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Squabble grows as US government holds back 2024 funding from world anti-doping watchdog WADA
Read full article: Squabble grows as US government holds back 2024 funding from world anti-doping watchdog WADAThe U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.6 million due to the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2024, making good on a long-running threat anchored in unhappiness with the global watchdogās handling of cases involving Chinese swimmers and others.
This Week in South Florida Podcast: November 26, 2023
Read full article: This Week in South Florida Podcast: November 26, 2023On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg welcomes newly voted in Miami commissioners Miguel Gabela and Damian Pardo, sports betting legal expert Daniel Wallach and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Band Director Steve Rivero.
This Week in South Florida Podcast: November 19, 2023
Read full article: This Week in South Florida Podcast: November 19, 2023On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Israel Consul General Maor Elbaz Starinsky, White House Director of National Drug Control Police Dr. Rahul Gupta and Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission Jose Arrojo.
This Week in South Florida Full Episode: November 19, 2023
Read full article: This Week in South Florida Full Episode: November 19, 2023On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Israel Consul General Maor Elbaz Starinsky, White House Director of National Drug Control Police Dr. Rahul Gupta and Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission Jose Arrojo.
Correction: Emerging Drug Threat story
Read full article: Correction: Emerging Drug Threat storyIn an April 12 story about the emerging drug threat designation for substances containing xylazine and fentanyl, The Associated Press erroneously described the group Drug Policy Alliance as advocating the harm caused by drugs.
US plans to allow Medicaid for drug treatment in prisons
Read full article: US plans to allow Medicaid for drug treatment in prisonsThe Biden administration is planning to reverse longstanding policy and allow the use of Medicaid to treat jail and prison inmates' substance use disorders and certain other health conditions.
Biden to focus on vets, cancer patients, others in speech
Read full article: Biden to focus on vets, cancer patients, others in speechThe White House says President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address to call for new steps to help veterans and cancer patients, fight drug addition and provide more access to mental health care.
J&J's Janssen settles with WVa for $99M in opioid lawsuit
Read full article: J&J's Janssen settles with WVa for $99M in opioid lawsuitWest Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized with Johnson & Johnsonās subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. The state filed a lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of contributing to the opioid crisis in the state that's led the nation in overdose deaths.
US drug czar testifies in WVa lawsuit against opioid makers
Read full article: US drug czar testifies in WVa lawsuit against opioid makersThe new White House drug czar has testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care for children.
No money for drug pipes: Feds douse social media firestorm
Read full article: No money for drug pipes: Feds douse social media firestormThe Biden administration says a government grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.
Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czar
Read full article: Biden picks ex-West Virginia health official as drug czarPresident Joe Biden is nominating West Virginiaās former health commissioner as the nationās top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nationās opioid epidemic.
CDC: US fertility rate falls to 'all-time low'
Read full article: CDC: US fertility rate falls to 'all-time low'"The 2018 general fertility rate fell to another all-time low for the United States," the researchers wrote in the report, published Wednesday. The report found that the general fertility rate dropped 2% between 2017 and 2018 among girls and women age 15 to 44 nationwide. America's fertility rate and the number of births nationwide have been on the decline in recent years. However, it does not fully explain the increase in the preterm birth rate. "There is a lot more work that needs to be done as the preterm birth rate continues to rise."