Trabajadores agrícolas están en alto riesgo de exposición a la gripe aviar, pero las pruebas les son esquivas
By Tony Leys and Amy Maxmen
Los trabajadores agrícolas enfrentan algunas de las exposiciones más intensas al virus de la gripe aviar, pero defensores dicen que muchos de ellos no tienen recursos a los que recurrir si se enferman.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 28, 2024
KP Doctors In Northern California Vote To Unionize: Medical residents at Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California hospitals have voted to unionize, becoming the first group of doctors in the health system to do so. The results must now be certified by the National Labor Relations Board. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
New Help for Dealing With Aggression in People With Dementia
By Judith Graham
A sedative shouldn’t be the first thing tried to help people with dementia who exhibit distressing behaviors. A new website is a comprehensive, free resource that offers guidance to caregivers.
Psychoactive Drugs Are Having a Moment. The FDA Will Soon Weigh In.
By Dawn Megli
Mounting evidence suggests psychoactive drugs including LSD, ketamine, mushrooms, and MDMA can be powerful treatments for severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA approval, safety protocols could render them extremely expensive.
Daily Edition for Friday, May 24, 2024
Arizona Doctors Now Allowed To Perform Abortions In California: Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law goes into effect immediately. Read more from AP and Politico.
FDA Urged To Relax Decades-Old Tissue Donation Restrictions for Gay and Bisexual Men
By Rae Ellen Bichell
Federal regulations prevent gay and bisexual men from donating tissue, such as corneas, ligaments, and blood vessels. Similar restrictions have been relaxed or lifted for donated blood and organs in recent years.
Reclaman revisar viejas restricciones que previenen que hombres gay y bisexuales donen tejidos
By Rae Ellen Bichell
Defensores piden que las pautas para los tejidos donados por hombres gays y bisexuales sean las mismas que aplican al resto del cuerpo humano.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Anti-Abortion Hard-Liners Speak Up
While Republican candidates in many states downplay their opposition to abortion, the most vehement wing of the movement, which helped overturn Roe v. Wade — those who advocate prosecuting patients, outlawing contraception, and banning IVF — are increasingly outspoken. Meanwhile, some state legislatures continue to advance new restrictions, like a proposal moving in Louisiana to include abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol on the list of the most dangerous drugs. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins schools of public health and nursing and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Shefali Luthra of The 19th about her new book on abortion in post-Roe America, “Undue Burden.”
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 23, 2024
Dems Try Again To Protect Trans Students From Being Outed: California Democrats introduced a bill in Sacramento on Wednesday that would prohibit school districts from adopting parental notification policies. It's the latest volley in a political war that’s been raging for more than a year. Read more from The Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, and San Diego Union-Tribune.
Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
By Amy Maxmen
Dairy farmers and veterinarians in northern Texas furiously investigated a mysterious illness among cattle before the government got involved. Their observations are telling.
