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HHS Drop Masking Requirements for Head Start
The Office of Head Start (OHS), a federal program within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides preschool and childcare services to low-income families, announced Friday that it will soon repeal universal masking rules for grants. Did. Receiver.
- In a statement provided to The Hill, an HHS spokesperson said: This aligns the Head Start program’s masking requirements more closely with updated CDC guidance. “
- The decision comes about a month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued more lenient COVID-19 guidance on some mitigation measures such as masking and quarantining.
“Overall, we are delighted to see this. , we are very pleased to be updated,” said Tommy Sheridan, deputy director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA).
However, children and teachers in the Head Start program are still required to adhere to mask-wearing mandates. Despite the latest CDC guidance.
OHS and ACF Encourage Centers to “Continue to Use Combinations of Tools to Reduce Risk of COVID-19,” Pointing to Latest CDC Guidance in Communication to Head Start Grant Recipients Did.
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Washington governor signs bill to severely restrict abortion
West Virginia’s (Republican) Governor Jim Justice Friday signed into law a law banning abortions only in cases of rape, incest, or medical emergencies.
- justice said in a tweet The bill was announced for signature as a “life-saving bill”.
- “I said from the beginning that if WV lawmakers brought me a bill that protected lives and contained reasonable and logical exceptions, I would sign it. That’s what I did today.” he said.
Both houses of the state legislature approved the ban on Tuesday, with the state Senate voting 22-7 and the state House of Representatives voting 77-17. With the signature of justice, the law comes into force immediately and criminal penalties come into force after 90 days.
Regulations: The law outright prohibits abortion unless the patient is a victim of rape or incest, notifies law enforcement, and undergoes the procedure by eight weeks of gestation. Minors in any of these situations can have an abortion up to 14 weeks gestation after reporting to law enforcement and receiving treatment from a licensed professional or hospital.
Abortion is also permitted in “medical emergencies” and when the fetus is medically incapable of survival.
Penalties: Licensed health care providers found to have illegally performed abortions are not subject to jail time, but may lose their medical license. If someone who is not qualified to perform an abortion, such as a nurse, is found to have performed the abortion, they can be charged with a felony, and from 90 he can be sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for her to 10 years.
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A Promising Experimental Treatment for Autoimmune Diseases
New autoimmune therapies use your own cells to find and correct other defective cells. It is an answer for patients who have not responded to other treatments and may be a cure for diseases such as lupus.
In a study published Thursday in Nature, researchers genetically engineered and reinfused a patient’s immune cells. So each person got their own cells back as a cure. This type of treatment, called CAR T-cell therapy, changes T cells to recognize specific proteins on the surface of B cells. This protein produces antibodies that mistakenly attack healthy cells.
Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the body’s immune system attacks other cells in the body, causing symptoms such as inflammation. It is caused by antibodies that
Researchers were able to administer CAR T-cell therapy to five lupus patients with a median age of 22 years.
After about 100 days, the patient was able to produce new B cells that did not make autoantibodies. The patient was in drug-free remission for a median of 8 months and up to 12 months after treatment.
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Adolescents more likely to develop asthma if fathers were exposed to second-hand smoke
Air pollution is detrimental to lung health, especially when it’s constant indoors. For example, exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarettes can trigger asthma attacks in children. New research suggests the impact could be felt just one generation away from her.
A study published in the European Respiratory Journal looked at data on 1,689 children growing up in Tasmania from the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study dating back to 1968.
They also had information about whether the child’s father had been exposed to secondhand smoke from a parent before age 15.
Researchers found an increased risk of non-allergic asthma in children.
59% if the father was exposed to secondhand smoke as a child, compared to children whose father was not exposed to secondhand smoke.
If the father was exposed to second-hand smoke and continued to smoke himself, the child’s risk of developing asthma was even higher at 72%.
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Billboard campaign promoting access to abortion in California
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, launched billboard ad campaigns in several risky states on Thursday to promote access to abortion in the Golden State.
“We have launched signs in seven of the most restrictive anti-abortion states explaining how women can access care wherever they live,” Newsom said in a tweet. “To all women seeking abortions in these anti-free states: CA defends your right to make decisions about your own health.”
Crossing State Lines: Signs in Texas, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Oklahoma advertise the state’s new reproductive health website.
- The website abortion.ca.gov provides information on access to abortion in California, including travel to get an abortion. Newsom announced the launch of its website on Tuesday, just hours after Senator Lindsay Graham, R.S.C., announced a new law banning her 15-week nationwide abortion ban.
- Newsom’s new billboard campaign reads, “Texas doesn’t own your body. You do.” and “Need an abortion? California is ready to help.” It quotes Bible verses often quoted by opposition activists. There is no more commandment. ”
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what we are reading
- Best to get new boosters before Halloween, says White House COVID coordinator Dr. Jar (ABC News)
- EU regulators support widespread use of AstraZeneca’s COVID treatment (Reuters)
- Covid-19 in older adults linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, study finds (Washington Post)
by state
- Disability programs promised to lift people out of poverty. Instead, it left many homeless (Kaiser Health News)
- “Middle Virginia Matters” – State Investigates Inappropriate Use of Mental Health Crisis Services (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
- Missouri hospitals are in ‘crisis’ due to mental health facility (KCUR) staff shortages
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