by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House announced that over 100 private and public entities committed more than $8 billion to the “food is medicine” movement linking nutrition and chronic illness. Of the committed funds, $2.5 billion will be invested in startup companies...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Online grocery delivery company Instacart is launching a new business initiative aimed at expanding access to nutritious food for underserved communities. Instacart plans to focus on three pillars: help increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for...
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...
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