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18Dec

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DeSantis Is Right About Medicaid

North Carolina has become the 40th state to succumb to federal cash and adopt ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion for able-bodied working-age adults. A new study from the Paragon Health Institute shows there is little to celebrate. Overall health is unlikely to improve despite this massive increase in public welfare. We now have 10 years of data on ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion. The evidence against the policy is overwhelming: Expansion leads to a surge in spending but reduces healthcare access for traditional Medicaid enrollees such as low-income children and people with disabilities. And it doesn’t improve health.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah Is Reimagining Cancer Care

30Nov

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Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah Is Reimagining Cancer Care

So how do Dr. Subbiah and her team stay ahead of cancer and work toward better outcomes in cancer care? The solution starts with the patients who participate in clinical trials. Dr. Subbiah recognized right away that there were entire populations of patients who were not represented in the trials used to test new cancer treatments, and that was unacceptable.“When you look closely at those who participate, you see key people, part of our families, being excluded from the studies. Older adults; people in rural areas; people in racial and ethnic minority communities; those with disabilities; veterans; those with other medical problems, like diabetes and heart failure. You start to see that these are the folks who are being excluded either outright or unconsciously from these clinical trials....

A Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment May Cause Cancer. The FDA Is Investigating

29Nov

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A Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment May Cause Cancer. The FDA Is Investigating

Scientists use harmless viruses to ferry and insert the new genetic material because of their natural ability to get inside cells. But the potential for these viruses to accidentally trigger another cancer has long been considered a theoretical risk. In its notice, the FDA said the use of these viruses may have played a role in patients developing secondary cancers.The downside of using viruses is that they tend to drop off their genetic cargo at a random place in a person’s genome. Depending on where this new genetic material integrates, it could potentially activate a nearby cancer gene. “The concern would be that somehow the new genetic material that you put into patients’ T cells can induce cancer in that cell, perhaps by where it gets inserted in the DNA,” Porter says.Because of this...

27Nov

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Business

Magic Pills Are Coming

Wearable ultrasound machines and other inventions could reduce medical costs.

“I didn’t want to keep the money all for myself”: Harrington teen designs stickers to support charities | Community

27Nov

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“I didn’t want to keep the money all for myself”: Harrington teen designs stickers to support charities | Community

HARRINGTON, Wash. - A local teen creates and sells stickers to support various charities, making a great stocking stuffer this holiday season.16-year-old Bella Mattozzi is a student at Harrington High School and started her sticker business during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic."I've always loved art, and it just all started when I was just drawing a vintage van in my sketchbook," says Bella; she then showed it to her parents, who thought it was a cool idea to turn it into a sticker.After great sales from the vintage van sticker, Bella says, "I didn't want to keep the money all for myself, so I decided to donate some of the proceeds to a charity." So far, she has...

Dalton City Council agrees to move money to stormwater, recreation projects | Local News

14Nov

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Dalton City Council agrees to move money to stormwater, recreation projects | Local News

City of Dalton officials have agreed to redirect $6 million from a 2020 bond issue that was originally allocated for a proposed aquatics center to recreation and stormwater projects.City Council members informally agreed to the proposal when they met as the Finance Committee last week. The council members will have to vote to approve any specific contracts.Citing soaring construction costs and large projected operating deficits, the council members voted in October to cancel the aquatics center. The city had budgeted $13 million for the project, with $6 million coming from bond funds.City Administrator Andrew Parker said th...

12Nov

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COVID money to hire hitmen? | Opinion

The Department of Justice recently charged 371 people with stealing a combined $836 million in funds that were meant to be used for Covid 19 relief, according to the New York Post.The charges came after a three-month investigation by various law enforcement agencies, which led to 63 of the 371 people charged to be deemed gang members and others with connections to violent crime. Some of the funds were even used in murder-for-hire plots, prosecutors say.Much of the misused funds comes from pandemic unemployment insurance as well as funds from Small Business Administration programs including the Paycheck Protection Program and economic injury disaster loans, ac...

Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial

11Nov

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Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial

The current trial was sponsored by Novo Nordisk, the maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, and tracked patients for two years at locations worldwide. Half of the participants received weekly injections of semaglutide while the other half received a placebo. Neither group knew which they were getting. More than three-quarters of the patients had previously experienced a heart attack, and close to a quarter had chronic heart failure. The average age of the volunteers was 61.6, and about three-quarters were men.In patients taking semaglutide, heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and a biomarker of inflammation dropped by a larger degree than in those getting a placebo. But what the trial investigators were most interested in was whether semaglutide could reduce the risk of major cardiovasc...

This doctor wrote the book on medical debt

9Nov

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This doctor wrote the book on medical debt

In 2019, emergency medicine physician and historian Luke Messac was working as a medical resident. He had heard about hospitals suing their own patients over unpaid medical bills, so he decided to investigate whether the hospitals where he worked were doing the same.It turns out they were."The care I was delivering to patients was resulting in them showing up in court, or having their wages garnished, or signing up for a payment plan that they would be paying for the better part of a decade," said Messac.In this episode of "An Arm and a Leg," host Dan Weissmann speaks with Messac about his book, "Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine," and how people working in health care can try to reform these practices.Host and producer of "An Arm and a Leg." Previously, Dan wa...

The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died

1Nov

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The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died

Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who was the second person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, died on October 30, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where the transplant was performed.Faucette received the transplant on September 20 and lived for six weeks—less time than the first recipient, despite extra precautions by the Maryland team. Initially, Faucette made progress following his surgery. He was doing physical therapy, spending time with family members, and playing cards with his wife, according to the university. But in the days leading up to his death, his heart began to show signs of organ rejection; in other words, his immune system recognized the pig heart as foreign and attacke...