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Social Media Bans Could Deny Teenagers Mental Health Help

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Congress and state legislatures are considering age bans and other limits for Instagram and TikTok out of concern that they harm kids鈥 mental health. But some researchers and pediatricians question whether there鈥檚 enough data to support that conclusion.

It鈥檚 a Bird. It鈥檚 a Plane. It鈥檚 a Medical Response Drone.

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What if the first responder on the scene of a cardiac arrest were a drone carrying an automated external defibrillator? When every second counts, public safety professionals are increasingly eyeing drones 鈥 which can fly 60 miles an hour and don鈥檛 get stuck in traffic 鈥 to deliver help faster than an ambulance or EMT. […]

California Forges Ahead With Social Media Rules Despite Legal Barriers

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State lawmakers are advancing two bills aimed at protecting children from the harms of social media, part of a nationwide wave of efforts to address the issue. Yet the bills鈥 proponents face hurdles in finding an approach that can survive legal challenges from the tech industry.

911 Faces Its Own Emergency

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The national 911 emergency response system is in the midst of its own code red. The lack of federal funding to upgrade aging 911 systems has created significant disparities in state emergency response services, with older operations plagued by outages and longer response times. Last month, for instance, Massachusetts was hit with a statewide 911 […]

When Hospital Cyberattacks Compromise Care, Not Just Data

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When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering. 鈥淲e鈥檝e started to think about these as public health issues and disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes,鈥 said Jeff Tully, a co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at the University of California at […]

驴C贸mo Se Dice? California Loops In AI To Translate Health Care Information

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State officials want to use artificial intelligence to translate public health care and social services documents and websites, which they say will speed up translations, save money, and improve Californians鈥 access to critical information. But some IT and language experts worry AI may introduce errors in wording and understanding.

杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News' 'What the Health?': Bird Flu Lands as the Next Public Health Challenge

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Public health authorities are closely watching an unusual strain of bird flu that has infected dairy cows in nine states and at least one dairy worker. Meanwhile, another major health system suffered a cyberattack, and Congress is moving to extend the availability of telehealth services. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Atul Grover of the Association of American Medical Colleges about its recent analysis showing that graduating medical students are avoiding training in states with abortion bans and major restrictions.