INSANE: 15 - The Real Truth

Senate Committee Rejects Amendment That Would Have Expanded Pesticide Liability Nationwide

Senate Agriculture Committee Republicans voted down an amendment restoring failure-to-warn lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Long Term Brain Imaging Links Smoking, Blood Pressure and Blood Lipids to Vascular Dementia Damage

A four-year imaging study of nearly 500 adults found modifiable risk factors tracked mainly with vascular brain damage rather than Alzheimer's proteins.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Head Start Delivers Screenings and Immunization Tracking to Young Children, and Its Rules Are Changing Now

A proposed federal rule would rescind and replace Head Start's performance standards, including required health screenings and immunization verification.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Vitamin C Pills Failed in Cancer Trials While Intravenous Dosing Behaves Like a Different Drug

Oral vitamin C cannot reach the blood levels that make intravenous ascorbate pharmacologically active. Here is the chemistry behind the difference.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Seafood, Infant Formula and Dried Peppers Lead the Latest FDA Import Alerts That Block Shipments at the Border

FDA import alerts let inspectors hold shipments at the border without testing them. Here is how detention without physical examination works.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

A Bipartisan Hepatitis C Elimination Bill Is Stalled in the Senate Over Its Congressional Budget Office Score

A bipartisan bill to expand hepatitis C testing and treatment has stalled in the Senate over a CBO cost estimate its sponsors call disappointing.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

A Shipping Container Clinic Run by One Nurse Is How Part of Rural Texas Now Reaches a Doctor

In Fort Davis, Texas, a retrofitted shipping container staffed by one nurse connects patients to physicians online for a $30 flat fee.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Advocacy Group Says a Medicare Rule Change Delayed Price Negotiation for a Costly AbbVie Drug by Seven Years

Public Citizen says a CMS eligibility change kept AbbVie's Creon out of Medicare price negotiation for seven extra years. Here is how it works.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Colorado Hospitals Are Absorbing More Unpaid Bills as Coverage Losses Mount, New Claims Analysis Shows

A new Colorado claims analysis finds more uninsured patients unable to pay hospital bills, with rural regions hit hardest by coverage losses.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Wildfire Smoke Drove Most Unhealthy Air Days During U.S. Pregnancies by 2019, National Study Finds

A study of 64.5 million U.S. pregnancies found wildfire smoke accounted for about 65% of unhealthy prenatal air pollution days by 2019.

Medical Daily · Aug 10