{"id":845161,"date":"2026-09-12T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:06:19","slug":"500-obamacare-platinum-chemo-ada-boycott-morning-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845161\/","title":{"rendered":"$500 Obamacare, platinum chemo, ADA boycott: Morning Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good morning. Chelsea Cirruzzo here. Today we remember 25 years since the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. While I was too young to have many recollections of the attack, I did grow up in New York and vividly remember the impact it had on the people around me. So, I always take the time each year to reflect. <\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019ve published a First Opinion essay<\/a> by a thoracic surgeon in New York City who treats first responders still facing extraordinary health challenges after being exposed to the toxic aftermath of ground zero. I hope you spend time with it, too.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s $500 Obamacare promise\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Trump has promised to send $500 refund checks to nearly 1 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans, who also happen to live mostly in swing states, with checks arriving ahead of the midterms. <\/p>\n

The checks will only go out to people who don\u2019t receive federal subsidies for their insurance plans \u2014 after Republicans declined to extend enhanced ACA premiums that expired at the end of last year. <\/p>\n

The White House said the money will help \u201cAmericans most exposed to the higher costs imposed by the Biden administration\u2019s gross mismanagement of Obamacare.\u201d <\/p>\n

People are eligible for the $500 if they live in one of the 30 states<\/a> that use the federal government\u2019s ACA marketplace, such as Ohio and Florida. It\u2019s unclear whether only people with current coverage qualify, or whether people who had plans in the past may also get checks.<\/p>\n

My colleagues Bob Herman and Tara Bannow have more on the unclear legality<\/a> of the move.<\/p>\n

Can AI catch a heart attack? The FDA thinks so\u00a0<\/p>\n

A number of artificial intelligence algorithms have promised to help identify and treat heart conditions early, but how about when a patient is actively having a heart attack? Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a rare de novo classification<\/a> to an algorithm from Powerful Medical that aims to help triage patients to the right care when they\u2019re having chest pain. The vast majority of AI devices go to market through the FDA\u2019s 510(k) clearance pathway; fewer than 10 each year receive de novo classification, which typically requires more clinical evidence. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the new algorithm, Queen of Hearts, works: It can detect patterns indicating a patient is experiencing the most severe kind of heart attack, when a coronary artery, which supplies blood to the heart, is completely blocked off. In doing so, it can help doctors make sure a patient gets treatment as soon as possible to open up the blockage and restore oxygen to the heart. <\/p>\n

My colleague Katie Palmer has more on what it means for patients and doctors<\/a> if we can more quickly detect these ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction patterns with an EKG.<\/p>\n

A valuable childhood cancer treatment with long-term implications\u00a0<\/p>\n

A platinum-based treatment for children with certain cancers can be a lifeline, but it can also cause healthy cells to mutate, potentially increasing the risk of new cancers later in life, my colleague Annalisa Merelli reports. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a new study published Thursday in Science<\/a>, seeking a clearer understanding of the long-term impact of platinum agents in children treated for hepatoblastoma, a rare cancer of the liver that is most commonly diagnosed in childhood.<\/p>\n

The study looked at children who had received platinum therapy followed by surgery to remove the tumor. Researchers sampled both healthy and cancerous liver tissue and blood from the patients and compared the results to samples from children given different treatments. <\/p>\n

What they found were hundreds of mutations in the samples exposed to platinum, usually found in adult livers. In other words, platinum aged the liver cells of treated children, making them look more like adult liver cells. <\/p>\n

Read on<\/a> for what this means for long-term monitoring and treatment.<\/p>\n

Sorry to burst your (bouncy castle) bubble\u00a0<\/p>\n

What kid doesn\u2019t love getting to carom around in a bouncy castle? But the inflated structures could be the source of skin infections, an investigation into a large outbreak of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus \u2014 more commonly known as MRSA \u2014 in eastern Ireland reveals.<\/p>\n

About four dozen children who attended a community party in August 2025 later developed skin and soft tissue lesions and abscesses caused by the bacterium, Irish public health officials reported Thursday in the online journal Eurosurveillance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event, attended by about 120 adults and children, featured three bouncy castles. Many of the kids reportedly spent considerable time \u2014 hours, even \u2014 playing in them. About a quarter of the cases had symptoms beyond skin lesions, such as fever, nausea, or vomiting. Four of the infected kids were admitted to the hospital, though all recovered. One of the infected children hadn\u2019t attended the party but had close contact with a child who had.<\/p>\n

The MRSA outbreak is the largest on record in Ireland. \u2014 Helen Branswell<\/p>\n

Boycott launched against Diabetes Association includes journal\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the latest escalation of members protesting how the American Diabetes Association has handled the removal of members<\/a> from its June meeting, four editors of the ADA\u2019s flagship journal will no longer review manuscript submissions. Their move is part of a boycott announced Thursday<\/a> against the professional organization.<\/p>\n

Steven Kahn, the editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care<\/a>, is one of the five members who were ousted from the conference center in New Orleans for handing out copies of an editorial<\/a> published in the journal about federal cuts to research funding. The other editors are Cheryl Anderson of UC San Diego, John Buse of the University of North Carolina, and Elizabeth Selvin of Johns Hopkins. At issue are the expulsions, the immediate response by ADA leadership, and the summer-long review of what happened. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of the efforts taking place,\u201d an ADA spokesperson said. \u201cWe remain focused on serving the millions of people counting on us to deliver on our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kahn told STAT their actions are effectively \u201ca strike against a major corporation.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cExcept we\u2019re seeing this now as a boycott by members of a nonprofit organization, where the leadership of the organization is operating like a corporate board, rather than leadership of a membership organization, and the membership has said, \u2018We\u2019ve had enough,\u2019\u201d he said. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/p>\n

Opinion: I\u2019m a public health communications consultant. Pro-vaccine advocacy needs more fun, STAT<\/a> <\/p>\n

Federal officials poised to declare end of U.S.\u2019s largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak, the Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropic says it blocked possible efforts to build biological weapons, the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Oz\u2019s Medicaid fraud war room is prompting \u2018aggressive\u2019 state crackdowns, Politico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-845161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}