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Good morning. As discussed, it\u2019s Ice Cream Every Day Season. But yesterday I was reminded, through a harrowing arachnid encounter while pedaling uphill, that it\u2019s also Spiders On My Bike Every Day Season. (I park next to a shrub.)
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In 2020, the NIH funded a network of 10 centers focused on emerging infectious diseases. Last year, the Trump administration terminated those centers\u2019 grants as part of broader cuts on work related to Covid-19 and pandemic preparedness. And as you know, this year\u00a0we\u2019ve seen a major Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
The centers weren\u2019t on the front lines of outbreak responses in the way that CDC or USAID have been. But some researchers who were involved in the network say the cuts weakened relationships with experts abroad that had been fostered over years, undercutting research collaborations on dangerous diseases like Ebola. STAT\u2019s Anil Oza has more<\/a> on the current status of the work\u00a0and what the future might look like.
Guidance released Monday<\/a> offers the most detail yet about how new work requirements will change the Medicaid program, which serves close to 70 million people. STAT reporters have combed through the nearly 400-page document and spoken with Medicaid leaders and advocates to get a better understanding of the impact these changes will have.
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Put bluntly: \u201cIt\u2019s not going to work,\u201d per Harvard economics professor Benjamin Sommers. Much of the conversation revolves around one of the ways that people can be exempted from the work requirements: medical frailty. It\u2019s a tricky, two-step process: A person must have a serious medical condition and they must show that it impairs their ability to work. Read more<\/a> from a team of reporters on the ramifications.\u00a0
A new survey of 2,000 adults found overwhelming agreement across political parties that ultra-processed foods are addictive and a major cause of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Despite the consensus, the government is not doing enough to rein in the food industry that produces these products, according to top researchers. Both the survey results and expert policy recommendations were included alongside more than a dozen articles in a special edition of the American Journal of Public Health focused on ultra-processed foods, published this morning.
Contributors to the issue have one overarching message for lawmakers, as articulated by scholar Marion Nestle: \u201cDo policy!\u201d STAT\u2019s Sarah Todd wrote about the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts<\/a> these experts laid out for future government action.
It\u2019s been a month since the last hantavirus death was reported, according to an X post<\/a> yesterday from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. \u201cThe situation is stable, and the global risk remains low,\u201d he wrote.
Also yesterday, HHS sent an email to American cruise ship passengers quarantining in Nebraska to participate in \u201ca fun and completely optional opportunity to help us share a glimpse of your experience with the public,\u201d according to an email shared with Inside Medicine\u2019s Jeremy Faust<\/a>. The email, sent by an HHS field operations account, requests photos of activities people are doing in their rooms. Faust categorizes the effort as \u201csome free government propaganda.\u201d
Deaths of despair \u2014 from suicide, overdose, and alcohol \u2014 declined in the United States in 2024, marking a hopeful turning point after years of increases. Drug overdose deaths in particular dropped significantly, down by 26% from 2023. Provisional estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest just under 80,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2024, down from over 100,000 deaths at the peak of the opioid epidemic in 2022. \u201cThat is more than 80 American lives saved every single day,\u201d Allison Arwady, the recently departed director of the CDC Injury Center, told reporters Tuesday.
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While combined death rates from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol are still higher than pre-pandemic levels, they declined in 2024. Suicide deaths fell by 3%, and mortality from specific alcohol-driven causes, including alcohol poisoning and liver disease, fell by 4%. (Data did not include all alcohol-attributable causes, such as violence or car crashes, which make alcohol a deadlier substance<\/a> than opioids in the U.S.)
It has taken years of work and investment to see an improvement in overdose death stats, Arwady said Tuesday at a press conference hosted by the nonprofit Trust for America\u2019s Health, which published the data analysis<\/a>. It will take a similarly coordinated intention to drive down suicide and alcohol deaths, she said. With more cuts to public health looming, she said now is not the time to let up.
\u201cA decade ago, we didn\u2019t have any of this. We were barely counting drug overdoses,\u201d Arwady said. \u201cThis is not a partisan issue, this is not a political issue.\u201d \u2014 Isabella Cueto<\/em>
The U.S. has the strongest military in the world. Nevertheless, the Trump administration seems intent on making its members even stronger \u2014 or, at least aesthetically so. Last fall, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that there will be no \u201cfat troops\u201d or \u201cfat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon.\u201d In January, the military implemented a strict waist-to-height body composition ratio, regardless of a troop\u2019s particular role.
Paula Chesley teaches yoga at a clinic for people with eating disorders, including both service members and veterans. She\u2019s worried about how this approach could worsen the pressures that already contribute to eating disorders among troops and veterans. Read more<\/a> on what she\u2019s learned working with male military clients.
(In related news, a federal appeals court in D.C. ruled Monday that \u201canimus-filled reasons\u201d were behind the administration\u2019s ban on transgender people in the military. Chris Geidner, a lawyer who writes the helpful LawDork blog, broke down the decision<\/a> and its implications.)
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