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There’s no magic bullet in the foreseeable future for the treatment of people infected by Ebola, infectious-disease experts say. There’s no magic bullet in the foreseeable future for the treatment of people infected by Ebola, infectious-disease experts say. Read entire story.
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News About 30% of Utah residents who were cut from Medicaid this year say they became uninsured, according to state officials who conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of people disenrolled from the program. Utah has dropped more than 130,000 out of about 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries since April, after the federal government lifted […]
Molly Castle Work The California Legislature passed a pair of bills greenlighting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign to build 10,000 new beds and housing units and increase drug addiction treatment as part of his response to the state’s homelessness and drug crises. The Democratic governor is expected to sign the bills, which received bipartisan support. The […]
It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans were all-in on boosting public health spending. “The highest investment priority in Washington should be to double the federal budget for scientific research,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) wrote in a 1999 op-ed in The Washington Post. Big spending increases for the National Institutes of Health soon […]