MENTAL HEALTH: From WellShare International and UCare via Facebook, VERBATIM: “Don’t miss this powerful conversation on mental health, featuring Lily Saenz Romero and our amazing host Yesenia Mata, as they share insight, guidance, and support on this vital topic.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/45CSpzX (SPONSORED: UCare)
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POLL: Via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “A new poll finds most Minnesota Republicans support the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific research, and potentially to Medicaid. The latest Star Tribune/Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication Minnesota Poll found that 74% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters support cuts to federal research grants, compared with only 4% of Democrats. A similar divide exists over proposed cuts to Medicaid, which could reduce taxpayer spending but jeopardize health benefits for thousands of Minnesotans.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4ljGlJ3
VACCINATIONS: Via Harvard, VERBATIM: “In the midst of a multi-state measles outbreak, a new poll by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation finds that most U.S. adults (79%) say parents should be required to have children vaccinated against preventable diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella to attend school. This includes a majority of adults across party lines—90% among Democrats and 68% among Republicans—as well as 66% of those who support the ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) movement. It also includes 72% of all parents.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3TedlG5
MORE: Via The Dallas Morning News, VERBATIM: “Of the approximately 1 in 5 U.S. adults who do not support childhood vaccine requirements, the poll found, less than half are worried about vaccine safety. Instead, the most common reason for not supporting requirements was a concern about parental choice.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4k8WAXC
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BROOKLYN CENTER: Via CCX Media, VERBATIM: “Travelers will find fewer places to stay in Brooklyn Center after the city council revoked the license for a hotel that was also operating a medical clinic. Suburban Studios by Choice Hotels, an extended stay hotel located at 2701 Freeway Blvd, had its hospitality accommodation license revoked on Monday, June 23 . . . Brooklyn Center city staff members say they visited the Suburban Studios hotel on June 2 for a routine fire alarm call. Upon arriving, they found full-time medical staff on-site operating a business called Care Chexx Recuperative Care Facility.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3TKKqcM
SHOOTINGS: Via WCCO-TV, VERBATIM: “So far this year, Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis has cared for 72 gunshot victims, including 12 children. ‘The trend in the past few weeks or month or two has been more concerning,’ said Dr. Derek Lumbard, Hennepin Healthcare trauma surgeon. ‘In the past few weeks alone, there's been an increase in number of firearm injuries coming through our hospital door.’ A rise in gun violence is putting doctors on edge after several years of decline. Lumbard says the numbers they are seeing so far this year are putting the city ahead of schedule, and if this trend continues, there will be no decline in shooting victims. The solution is already in motion, with trauma care working together with violence prevention programs.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3TKM0eI
PROJECTIONS: Via Becker’s Hospital Review, VERBATIM: “CMS projects national healthcare spending to reach $5.6 trillion this year amid continued strong healthcare utilization growth, and then climb to $8.6 trillion by 2033 . . . National health spending is projected to have grown 8.2% in 2024, according to CMS. This includes Medicare expenditures, which were expected to have grown 8.3% in 2024, while Medicaid spending growth was projected to have grown 6.2%, compared with 7.9% in 2023.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4nmIOng
MEDICAID SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OF US: Medicaid keeps Minnesota’s hospitals strong and ensures communities across the state have access to care. Policymakers must protect Medicaid so every Minnesotan — regardless of income or health status — can get the care they need, when they need it. LEARN MORE: https://fluence-media.co/3FtrCuH (SPONSORED: Minnesota Hospital Association)
LONG-TERM CARE: Via KFF Health News, VERBATIM: “The long-term health care industry is facing a double whammy from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants and the GOP’s proposals to reduce Medicaid spending. The industry is highly dependent on foreign workers: More than 800,000 immigrants and naturalized citizens comprise 28% of direct care employees at home care agencies, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term care companies. But in January, the Trump administration rescinded former President Joe Biden’s 2021 policy that protected health care facilities from Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44zgu9L
PROTEST: Via Scripps News, VERBATIM: “U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protesters on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending. Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda. The room is part of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.” WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3ZLXvWY
HOSPITALS: Via The Hill, VERBATIM: “Senate Republicans including Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) say a new proposal to create a $15 billion relief fund for rural hospitals is not adequate to make up for tens of billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding cuts included in the Senate megabill to enact President Trump’s agenda. Collins told reporters Wednesday that the $15 billion relief fund floated by the Senate Finance Committee is likely not the final offer from Senate Republican leaders to address the concerns of several senators who worry the bill’s cap on health care provider taxes could put scores of rural hospitals out of business around the country.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3ZR68zp
CDC: Via Associated Press, VERBATIM: “Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told senators Wednesday that she values vaccines, public health interventions and rigorous scientific evidence, but largely sidestepped questions about widespread cuts to the agency, elimination of programs and whether she disagreed with any of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions to date.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3T8tk8D
VACCINE PANEL: Via CNN, VERBATIM: “At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will create new work groups to study the cumulative effects of the childhood and adolescent vaccine schedules, the hepatitis B vaccine dose given at birth and the combination measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine, new chair Dr. Martin Kulldorff announced at Wednesday’s meeting in Atlanta.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3ZLRpWA
MORE: Via The New York Times, VERBATIM: “Two weeks ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of an influential committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should get. He then named eight new members, at least half of whom have expressed some skepticism about vaccines.
By Tuesday night, the panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, was down to seven members. Dr. Michael Ross, a physician licensed in Virginia who is a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology, withdrew from the committee.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3HZyyRO
MORE: Via WCCO-Radio, VERBATIM: “Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and one of the foremost experts on infectious disease in the U.S. is one of those advocates. He tells WCCO's Adam and Jordana that the reason they formed a Vaccine Integrity Project immediately following the 2024 Presidential Election, was the knowledge that vaccinations would be a target of the Trump administration and his choice of Kennedy to lead the HHS Department.” OSTERHOLM: "And we did that right after the first of the year to provide an alternative source of science-based, unbiased information on vaccines so that clinicians, whether they be doctors, nurses, or pharmacists, would have accurate information. And so nothing that's happening here, right now with the administration, should be a surprise to anyone." LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4nniysY
ESSENTIA HEALTH INVESTS IN TWIN PORTS NURSES: Total payroll for Essentia Health Duluth-Superior nurses is $164 million, with $53 million paid in salary increases over the past 3 years. Essentia Health has also increased clinical support staff by 10% over the past 3 years, providing additional support for those nurses. Over half of Duluth area nurses have been with us for over 5 years and enjoy exceptional work-life balance. To join our team at Essentia Health, search for openings HERE: https://fluence-media.co/3FzLe0i (SPONSORED: Essentia Health)
GENDER: Via The 19th, VERBATIM: “The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth dealt a painful blow to families of trans kids — but the fight is not over. LGBTQ+ rights attorneys say that even as the Trump administration makes it harder for trans Americans to live without fear of discrimination, there are still openings — some left by the court ruling itself — to fight gender-affirming care bans and other anti-trans laws. The court ruling is narrow enough that it provides a road map to new strategies.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4nqoBx2
MORE: Via San Francisco Chronicle, VERBATIM: “Stanford Medicine has stopped providing gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 years old — becoming the second major health care provider in California to scale back transgender care for youths amid efforts by the Trump administration to restrict access to the specialized care.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3TwUCG1
FIRED: Via Associated Press, VERBATIM: “The federal agency charged with protecting workers’ civil rights has terminated a New York administrative judge who opposed White House directives, including President Donald Trump’s executive order decreeing male and female as two ‘immutable’ sexes. In February, Administrative Judge Karen Ortiz, who worked in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York office, called Trump’s order ‘unethical’ and criticized Acting Chair Andrea Lucas — Trump’s pick to lead the agency — for complying with it by pausing work on legal cases involving discrimination claims from transgender workers. In an email copied to more than 1,000 colleagues, Ortiz pressed Lucas to resign.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4k9a4Te
FRESH15: The latest season of Fresh15 includes interviews with new Minnesota House members. So far, five new members have shared their goals, background and fun facts before they take office in a historic session this January.
Rep. Kari Rehrauer
Rep. Wayne Johnson
Rep. Julie Greene
Rep. Keith Allen
Rep. Peter Johnson
Follow on your favorite podcast platform, or at www.TheDailyAgenda.com/Podcasts. (SPONSORED: Minnesota Telecom Alliance)
CANCER: Via Mayo Clinic, VERBATIM: “Little is known about what causes ovarian cancer, and there is no way to detect it early yet. About 75% of the time when someone is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it has already progressed to stage 3 or stage 4, which means it has spread to other parts of the body. Mayo Clinic physicians, researchers and patients had been working together to learn more about this devastating disease when a 22-year-old patient, who has two rare genetic conditions that dramatically elevate lifetime cancer risk, came to Mayo Clinic. The patient carries a hereditary BRCA2 mutation, which is one of the genes that causes hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome, and a hereditary TP53 mutation, which causes Li-Fraumeni syndrome.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/45BXoAW
SCREEN TIME: Via CNN, VERBATIM: “Does your child not listen to you? Do they kick and scream when they get angry? You may need to rethink their screen time, according to an article published Monday in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. The more time kids spent looking at a screen, the more likely their actions and feelings didn’t meet expectations for their stage of development, according to a meta-analysis of 117 studies of kids younger than 10½ when the research began. These socioemotional problems included anxiety, depression, hyperactivity and aggression. The association was small but significant, especially for girls.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44ykHdL
VAPES: Via San Francisco Chronicle, VERBATIM: “Some popular disposable e-cigarettes emit toxic metals at levels that surpass those found in traditional cigarettes and earlier generations of vapes, according to a new study by researchers at UC Davis. The study, published Wednesday in ACS Central Science, found that a single day’s use of one disposable device released more lead than nearly 20 packs of conventional cigarettes.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/44itiA3
CAFFEINE: From Queen Mary University via Science Daily, VERBATIM: “A new study from the Cellular Ageing and Senescence laboratory at Queen Mary University of London's Cenfre for Molecular Cell Biology, reveals how caffeine -- the world's most popular neuroactive compound -- might do more than just wake you up. The study in the journal Microbial Cell shows how caffeine could play a role in slowing down the ageing process at a cellular level.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4lLpQoX
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DIET: From Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine via Science Daily, VERBATIM: “Swap steaks for spinach and you might watch the scale plummet. In a 16-week crossover study, overweight adults who ditched animal products for a low-fat vegan menu saw their bodies become less acidic and dropped an average of 13 pounds—while the Mediterranean diet left weight unchanged. Researchers link the shift to lower ‘dietary acid load,’ a hidden inflammation trigger driven by meat, eggs, and cheese.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4eGGrId
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