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At GOP Convention, Health Policy Is Mostly MIA

Episode 356

July 18, 2024

After an assassination attempt last weekend sent former President Donald Trump to the hospital with minor injuries, the Republican National Convention went off with little mention of health care issues. And Trump’s newly nominated vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has barely staked out a record on health during his 18 months in office — aside from being strongly opposed to abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join 51��Ƶ Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews 51��Ƶ Health News’ Renuka Rayasam, who wrote June’s installment of 51��Ƶ Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month,” about a patient who walked into what he thought was an urgent care center and walked out with an emergency room bill. 

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Montana’s Plan To Curb Opioid Overdoses Includes Vending Machines

Details about where the machines would go — and how they would help those most at risk — are sparse. The state has proposed using them to distribute naloxone and fentanyl testing strips.

By Mara Silvers, Montana Free Press

July 18, 2024

Health Brief

A Little-Recognized Public Health Crisis

By Vanessa G. Sánchez

July 17, 2024

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Postcard From Houston

Despite Past Storms’ Lessons, Long-Term Care Residents Again Left Powerless

Even after multiple massive power outages — including one from a 2021 winter storm in Texas that prompted a U.S. Senate investigation — little has changed for older Americans in senior living facilities when natural disasters strike.

By Sandy West

July 15, 2024

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Colorado Poultry Workers Battle Bird Flu in Heat Wave as US Struggles to Contain Outbreak

So far, all 10 cases reported nationally this year at dairy and poultry farms have been mild, consisting of respiratory symptoms and eye irritation. Scientists have warned that the virus could mutate to spread from person to person, like the seasonal flu, and spark a pandemic.

By Amy Maxmen

July 15, 2024

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Journalists Discuss FTC and Supreme Court Actions — And What’s Up With the Bird Flu

51��Ƶ Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

July 13, 2024

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Finland Is Offering Farmworkers Bird Flu Shots. Some Experts Say the US Should, Too.

Even with a stockpile of bird flu vaccinations, the federal government is not offering them to those at high risk. Along with testing and measures to prevent spread, vaccinations may protect people and stop the outbreak from becoming a pandemic.

By Amy Maxmen and Arthur Allen

July 11, 2024

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Why the Election May Slow Plans To Replace Lead Pipes

Lead in drinking water is a known danger. But how many of the country’s estimated 9 million lead service lines need to be replaced — and how quickly — is subject to debate. The clock is ticking on two competing plans as the election looms.

By Sandy West

July 10, 2024

Zarinah Lomax stands beside portraits she commissioned, mostly of young people who died from gunfire.

Postcard From Philadelphia

These Vibrant, Bigger-Than-Life Portraits Turn Gun Death Statistics Into Indelible Stories

With pop-up art shows in Philadelphia and beyond, Zarinah Lomax’s mission is to show what is routinely lost to gun violence in America: “This is somebody’s child. Somebody’s son, somebody’s daughter who was working toward something.”

By Christine Spolar

July 10, 2024

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Supreme Court OKs Local Crackdowns on Homelessness, as Advocates Warn of Chaos

In a momentous 6-3 decision that could affect communities across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court gave local officials and law enforcement more authority to fine and penalize homeless people living outside. Advocates for homeless people predict the ruling will lead to more sickness and death.

By Angela Hart

June 28, 2024

What the Health? From 51��Ƶ Health News

SCOTUS Ruling Strips Power From Federal Health Agencies

Episode 353

June 28, 2024

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies, rather than judges, the power to interpret ambiguous laws passed by Congress. Administrative experts say the decision will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business. Also, the court decided not to decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join 51��Ƶ Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

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The Injured

$2 Million Disbursed to Victims and Community Groups in Wake of Super Bowl Mass Shooting

The United Way of Greater Kansas City gave $1.2 million to victims and $832,000 to 14 community groups Thursday, hoping to reach other victims from the violence at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, as well as those working to prevent gun violence.

By Peggy Lowe, KCUR and Bram Sable-Smith

June 28, 2024

A red-eyed cicada rests on the middle finger of Kasey Fowler-Finn.

Chorus or Cacophony? Cicada Song Hits Some Ears Harder Than Others

Cicadas are the song of the summer, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity.

By Zach Dyer

June 27, 2024

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US Judge Finds California in Contempt Over Prison Mental Health Staffing

A federal judge has found top California officials in contempt for failing to hire enough mental health professionals to adequately treat tens of thousands of incarcerated people with serious mental disorders. The judge ordered the state to pay $112 million in fines.

By Don Thompson

June 26, 2024

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Closing of Rural Hospitals Leaves Towns With Unhealthy Real Estate

Dozens of small cities and towns across the United States struggle not just with health care access and the loss of jobs, but also with the burden of what to do with big, empty buildings.

By Taylor Sisk

June 26, 2024

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy gestures with his hands as he talks.

US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence ‘a Public Health Crisis’

Gun violence is the No. 1 cause of death for children and teens in America. Vivek Murthy says the toll extends beyond deaths, as survivors deal with “a lifetime of physical and mental health impacts” and those who witness shootings become traumatized.

By Rachana Pradhan and Fred Clasen-Kelly

June 25, 2024

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Young Gay Latinos See Rising Share of New HIV Cases, Leading to Call for Targeted Funding

Since being diagnosed with HIV in 2022, Fernando Hermida has had to move three times to access treatment. A 51��Ƶ Health News-Associated Press analysis found gay and bisexual Latino men account for a fast-growing proportion of new diagnoses and infections, showing they are falling behind in the fight against HIV.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez, Devna Bose, The Associated Press, and Phillip Reese

June 24, 2024

51��Ƶ Health News On Air

Journalists Discuss Bird Flu, Tick-Borne Illnesses, and Lessons From Covid Response

51��Ƶ Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

June 22, 2024

What the Health? From 51��Ƶ Health News

Live From Aspen: Health and the 2024 Elections

Episode 352

June 21, 2024

Health policy may not be the top issue in this year’s presidential and congressional elections, but it’s likely to play a key role. President Joe Biden and Democrats intend to hold Republicans responsible for the Supreme Court’s unpopular ruling overturning the right to abortion, and former President Donald Trump aims to take credit for government efforts to lower prescription drug prices — even in cases in which he played no role. Meanwhile, some critical health care issues, such as those involving Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, are unlikely to get discussed much, even though the party in power after the elections would control the future of those programs. This week, in an episode taped before a live audience at the Aspen Ideas: Health festival in Aspen, Colorado, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join 51��Ƶ Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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The Injured

Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivors Await Promised Donations While Bills Pile Up

Families of the people hurt during the Feb. 14 mass shooting are carrying what one expert calls “victimization debt.” In the third story of our series “The Injured,” we learn about the strain of paying small and large medical bills and other out-of-pocket costs.

By Peggy Lowe, KCUR and Bram Sable-Smith

June 21, 2024

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