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HealthPlatform.News(letter)
October 6, 2025
In this week’s edition of health news across the states: Raw milk sales gaining attention, Children’s hospital caught in North Carolina budget battle, Bipartisan coalition to prevent health premium spike, ACIP recommendations could affect vaccines.
Plus: Stephen Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: New multi-cancer early detection screenings can save lives
Ohio state Reps. Kellie Deeter (R-Norwalk) and Levi Dean (R-Xenia) have introduced a bill to allow for the sale of raw milk to consumers in the state, subject to certain health-related regulations.
North Carolina lawmakers remain deadlocked on the state budget, with Medicaid funding and support for a new children’s hospital at the center of the standoff between the two chambers.
A bipartisan group of 21 federal lawmakers is pushing to extend tax subsidies for insurance plans that are purchased by self-employed workers and small business owners.
The newly constituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met shortly after five additional members were appointed, voting to change recommendations on COVID-19 and childhood immunizations.
Cancer will not be beaten without hard-fought biomedical innovation, both in the development of technologies to screen for cancers and therapeutics to treat them. However, only five types of cancer — breast, cervical, colorectal, prostate and “high-risk” lung (collectively accounting for about 40 percent of U.S. cancer incidence) — currently have guideline-recommended screening options available today. This means that the vast majority of cancers — including blood, head and neck, pancreatic, ovarian and liver cancers — have no guideline-recommended screening tests available.
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