Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Public Health Law Center

JUNE 30, 2020

California Comprehensive Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinance This Comprehensive Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinance was prepared to assist California cities and counties interested in establishing or strengthening a local tobacco retailer licensing (“TRL”) program and further regulating the tobacco retail environment.

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Mercola

JANUARY 26, 2025

They have no significant impact on overdose risks 7 To optimize your thyroid health, what is the best way to manage iodine intake? Managing iodine intake within safe levels can help maintain thyroid health. 9 What can you do to reduce GERD symptoms and protect your heart health? Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 13, 2025

The reporters, Aliyya Swaby of ProPublica and Paige Pfleger of WPLN/Nashville Public Radio teamed up to trace what led up to the deadly shooting. Your story chronicles the many opportunities for law enforcement and the school system to intervene and potentially prevent Henderson from committing the shooting. Shes incredible.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 27, 2021

Industry-wide regulations in web scraping and other forms of automated data collection are practically non-existent and we probably shouldn’t expect any in the near future. However, there are a sufficient number of other pointers that can help us stay on the right side of the law and ethics. Non-)Public data.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. But questions remain about what steps local and state regulators took to prevent a fire at a facility with a track record of environmental violations, including similar accidents in 2020. Rockdale County says it will file a federal lawsuit.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 16, 2025

an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and lead author of the study. Yet law enforcement vastly undercounts fatal police shootings, which is why research and reporting provide a public accounting of police violence. according to the Washington Post.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. health system, and insurance companies specifically. health system, and insurance companies specifically.

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Mercola

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a major study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by the Consortium for Childrens Environmental Health, these diseases now rank among the leading causes of illness and death for young people. Asthma, obesity and even certain childhood cancers now occur far more frequently than they did a few generations ago.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Appalachian Regional Hydrogen Hub is one of seven proposed, federally funded networks of this type of infrastructure announced a year ago — an initiative born from the Biden administration’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Department of Energy and the companies involved have not been transparent,” Coptis said.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Adequate coverage of groundwater contamination is crucial as it’s both a regional environmental issue and a largely invisible public health crisis that could have profound long-term impacts. Why this story matters now The PFAS contamination crisis is emblematic of the broader struggle to balance economic activity with public health.

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NC Health News

APRIL 26, 2025

In July that year, North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Aurelius wrote Mission a letter that flagged concerns about unreported bodies, cited state law, and offered training for hospital staff. The Watchdog sent Mission Health spokesperson Nancy Lindell several detailed sets of questions.

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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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NC Health News

MARCH 22, 2025

By Cristina Bolling Charlotte Ledger For years leading up to 2023, the financial situation at the Aldersgate retirement community in east Charlotte was quietly deteriorating, and neither state regulators nor residents grasped the magnitude of what was happening. Beef up what goes into the disclosure statements that the public can view.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Georgia’s open meetings law requires boards and other agencies to hold regular meetings but also allows them to cancel and postpone them. Advocates of public health and open government say failing to meet regularly is a bad practice.

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NC Health News

MARCH 30, 2025

The money was supposed to be allocated by June 2023, but in April of that year the Legislature revised the law to remove that deadline. The institute is led by Shannon Williams, the wife of the executive director of the NC Faith and Freedom Coalition, who is paid $70,000 a year, according to financial documents.

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NC Health News

MARCH 28, 2025

There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them. Among them are proposals to codify the right to contraception and in-vitro fertilization , ban conversion therapy , eliminate sales tax on menstrual products and increase regulation of crisis pregnancy centers.

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NC Health News

APRIL 12, 2025

By Rachana Pradhan KFF Health News Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agencys regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. The FDA faces a June 30 court-ordered deadline to finish releasing documents.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 27, 2025

By Rose Hoban Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing questions in health and biology, but a directive issued last week by President Donald Trump left many without answers when it came to the future of their life-saving and life-enhancing research projects. Mike Walden, an N.C.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Based on more than a million documents, the report spells out how the firms extracted massive profits from hospitals they controlled while saddling the facilities with debt and allowing patient care and safety to deteriorate. Health Care System, a step toward ensuring accountability.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 17, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating junk food, fast food, and ultra-processed food. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. Now attitudes are changing. Kennedy Jr.,

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As they documented operations at Max Environmental Technologies, they climbed fields of blackened waste and photographed pits, mud, debris, stained walls and unlabeled storage containers. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste. Our mission is to protect human health and the environment.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Later, after reading the DOE's public summary of the event, she felt frustrated. “I They said details of the projects remain hazy, public input is only planned after industry partners have received millions of dollars in public funding, and communities feel that they have no say in the decision-making.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. KFF Health News agreed not to name the workers because they are not authorized to speak to the press and fear retaliation.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Max Environmental Technologies landfill has been out of compliance with requirements set under the Clean Water Act for most of the past three years and with the federal hazardous waste law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA for short, since July 2023. times higher than upstream. I wouldnt eat the fish.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Residents feared the site would not only sink their property values and threaten the environment, but also potentially harm people’s health. Conservative lawmakers and state regulators have been hostile to laws and regulations that center on the rights of people of color, Burkhardt said. Florida Gov.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

MARCH 28, 2025

Proposed Medicaid Changes NCUIH works with partners to support Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Lawsuits & Court Cases Updates Current court cases and legal action impacting Native health care and policy. UIOs serve as vital health care providers. Call for Nominations!

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NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Kennedy’s confirmation hearings to be Health and Human Services secretary are scheduled for Jan.

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