Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC: Policy Council for Children and Families. The Council gathered to address Council recruitment, hear a presentation on Family-Based Alternatives to the Institutionalization of Children, hear legislative updates from council members, and discuss the 2020 Legislative Report, including interim charges and opportunities. Read the full report here.
Looking Ahead
June 4, 2019: Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup
June 5, 2019: Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council Executive Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- The Texas Legislature passed bills reining in freestanding emergency rooms
- Another Bill Expanding Adult Stem Cell Therapies Passed Unanimously to Governor
- DFPS head Hank Whitman announces departure
- No one knows exactly why rural East Texas faces high suicide rates. And resources to help are scarce.
US
- Poll: One in four Americans say cost led to skipping medical care
- Colorado Bans ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Minors
- FDA holds its first hearing on regulating CBD
- Congress Weighs Whether to Allow Guantánamo Prisoners to Travel to the U.S. for Medical Care
- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $300 million in talc cancer case
- A Drug Prolonged Life in Younger Women With Advanced Breast Cancer
- Michigan doctor lauded for work on opioid crisis accused of overprescribing drugs
- ‘Become My Mom Again’: What It’s Like to Grow Up Amid the Opioid Crisis
- Utah proposes new cap on Medicaid spending
- For Millions of American Women, Abortion Access Is Out of Reach
- Illinois bill to legalize recreational marijuana wins legislative approval
- Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Can Keep Providing the Procedure, for Now
- Measles Cases Reach Highest Level in More Than 25 Years, C.D.C. Says
- Listen to What Doctors, in a Time of ‘Crisis,’ Said Behind Closed Doors