Of the roughly 2 million Virginians who’d been enrolled in Medicaid before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 480,000 of them have been disenrolled as of this August. Typically eligibility determinations are made annually, but they’d been on pause nationwide amid the pandemic due to federal policy. That’s changed over the past year in what’s colloquially referred to as “Medicaid Unwinding” as provisions of...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved donanemab, a monoclonal antibody designed to slow the progression of early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Donanemab, made by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, works by helping the body remove amyloid plaque buildup in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Lilly said it will be sold under the name Kisunla and would cost $695 per vial...
Hurricane Beryl closed in Monday on the southeastern Caribbean after strengthening to an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, with meteorologists warning of “life-threatening winds and storm surge.” The storm was expected to make landfall Monday morning on the Windward Islands, with maximum rainfall of up to 10 inches expected in the Grenadines and up to 6 inches across Barbados, the National Hurricane Center in Miami...
MIAMI - Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill that is headed to voters in November as Amendment 5. If it becomes law, it will work based on the rate of inflation, homeowners could increase the percentage of their Homestead Exemption. "Anything that helps us is good, the middle class here in Miami, we are struggling," said Nancy Morales, who paid more...
The news comes as industry experts have been reporting that Florida’s property insurance market is starting to stabilize -- pointing to eight new insurance companies entering the market this year in Florida. Private insurance companies have reported profits as well. News4JAX asked Insurance Information Institute spokesman Mark Friedlander if the insurer of last resort’s proposed rate increase is evidence that progress...
A tightening of the requirements of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — widely known as 'food stamps' — approved during the fight over the 'debt ceiling' will only go into effect this coming October. Starting that month, people aged 53 and 54 without dependents must work at least 20 hours a week (or 80 a month) to access this...
(CNN) -- A low-calorie sweetener called xylitol, used in many low-sugar foods and consumer products such as chewing gum and toothpaste, may be linked to a nearly two-fold increased risk of heart attack, stroke and death in people who consume the highest levels of the sweetener, according to a new study. "We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to...
A study indicates that electronic cigarettes expose smokers to high levels of cadmium, lead and uranium, and consequently to physical deterioration. Adolescents who vape frequently have more uranium and lead in their urine than occasional smokers, according to a study based on data from a survey of adolescents between 13 and 17 years old that includes 200 who only smoke electronic...
(CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will be eligible for affordable health care coverage this year following the completion of a regulation, the agency announced Friday. Biden administration. The new federal regulation will expand access to health insurance to beneficiaries of the DACA program — which allows undocumented immigrants brought...
Three women likely became infected with HIV while receiving so-called vampire facials at a New Mexico spa, among the first known cases of HIV transmitted through cosmetic injections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Diseases (CDC, in English) in a report this Thursday. Clique
