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George Skelton: Optometrists, ophthalmologists square off over bill to expand role of primary care eye doctors

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There's a nonsensical disconnect in California's efforts to provide universal health care. There aren't enough doctors willing to accept the state's small fees for treating low-income patients.

Los Angeles Times

10 Health Care Stocks With Whale Alerts In Today's Session

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Benzinga

3 Health Care REITs With The Highest Upside, According to Analysts

The real estate investment trust (REIT) sector has been hit particularly hard in 2022, but analysts are starting to see value in the beaten-down prices of these stocks. Lately they have been predicting large upside target prices.

Benzinga

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US mining advocates look north and like what they see

WASHINGTON — When members of Congress speak glowingly of Canada, it is most typically progressive members envious of the nation’s gun laws or single-payer health care system. But many members who have expressed their frustrations with the U.S. mining permitting system have pointed to the Great White North as a…

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A free medical clinic opened in rural East Texas. Thousands poured in for help.

Texas ranks last among states in access to health care and has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country. Two longtime doctors in rural Henderson County created a homegrown safety net to fill the gap.

The Texas Tribune

More states extend postpartum Medicaid since Roe’s demise

Restrictions on abortion likely will result in more unwanted pregnancies being carried to term. Experts predict that will worsen the nation’s already high rate of maternal deaths — unless states spend a lot more on health care and social and economic supports for women, children and families.

Tribune News Service

Anti-transgender health care laws are sweeping US states

For about a week in May, Alabama had the harshest anti-transgender law in the U.S. Any doctor who prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy to people under the age of 18 could face felony charges, spend up to 10 years in prison and pay a $15,000 fine. Physicians scrambled to…

Tribune News Service

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Many refugees dealing with trauma face obstacles to mental health care

As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border.

Tribune News Service

Young people are driving a rise in mental health spending

People under 25 are propelling a slow but steady rise in mental health and addiction spending.

Axios

Private equity sees the billions in eye care as firms target high-profit procedures

ST. LOUIS — Christina Green hoped cataract surgery would clear up her cloudy vision, which had worsened after she took a drug to fight her breast cancer.

Tribune News Service

Ad spending shows Dems hinging midterm hopes on abortion

Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising related to abortion rights

The Independent UK

Employers' coming health care crunch

Premiums are expected to rise, and employers will have to decide whether to shift those costs to workers.

Axios

Addressing health care barriers during Hispanic Heritage Month

More than 60 million people of Hispanic heritage live in the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Does cancer increase my risk for a blood clot?

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am 48 and am being treated for metastatic breast cancer. Despite my diagnosis, I live a fairly normal life, am physically active and strive to optimize my health from a noncancer standpoint. An acquaintance who works in health care advised that I should watch closely for…

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Commentary: What’s at fault for lower life expectancy? Health care has less influence than individual choices.

Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth.

The Guardian - AU

Mental health outcomes are worse in the bush, partly because it’s easier to get a gun than get help

People in rural Australia don’t experience higher rates of mental illness than their city counterparts – it’s just more likely to end in tragedy when they do

Chicago Sun-Times

Vice President Harris lauds Illinois as model for nation on protecting abortion rights: ‘This is the home of hope and change’

In her fourth trip to Illinois since taking office, the vice president warned that reproductive rights are under assault across the nation. “And so we need you to get the vote out this November because truly, truly, this election, I do believe will determine the future of not only your…

Irish Mirror

Doctors warn against TikTok trend that could 'cause harm' to your new baby

Several videos of chiropractors using a range of unproven treatments on young babies have gone viral online causing major concern for health care professionals

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The Independent UK

Climate change jeopardizes health care services, report says

Medical centers around the country say fires, flooding, heat waves and other extreme weather are increasingly jeopardizing medical services, damaging health care facilities and forcing patients to flee their hospital beds

Benzinga

10 Health Care Stocks Whale Activity In Today's Session

Axios

Uninsured sexual assault survivors billed thousands for medical care, study shows

High health care-related costs can make it more "disincentivizing" for survivors to come forward about their sexual assaults.

WEKU

Legal fights and loopholes could blunt Medicare's new power to control drug prices

The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to limit prescription drug prices. But the pharmaceutical industry is already lobbying to dull their impact.

Roll Call

Biden says freight rail carriers, workers have tentative deal - Roll Call

President Biden said the rail deal includes a wage increase above 24 percent over five years and cap workers’ health care contributions.

Tribune News Service

Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

ATLANTA — Like many neighborhoods in cities across the country, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward is changing.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Court was wrong to oppose HIV drug mandate because of employer’s religion

Religious liberty and pluralism are democratic principles that sometimes clash and that our nation must balance. We think that a federal district court in Fort Worth got that balance wrong and imperiled health care access with its recent ruling in Braidwood Management v. Becerra. In that case, the court found…

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