Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We are very proud that the Senate came together Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to expand and strengthen the Older Americans Act over the next five years, said Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ranking member Bill Cassidy, (R-LA) in a joint statement. However, on Dec.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

yet, anti-vaxxers are referring to this paper as evidence that vaccine mRNA becomes DNA that is incorporated into the genes of body cells. Yet, Offit has publicly questioned the practice of giving third doses to young people with no health risk factors, and thinks that a case of COVID-19 probably should count as a dose.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Between May 12, 2021 and October 31, 2021 within a population of 32 million persons aged 12-50 years, 21 million first doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer) vaccine and 2.86 The highest risk of myocarditis is in women aged 18-24 after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine at a rate of ~ 1/18,700.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Emily Vespa For more than four months, 32-year-old Jackson Hedgepeth has lived in a small room at Atrium Health Union hospital in Monroe, waiting for help. Iverson Riddle, a state-operated center that provides services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (often referred to as I/DD) for more than a year.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Nearly a third of American adults are unsure if emergency contraception like the morning-after pill is legal in their state and 5 percent think it is illegal there, according to a 2023 survey from health policy nonprofit KFF. Wade in 2022, while the morning-after pill remains legal around the country.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The New Yorker House Style Joins The Internet Age announced the magazines daily newsletter under the byline of Andrew Boynton, whose appropriately old-fashioned title was Head of Copy. But what about health care vs. healthcare? Health care is our style, a spokesperson wrote me in an email.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Im referring to the latest results from the World Happiness Report , which found that the U.S. in 2024 was at least partly attributable to Americans younger than age 30 feeling worse about their lives, Ilana Ron-Levey, managing director at Gallup, told CNN. By KIM BELLARD News flash: America is not a very happy place these days.

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NC Health News

MARCH 28, 2025

This years crossover date, May 8, marks the point by which any bill thats purely policy and lacking any state appropriations needs to be approved by at least one chamber, or it dies until the beginning of the next biennium. There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them.

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious virus. Since the outbreak emerged three weeks ago , the Texas health department has confirmed 90 cases with 16 hospitalizations, as of Feb. Most of those infected are under age 18.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group. Unfortunately, it isn’t so simple.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 4, 2025

Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case with serious health and financial consequences for millions of Americans in every state. If Americans avoid preventive care due to cost, health outcomes will decline and racial disparities will rise, the center added. In April, the U.S. Kennedy Jr., In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Feb.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. Cabrera remembers being moved out of the emergency room at University Health to make room for 12 people who came in from the shooting at the rally, including eight with gunshot wounds. 14 mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Updated Covid vaccines, slated to hit shelves this week, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. For many local Georgia health departments, uptake remains a challenge.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

women ages 15 to 49 said they received a family planning service between 2022 to 2023, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. The Biden administration reversed the regulation in 2021, but health experts fear it could come back. percent and 15.7

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. The absence of care not only can have a pernicious effect on an individuals health, but on the larger community as well if infectious diseases go unchecked.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

I refer, of course, to the United States of America. Department of Public Health. Margaret Marshall, some six decades later, recalled that moment in a conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin. She said, There was great tension in the room. William Weld appointed her an Associate Justice of that very same Massachusetts Supreme Court.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

has expressed opposition to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS, two issues that critics say should give senators second thoughts about confirming him as Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, Jr.

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