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Meet Mary Wakefield, the nurse administrator tasked with revamping the CDC

It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of criticism for repeatedly mishandling its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently monkeypox, the agency has acknowledged it failed and needs to change.

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Extra Discovery Allowed in States' Lawsuit Claiming Government "Colluded with and/or Coerced Social Media …

companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and contents."

Reason

Federal judge rules that mandated HIV PrEP coverage violates religious freedom

The court said that requiring companies to cover HIV PrEP violates corporations' religious rights.

Axios

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Exclusive-Dozens of migrant children reported missing in Houston, raising alarms

Federal and local officials are scrambling to locate close to a dozen unaccompanied migrant children, after Houston police raised concerns about dozens of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city since last year, according to U.S. government officials and related emails reviewed by Reuters.

Reuters

US to shift monkeypox aid to LGBTQ, racial minorities

The U.S. is shifting its monkeypox response efforts to increasingly target hard-hit sexual and racial minority groups that bear the brunt of the country’s outbreak.

Tribune News Service

Patient groups sue HHS over copay assistance rule - Roll Call

Insurers argue that drug companies’ copay assistance programs allow drug companies to steer patients toward expensive brand-name drugs.

Roll Call

Editorial: Biden’s monkeypox missteps

President Joe Biden’s administration has announced that it’s accelerating the distribution of 1.8 million monkeypox vaccines. While a positive development, it can’t paper over the government’s multiple missteps in responding to this crisis.

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Courts Split on Whether the Feds Can Overturn These State Abortion Bans

Plus: "Reparations" for the news industry, the disappearance of starter homes, and more...

Reason

How US government diet guidelines ignore the climate crisis

US government’s 2020-2025 guidance is meat- and dairy-heavy. Experts say that isn’t sustainable

The Guardian - US

Judge blocks HHS guidance on abortions as emergency care - Roll Call

The ruling argues that HHS guidance ignores provisions in a 1986 law stating the health of the fetus must be considered.

Roll Call

NHWK: Scorpion Grand Opening 3Q:22

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Benzinga

States increasingly fear Biden admin is fumbling monkeypox response

Every delay intensifies concern that the government is fumbling the early response to another emerging health threat.

Axios

HIPAA faces test in new abortion reality

As more abortion bans are enacted, health providers worry about how they can best protect their patients' health information.

Axios

Lawsuit could end free preventive health checkups

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, its authors cited three overarching goals: to improve access to health care, to slow rising medical costs and to improve health outcomes.

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Texas sues Biden administration over guidance requiring abortions in medical emergencies

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration July 14 after Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released guidance July 11 requiring doctors to provide abortions in medical emergencies when “abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve [the emergency] condition.” The guidance went…

The Independent UK

US officials failed to ask for monkeypox vaccine stocks to be put in vials in time for distribution, says report

Thousands of cases now reported in US

Roll Call

Administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency - Roll Call

The administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency and says it will make it easier to get vaccines to patients.

The Guardian - US

Biden signs second executive order to protect US abortion access

The directive equips the Heath and Human Services department to expand coverage for patients seeking out of state care

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Monkeypox Cases Continue To Spread Across the U.S. as 3 States Declare Emergencies

They're trying to pressure the federal government into getting organized about vaccines.

WEKU

Getting monkeypox treatment is easier, but still daunting and confusing

Though doctors and advocates have helped speed up access to the antiviral pills – of which the U.S. has enough to treat 1.7 million people – health providers are few and forms are still required.

The Independent UK

Biden administration plans to offer updated Covid booster shots in September

Booster shots that are effective against BA.5 are yet to receive FDA authorisation

Roll Call

Lobbying ramps up around new health agency headquarters - Roll Call

At least 10 states have expressed interest in hosting the new agency, tasked with speeding to market innovative health technologies.

The Independent UK

Monkeypox ‘can be contained, absolutely’ in US, White House doctor says

There are 2,500 reported cases of monkeypox in the US, detected in 44 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico

Tribune News Service

Monkeypox proves elusive foe as WHO sounds alarm on global spread

The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments around the world to revamp their pandemic response programs, invest in drugs and vaccines and establish viral surveillance systems. Now monkeypox is putting those upgrades to the test — and they’re falling short.

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Federal guidance on abortion pills causes confusion among Georgia pharmacists

ATLANTA — Pharmacists say Georgia's evolving restrictions around access to abortion coupled with recent guidance from the federal government have created confusion over distribution of medication that can terminate pregnancies.

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