Federal Judge’s Ruling Threatens Preventive Care Coverage in ACA
A federal judge in Texas agreed on Wednesday with plaintiffs — a handful of employers in the state — that requiring insurers to cover the costs of medications for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) infringed on their religious rights, effectively scrapping a central tenet of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under the ACA, most health plans […]
Texas Reports Nation’s First Possible Death From Monkeypox
A severely immunocompromised man in Texas has died after being diagnosed with monkeypox, state and local health officials announced Tuesday, marking what may be the nation’s first death related to the disease. Harris County Judge Linda Hidalgo said in a statement that the Houston-area man, who died Sunday, “faced various severe illnesses” and that his […]
Medical Debt Collectors Added to Wrongful Billing Lawsuit
Two medical debt collection agencies have been added to a Washington state lawsuit against 14 associated hospitals over alleged violations of consumer protection laws related to financial assistance practices, the state’s attorney general announced. The lawsuit, initially filed in February, mainly targets the Providence healthcare system, which operates dozens of hospitals in Washington and other […]
San Francisco, N.Y. State Declare Monkeypox Public Health Emergencies – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus. About 40% of the 4,907 monkeypox cases recorded in the United States have been diagnosed […]
San Francisco, N.Y. State Declare Monkeypox Public Health Emergencies – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 Both San Francisco and New York state declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, as they struggle to gain access to more resources to help contain the spread of the virus. About 40% of the 4,907 monkeypox cases recorded in the United States have been diagnosed […]
San Francisco, New York State Declare Monkeypox A Public Health Emergency
The city of San Francisco and the state of New York declared public health emergencies on Thursday amid the growing outbreak of monkeypox. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that the risk of monkeypox to the general population remained low but that declaring a public health emergency would allow the city to mobilize resources and […]
California’s trees are dying, and might not be coming back: Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985
The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But that element of the state’s climate-change solution arsenal may be in jeopardy, as new research from the University of California, Irvine reports that trees in California’s mountain ranges and open spaces are dying from wildfires and […]
Researchers develop computer model to predict whether a pesticide will harm bees
Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to help protect bees from pesticides. Cory Simon, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Xiaoli Fern, associate professor of computer science, led the project, which involved training a machine learning model to predict whether any proposed new herbicide, fungicide […]
Researchers expand understanding of vortex spread in superfluids
An international team of scientists featuring Florida State University researchers has developed a model that predicts the spread of vortices in so-called superfluids, work that provides new insight into the physics that govern turbulence in quantum fluid systems such as superfluid neutron stars. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, the researchers created a […]
Opinion | ‘A State Can’t Ban an FDA-Approved Drug’: What We Heard This Week
“Arguably a state can’t ban an FDA-approved drug.” — Greer Donley, JD, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, on whether state bans on abortions will extend to the abortion pill. “What happens next will require some soul-searching within the oncology community.” — Christopher Booth, MD, of Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, on how […]