Researchers at MUSC Health aim to build a DNA database of 100,000 people to better understand how genetics affects health risks. But they’re struggling to recruit enough Black participants.

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Price fixing “is still illegal even if you are achieving it through an algorithm,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said Tuesday at a media event hosted by KFF. “There’s no kind of algorithmic exemption.”

julie rovner & David Hilzenrath report. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…

Evidence is building that unsubstantiated reports of child abuse and neglect disproportionately hurt families that are poor, Black, or Native American, or have disabilities.

Kristin Jones reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

Colorado, California, and New York are among the states looking at scaling back mandatory reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect. Critics worry that changes in the law could result in missed cases.

📝: Kristin Jones kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

Evidence shows that to kill poison oak at the former Army base Fort Ord, the military sprayed the powerful herbicide known as Agent Orange. Now vets with cancer want compensation.

Hannah Norman & Patricia Kime report for KFF Health News & USA TODAY

Older adults who MDs have decided should be admitted to the hospital are spending hours, even more than a day, in ERs waiting for beds to open up. With deleterious impacts. My latest. cnn.com/2024/04/26/hea…

Older adults are suffering preventable harms as they wait in ERs for a hospital bed to open after doctors have decided to admit them. It’s a crisis that emergency medicine physicians say needs to be addressed.

Judith Graham, KFF Health News & CNN. ⤵️ cnn.com/2024/04/26/hea…

In the 2020 elections, then-candidate Joe Biden and many of his congressional colleagues loudly advocated for a federal “public option” health insurance plan. But since Biden entered office, it’s been crickets.

#Health202 analysis by Elisabeth Rosenthal. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/h…

Three women were likely infected with HIV while receiving so-called vampire facials at a New Mexico spa, marking the first known HIV cases transmitted via cosmetic injections, the CDC said in a report Thursday.

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Tune in for another health-packed episode of #WTHealth !

Host julie rovner is joined by panelists Joanne Kenen, Tami Luhby, Alice Miranda Ollstein to discuss abortion, Medicaid's new rules, FTC's ban on most 'noncompete' clauses, and more health news: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

NEW: Over the past five years, more than 25,000 women traveled to Florida for abortions. With Florida’s abortion ban going into effect in May, many ask: Where will women with unwanted pregnancies go now?

Chris O'Donnell, Tampa Bay Times & KFF Health News: tampabay.com/news/health/20…

Florida's 6-week abortion ban starts May 1, leaving women in much of the South w/ little or no access to abortion clinics. But come November, Florida voters will decide on a constitutional amendment adding the right to an abortion.
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via Chris O'Donnell

NEW: Big health insurers that have contracts with state Medicaid programs find themselves making more money even as enrollment in Medicaid programs has dropped.

Phil Galewitz explains why. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

NEW: California’s $500M youth teletherapy apps launched four months ago. “I'm not hearing anything,” said Loretta Whitson, executive director of CASC. “It's like crickets.”

Molly Work reports for KFF Health News-CaliforniaHealthline. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

1/ Stemming the spread of H5N1 bird flu
🔹The federal government is ramping up testing of dairy cows
🔹Cows will now have to be tested before being transferred to another state
🔹H5N1 viral fragments detected in grocery store milk
🔹The risk to humans remains low at this time

This week's #WTHealth podcast up! Alice Miranda Ollstein, Tami Luhby, Joanne Kenen and I talk SCOTUS and Idaho abortion law; nursing home rules, FTC and noncompetes and more. A full week of health news in 40 minutes!
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Ten years after the start of its water crisis, is there finally justice for Flint? We talked to residents about the impact of the crisis on mental health, churches, students, art, and more. Read what they had to say in our series 'Flint's Still Fighting.'

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