by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule that would change the nutrition standards that foods must meet before they can carry the “healthy” label on their packages. The agency said the change “would align the definition of the...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Yesterday, in recognition of National Recovery Month, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a new analysis that finds the opioid epidemic cost the U.S. a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Payers
Results from The Commonwealth Fund’s biennial Health Insurance Survey show that even though a record number of Americans have health insurance, 43 percent of working-age adults were inadequately insured in 2022. In the survey, based on responses from more than 6,000...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a new report revealing that 27 percent of Head Start grant recipients had incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized releases to adults. Nearly 20...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 28, 2022 | Behavioral Health, Blog, Latest News
Tym Rourke at Kids Count Event with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen Tym Rourke has been engaged in prevention efforts for almost his entire life. As a high school student, he joined Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) and later served as the president. After...
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