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.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 22, 2024
After Four Years, California Finally Has A Day Without Any Covid Deaths: It was a regular Tuesday in spring, sunny and warm, and a little foggy at the coast. But as April 2 came to a close, a silent victory emerged: The day had passed without a single Californian dying from covid. Read more from Bay Area News Group.
California Pays People With Addiction To Stay Clean — With Feds’ Blessing
By Angela Hart
Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using hard drugs. The Golden State was the first to win approval from the Biden administration to cover the sobriety payments, with Medicaid wrapping it into an ambitious health-care initiative spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide the […]
