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California bill would require mental health warnings on social media sites
2 weeks, 1 day ago

California bill would require mental health warnings on social media sites

The Independent  

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Labour’s mental health reforms a ‘lip service’ that could worsen racial inequalities, experts warn
1 month, 1 week ago

Labour’s mental health reforms a ‘lip service’ that could worsen racial inequalities, experts warn

The Independent  

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Congress targets Chinese influence in health tech. It could come with tradeoffs
3 months, 1 week ago

Congress targets Chinese influence in health tech. It could come with tradeoffs

The Independent  

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Gov. Gavin Newsom urges counties to expand conservatorship laws to combat homelessness, other crises
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom urges counties to expand conservatorship laws to combat homelessness, other crises

LA Times  

A homeless woman waits as Inside Safe workers canvas a homeless camp on 86th Place and Broadway to move people out of the encampment and into hotel and motel rooms June 26 in Los Angeles. “Despite having unprecedented tools at your disposal to start helping our state’s most vulnerable people right now, you are still waiting to implement this element …

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Bill Maher gives blunt reality check to liberals who believe Canada is a Utopia: ‘There’s only one problem…’
8 months, 1 week ago

Bill Maher gives blunt reality check to liberals who believe Canada is a Utopia: ‘There’s only one problem…’

Hindustan Times  

Is Canada an ideal country that Americans should look to for guidance? On Friday night, the Real Time host Bill Maher gave a blunt reality check to citizens of the United States who love Canada. Bill Maher blasts liberals who think Canada is a Utopia Maher told his audience that once, “Canada was where all the treasured goals of liberalism …

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Georgia Senate lawmakers give final passage to bill to loosen health permit rules
9 months ago

Georgia Senate lawmakers give final passage to bill to loosen health permit rules

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers on Thursday agreed on a plan to loosen some parts of the state’s health care permitting law. The measure would allow the historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine to open a hospital in central Atlanta that could provide services once offered by the now-shuttered Atlanta Medical Center. Burt Jones, a Republican, has made it a priority …

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Bill Gates says new discoveries will happen at a rapid pace because of AI
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Bill Gates says new discoveries will happen at a rapid pace because of AI

India Today  

When interest in artificial intelligence began reaching great heights after the launch of ChatGPT, many tech experts believed that there would come a time when the technology will be a part of our everyday lives. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has often encouraged AI development, now says that there will be many discoveries in 2024 that will happen at a …

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Medical device industry asks Health Ministry to reconsider new regulatory Bill
1 year, 5 months ago

Medical device industry asks Health Ministry to reconsider new regulatory Bill

The Hindu  

An industry body for medical device manufacturers is opposing the Centre’s plan to bring the New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022 to Parliament in the upcoming monsoon session, and has written to Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, expressing its dismay. ‘Entirely different products’ The Association said that it was also strange that the Parliamentary Committee’s 138th report, released on …

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Want a night market in your neighborhood? This new bill could make it easier to start one
1 year, 5 months ago

Want a night market in your neighborhood? This new bill could make it easier to start one

LA Times  

Standing at the future site of San Francisco’s Sunset Night Market, California Assemblymember Matthew Haney on Monday announced AB 441, a new bill he plans to introduce that’s intended to remove barriers and make it easier for California cities and neighborhoods to host everything from farmers markets and flea markets to night markets that take inspiration from the open-air food …

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Anti-trans activists threaten Louisiana Republican who shot down gender-affirming care ban
1 year, 6 months ago

Anti-trans activists threaten Louisiana Republican who shot down gender-affirming care ban

The Independent  

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Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 7 months ago

Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— Bucking the trend of other reliably red states adopting restrictions on young transgender people, a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee voted Wednesday to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Proponents of Louisiana’s failed bill, which would have prohibited hormone treatments, gender-affirming surgery or puberty-blocking drugs for any transgender minor, say they fear …

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California lawmakers block bill making oil companies liable for some health problems
1 year, 7 months ago

California lawmakers block bill making oil companies liable for some health problems

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers blocked two big environmental bills Thursday: One that would have ramped up the state’s emissions targets, and another that would have made oil companies liable for the health problems of people who live close to oil wells. They decided if the oil industry wanted to block that law, then they would try to pass another …

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North Carolina Republicans approve 12-week abortion ban as sweeping restrictions spread across US South
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina Republicans approve 12-week abortion ban as sweeping restrictions spread across US South

The Independent  

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Nebraska conservatives gamble on combining abortion, trans health bans
1 year, 7 months ago

Nebraska conservatives gamble on combining abortion, trans health bans

Associated Press  

— Conservative Nebraska lawmakers are taking what could be an all-or-nothing bet by proposing to merge two of the legislative session’s most contentious proposals — one to restrict abortion and another that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. The unconventional move follows conservatives’ failure by a single vote last month to advance a bill that would have banned abortion at …

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Oregon lawmakers advance bill on abortion, trans health care
1 year, 7 months ago

Oregon lawmakers advance bill on abortion, trans health care

Associated Press  

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers have advanced a sweeping bill intended to protect abortion and gender-affirming health care for transgender people by boosting legal safeguards and expanding access and insurance coverage. Citing concerns about the wide-ranging scope of the bill — which addresses topics from minors’ access to abortion to emergency contraception at university student health centers to insurance coverage …

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Right to Health Bill: Private doctors call off strike in Rajasthan
1 year, 8 months ago

Right to Health Bill: Private doctors call off strike in Rajasthan

Hindustan Times  

Private doctors in Rajasthan on Tuesday called off their 17-day long strike after the state government agreed to keep unaided private hospitals out of the ambit of the Right to Health Bill. “It is a matter of happiness that the state government has agreed on the proposal placed before the doctors regarding the Right to Health Bill. According to the …

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Rajasthan doctors call off protest after consensus over Right to Health Bill
1 year, 8 months ago

Rajasthan doctors call off protest after consensus over Right to Health Bill

India Today  

Rajasthan private doctors on Tuesday decided to call off protests over the Right to Health Bill after reaching a consensus with the government. "After signing of MOU by IMA Rajasthan, UPCHAR AND PHNHS with the state government regarding RTH, which has excluded almost 97 to 98 % of private hospitals from the ambit of the RTH Bill, the state working …

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Ashok Gehlot accuses RSS-linked lobby of inciting protesting doctors in state
1 year, 8 months ago

Ashok Gehlot accuses RSS-linked lobby of inciting protesting doctors in state

Live Mint  

Rajasthan's Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, alleged that a "lobby" connected with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was encouraging and misleading private doctors who are protesting against the Right to Health Bill in the state. "The recommendations given by the doctors to the finance secretary were all agreed upon but later on some four to five doctors, who are associated with the …

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The roots of health bill row in Rajasthan
1 year, 8 months ago

The roots of health bill row in Rajasthan

Hindustan Times  

A new proposed law billed as a masterstroke by the Rajasthan government has triggered protests among doctors across the state this week. The new right to health bill states that a patient will be entitled to emergency treatment anywhere without prepayment of fees. While introducing the bill, state health minister PL Meena said that the legislation was brought in response …

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Mass leave announced by doctors in Rajasthan; medical services to be affected
1 year, 8 months ago

Mass leave announced by doctors in Rajasthan; medical services to be affected

Hindustan Times  

Medical services are likely to be seriously affected in Rajasthan on Wednesday with the government doctors and faculty members of medical colleges announcing to go on one-day mass leave in solidarity with private doctors agitating against the Right to Health Bill. Association's General secretary Dr Shankar Bamnia said more than 15,000 in-service doctors will go on one-day mass leave to …

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Rajasthan passes Right to Health Bill amid massive protests by doctors in Jaipur
1 year, 9 months ago

Rajasthan passes Right to Health Bill amid massive protests by doctors in Jaipur

India Today  

The Right to Health Bill, a major flashpoint between agitating doctors and the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government, was passed in the Rajasthan Assembly amid massive protests in Jaipur on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the doctors protesting against the Bill at Janpath were marching towards the Rajasthan Assembly, where the Budget session is underway, to force the government to take back the …

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Ahead of election, Gehlot govt's Right to Health Bill passed in Rajasthan Assembly
1 year, 9 months ago

Ahead of election, Gehlot govt's Right to Health Bill passed in Rajasthan Assembly

India TV News  

Ahead of the crucial election, Gehlot government's ambitious bill that gives every resident the right to free emergency treatment at public or designated private hospitals was passed in the Rajasthan Assembly on Tuesday. Now, every resident in Rajasthan will have the right to emergency treatment and care "without prepayment" at any "public health institution, health care establishment and designated health …

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California bill could mean more mentally ill people detained
1 year, 9 months ago

California bill could mean more mentally ill people detained

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More people in California could be detained against their will because of a mental illness under a new bill backed Wednesday by the mayors of some of the nation’s largest cities, who say they are struggling to care for the bulk of the country’s homeless population. A state law allows courts to order people into treatment, but …

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Rajasthan’s Right to Health Bill runs into rough weather before passage in State Assembly
1 year, 10 months ago

Rajasthan’s Right to Health Bill runs into rough weather before passage in State Assembly

The Hindu  

The Right to Health Bill, tabled in the Rajasthan Assembly on September 22, 2022 has run into rough weather before its passage during the ongoing Budget session, with private hospitals demanding its withdrawal because of the provision for mandatory free-of-cost emergency treatment. Private hospitals and nursing homes have started boycotting the State government’s health schemes, including the flagship Chiranjeevi Yojana, …

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