Oklahoma Seeks To Set Temperature Standards For Shipped Medications

NBC News:
Oklahoma Proposes Landmark Rule To Keep Mailed Medications Safe From Extreme Temperatures

Patients who get their prescription medicines by mail in Oklahoma might quickly have higher protections for the protection of these medicine than some other state. On Wednesday, Oklahoma regulators proposed the nation’s first detailed rule to manage temperatures throughout delivery, in response to pharmacy consultants. (Kaplan, 11/17)

CNN:
As Measles Outbreak Sickens Children In Ohio, Local Health Officials Seek Help From CDC

A rising measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened dozens of unvaccinated youngsters and hospitalized 9 of them, and native public well being officers are in search of help from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We asked the CDC for assistance and they will be sending two epidemiologists at the end of the month to assist with our local investigation,” Kelli Newman, a spokesperson for Columbus Public Health, informed CNN in an e-mail Thursday. (Howard, 11/17)

AP:
Maine Backtracks On Guidance For Medical Marijuana Sales

Maine is backing down from a few of its steering for the medical marijuana business by permitting the sale of pre-rolled merchandise to renew. The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy final month banned medical marijuana caregivers with no storefront from offering pre-rolled merchandise, and elevated the age restrict for pre-rolled merchandise offered in shops from 18 to 21, the identical because the age restrict for leisure marijuana buy. The steering on the time advised {that a} tobacco license was wanted. (11/17)

The Boston Globe:
$130 Million Made Available For Health Worker Loan Repayment

According to a launch from the Baker administration, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services has contracted with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to distribute the funds. The cash was allotted from American Rescue Plan Act funding and from the Opioid Recovery and Remediation Trust Fund, which was established with proceeds from settlements with drugmakers that helped gasoline the opioid epidemic. (Bartlett, 11/17)

The Boston Globe:
‘Our Emergency Food System Shouldn’t Have To Serve 40 Percent Of Massachusetts Families’: Food Aid Programs Showing Few Signs Of Diminishing

Although COVID-19 has eased, the heightened want for meals help that it spawned is exhibiting few indicators of abating, in response to leaders of some native and regional meals help packages and space organizations. (Laidler, 11/17)

Detroit Free Press:
Ex-Michigan Health Chief Asks Court To End Flint Water Saga

Lawyers for Michigan’s former well being director are urging an appeals courtroom to rapidly cease an effort to revive legal costs associated to the Flint water disaster of 2014-15. (White, 11/17)