track her medication use.
During an August 2022 visit to a hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Amirault told a nurse…
A Move to Cut Drug Prices Has Patients With Rare Diseases Worried
For people with cystic fibrosis, like Sabrina Walker, Trikafta has been a life-changer.
Before she started taking the drug, she would wind up in the hospital for weeks at a time until antibiotics could eliminate the infections…
Exclusive: CMS Study Sabotages Efforts to Bolster Nursing Home Staffing, Advocates Say
Jordan Rau, KFF Health News
The Biden administration last year promised to establish minimum staffing levels for the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes. It was the centerpiece of an agenda to overhaul an industry the government said…
Californians Headed to HBCUs in the South Prepare for College Under Abortion Bans
When I’laysia Vital got accepted to Texas Southern University, a historically Black university in Houston, she immediately began daydreaming about the sense of freedom that would come with living on her own, and the sense of…