Health
As mpox cases rise, experts urge complete, 2-part vaccinations
As of May 25, the nation had seen a roughly 150% increase in cases of the disease formerly known as monkeypox.
Amid mental health crisis, new compact allows social workers to practice across state lines
America is facing a shortage of social workers and other mental health providers.
States need to keep PFAS ’forever chemicals’ out of the water. It won’t be cheap.
State officials and utilities say it’s going to be difficult and costly to meet new federal requirements for PFAS levels in drinking water.
The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans
Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to an analysis of federal data on births.
N.J. health officials advise adding genomic sequencing to newborn disease screening
N.J. health officials aim to add genomic sequencing, which allows scientists to document someone’s whole DNA, to mandatory newborn blood testing.
Growth of recreational cannabis market slowed in first quarter of 2024
Recreational cannabis sales grew by 4.4% in the first quarter of 2024, half the rate of growth seen during the prior quarter.
Patients fear medical program is failing without intervention from state officials, cannabis agency
Since N.J. legalized recreational weed, the 14-year-old medical cannabis program has shrunk — it's down about 50,000 patients since 2022.
Biden administration to issue rule expanding DACA health care access
About 100,000 uninsured people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will get health insurance, the Biden administration said.
Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison
New Jersey is among the states that has applied to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people before their release.
Doctors plead with Congress to help improve U.S. maternal mortality rates
Doctors urged Congress to address high rates of maternal mortality and lower barriers keeping people of color out of medical professions.
State, casinos, unions ask judge to dismiss workers’ smoking carveout lawsuit
Attorneys for the state, the casino industry, and a bevy of building trades argued gambling houses should keep their smoking carveout.
Rep. Donald Payne Jr., hospitalized after heart attack, has died at 65
Six-term Democratic Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr. died 18 days after a heart attack that left him hospitalized in a coma.