Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

California has the strictest chemical regulations of any state, and its policies are more stringent than federal chemical laws. This study is the first one assessing whether those regulations have resulted in lower levels of toxic exposures. This aligns with what we’ve learned by interviewing companies,” said Knox.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Health insurance wasnt always run by big for profit corporations According to Elizabeth Rosenthals book, An American Sickness (a must read), it all started in the 1920s when the Vice President of Baylor University Medical Center discovered that they were carrying a large number of unpaid bills. and they operate accordingly.

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Mercola

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the featured video, independent journalist Tucker Carlson interviews Brigham Buhler founder and CEO of Ways2Well, a preventative care and health optimization platform about how the health insurance industry works to keep us in poor health. Instead, the patient, already in poor health, is nudged into a cycle of drugs.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

PITTSBURGH Around 13% of industrial facilities in Allegheny Countys environmental justice communities regularly violate federal clean air or clean water laws compared to just 3% of facilities in non-environmental justice areas, according to a recent study. This is important for regulators to know.

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

JUNE 17, 2022

In this week’s podcast, NACCHO Government Affairs team members Adriane Casalotti and Kerry Allen discuss the much-anticipated funding opportunity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Strengthening the US Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems.”

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nearly 70 petrochemical companies across the nation, including 30 in Texas, are sending millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year due to weak or nonexistent regulations, according to a report published by the watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project.

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Environmental Health News

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, based on a request from The Texas Health and Environment Alliance ( THEA ), the State of Texas released a cancer rate assessment that determined that a 250-square-mile area along the San Jacinto River, including the Superfund Site, is a cancer cluster.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 18, 2025

In Wake County Superior Court, DEQ appealed the decision of Chief Administrative Law Judge Donald van der Vaart, who is also director of the Office of Administrative Hearings. DEQ or any interested person may request a public hearing on the EPAs objection to the permit. 12, 2024, ruling that revoked permit limits of 1,4-dioxane.

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Mercola

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Raw milk, which has not undergone pasteurization, retains its natural enzymes, probiotics and vitamins components that are essential for gut health and immunity. According to federal law, selling raw milk across state lines is prohibited due to safety concerns, citing risks of bacterial contamination from pathogens such as E.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

consumers contain chemicals that pose greater health risks to people than prior formulations suspected of causing cancer, according to an analysis by an environmental health advocacy group. New types of Roundup weed killing products marketed to U.S. The report was disputed by Bayer, which called the analysis “deeply flawed.”

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In terms of what data is collected, it typically includes personal information such as patient name and address, their NHS number, information about their health conditions and records of contact between patient and healthcare professionals. The NHS follows the laws related to data privacy. How is the data protected?

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Public Health Law Center

AUGUST 10, 2018

Heated Cigarette Regulations - 50 State Review This is a snapshot of heated cigarettes (otherwise known as "heat-not-burn") regulation in the U.S., prepared by the Public Health Law Center. Please click on a state to see the regulations in place as of August 24, 2018. and the U.S. Map not working?

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Environmental Health News

APRIL 4, 2025

Corn growers across Midwestern states appear to be flouting regulations aimed at protecting important waterways from contamination with toxic atrazine weedkiller, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and field data that comes as US regulators ponder changes to rules for use of the pesticide.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

by Lucas Thomae and Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The DHHS Division of Health Service Regulations role is to routinely inspect those nursing homes and investigate complaints involving them. 1, 2019, through Dec.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

District Court in the Northern District of Florida upheld a state law banning the sale and distribution of lab-grown or "cultivated" meat. 1 This law, enacted by the Florida Legislature, specifically prohibits companies from selling any meat or food product developed from cultured animal cells, like those grown in bioreactors.

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Public Health Law Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

E-Cigarette Regulations - 50 State Review This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations is based on a survey of current state statutes in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Note: this is a summary of state laws; cities, counties, and Tribes may have adopted other e-cigarette measures. and five U.S.

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The Network for Public Health Law

MARCH 7, 2024

The Network for Public Health Law is thrilled to announce the appointment of Quang (“Q”) Dang as Managing Director, Legal Programs and Strategy. “Our vision is of a world where laws, policies, funding, and infrastructure promote public health through evidence, equity, and community engagement.,”

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 10, 2019

Hospitals, medical research centers , health centers, clinics, industry, administrations, drug agencies, laboratories, health websites all generate large amounts of data, which will be key to the transformation of the health system. Digitization will improve the accuracy of predictions and efficiency of the healthcare system.

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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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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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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. licensing standards to train as doctors at reputable Georgia health care organizations. licensing standards to train as doctors at reputable Georgia health care organizations. It really does need to pass, Kweskin said.

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The Hill

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Lawmakers and physicians are growing anxious for COVID-era telemedicine flexibility measures to be extended for a third time, as federal regulators signal a potential tightening of the rules ahead of a deadline at the end of the year. Last year, the two agencies extended these flexibility measures through the end of 2024.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Required staffing ratios and other regulations make child care exceedingly expensive for parents. the frightening reality is that come 2022, hospitals will reach a novel level of short-staffed, and it will have horrendous repercussions on our health system and the patients reliant on it.” Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms. Sefton was right.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For example, in the health care sector, patient privacy laws require keeping information encrypted. million penalty for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA. Organizations receive significant fines for noncompliance.

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Public Health Law Center

MAY 10, 2022

Tobacco Retail Licensing Calculator The Public Health Law Center developed this TRL license fee calculator tool to help jurisdictions figure out how much they need to charge retailers to cover the costs of running a good TRL program. We welcome your input as we continue to improve this tool!

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Ecosystem health, and by extension human health, have been treated as externalities for too long. The true costs of degrading public waters are often borne by individuals and communities who did not decide to pollute them and who do not benefit from their degradation.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Kelly suggests trying to picture the “history” of an imagined future, the steps required to get to X in year YYYY, so that we can understand “What kinds of technology and laws and social expectations needed to be in place year by year in order to arrive at that state.” How do we regulated it? What would we do if X was true?

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Millions of informal waste pickers, like those at Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite, play a key role in reducing plastic waste, but poor policies and health risks threaten their livelihoods. Waste pickers globally push for recognition in international plastic treaty talks to secure better working conditions and health protections.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In 2008, the city health department opened up 1,000 permits for street vendors to sell fresh fruits and vegetables in New York City’s food deserts. But Shapiro, who helps vendors navigate permits, said it is in part due to the difficult economics of running a perishable food business within the health department’s restrictive regulations.

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Mercola

JANUARY 14, 2025

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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Public Health Law Center

DECEMBER 10, 2016

These resources provide an overview of Kansas laws that support access to healthy and affordable local food and influence initiatives that provide healthier food environments. This publication was made possible with funding from KC Healthy Kids.

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