Where Americans Saw Information About Tax and Budget Legislation on Social Media, and False Measles Narratives Target Immigrants — The Monitor

This volume shares findings from KFF’s latest poll on how the public encountered information about the recently passed tax and budget legislation; misleading narratives blaming undocumented immigrants for the current measles outbreak; misrepresentations of vaccine safety systems; claims that climate change isn’t real following deadly Texas flooding; and confusion around statins for preventing heart disease.

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Residency and Parenting Are Incompatible

By EMILY JOHNSON  Being a parent during residency requires one or more of the following: ●     Family and/or friends nearby who are willing and able to provide free childcare ●     A stay-at-home spouse/co-parent ●     A spouse/co-parent who is willing to let their own career to be a distant second…

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How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion?

This analysis estimates that 1.4 million uninsured individuals in the ten states without Medicaid expansion, including many working adults, people of color, and those with disabilities, remain in the “coverage gap,” ineligible for Medicaid or for tax credits that would make coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces affordable to them.

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Cancer Biotech Repare Therapeutics Restructures to Focus on Clinical-Stage Pipeline

Repare Therapeutics is cutting discovery and preclinical work to focus on its clinical-stage cancer drugs. The most advanced program is camonsertib, whose rights Repare recently regained from Roche after the pharma giant terminated an alliance started in 2022. The post Cancer Biotech Repare Therapeutics Restructures to Focus on Clinical-Stage Pipeline appeared first on MedCity News.

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