Paid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish
By Zach Dyer
The U.S. is one of nine countries that do not guarantee paid sick leave. Since the covid pandemic, advocates in states including Missouri, Alaska, and Nebraska are organizing to take the issue to voters with ballot initiatives this November.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Abortions Rose 16% In California From 2020-23: California’s abortion rate rose last year to its highest level in a decade as state legislation made it easier to get an abortion and thousands from other states sought medical care here, new data show. About 178,400 legal abortions were provided in 2023, up by about 24,000, or 16%, from 2020. Read more from The Sacramento Bee.
Olvídate del botón para llamar a la enfermera. Un dispositivo que usa IA adherido a tu pecho permite que controlen tus signos a distancia
By Phil Galewitz
Este delgado dispositivo, que funciona con baterías, se llama BioButton y registra los signos vitales de los pacientes, incluidas la temperatura, y las frecuencias cardíaca y respiratoria.
Tres personas heridas en el desfile del Super Bowl viven con balas que siguen alojadas en sus cuerpos
By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR
A casi tres meses del tiroteo en el desfile del Super Bowl de los Kansas City Chiefs, que dejó al menos 24 personas heridas, recuperarse de esas heridas es algo profundamente personal e incluye una sorprendente área gris de la medicina: si las balas deberían o no extraerse.
Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One.
By Phil Galewitz
Dozens of hospitals have deployed a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor patients remotely. One hospital says it reduces nurses’ workloads — but some nurses fear the technology could replace them.
Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies
By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR
Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Hospital Gets Medicare Reprieve: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has rescinded its April 11 determination to terminate Modesto-based Stanislaus Surgical Hospital's Medicare contract. CMS is giving the hospital until May 15 to submit an acceptable plan of correction. Read more from Becker’s Hospital Review.
What’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?
By Michael Scaturro
Illustration by Lydia Zuraw
A decade after Congress told the FDA to expedite the approval of more effective sunscreens, the federal government still has not approved sunscreen ingredients that are safely being used around the world. Meanwhile, skin cancer is the nation’s most common cancer.
Biden Team’s Tightrope: Reining In Rogue Obamacare Agents Without Slowing Enrollment
By Julie Appleby
Federal regulators face a growing challenge — how to prevent rogue health insurance agents from switching unknowing consumers’ Obamacare coverage without making the enrollment process so cumbersome that enrollment declines.
Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge
By Arthur Allen
The FDA told Amgen to test whether a quarter-dose of its lung cancer drug worked as well as the amount recommended on the product label. It did and with fewer side effects. But Amgen is sticking to the higher dose — which earns it an additional $180,000 a year per patient.
