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HealthPlatform.News(letter)
October 13, 2025
In this week’s edition of health news across the states: Study of a supercentenarian after death, Researchers alarmed by drug-resistant ‘nightmare bacteria’, Telehealth shut down for Medicare recipients
Plus: Miriam O’Day, the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC): Why Ohio needs the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact
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A new study of a woman who lived to 117 may yield clues to healthy aging.
Researchers studied blood, saliva, urine and stool samples from Maria Branyas Morera — a Spanish woman believed to be the world’s oldest until her death last year — and compared them to sample results from other people, young and old.
A rare but dangerous drug-resistant bacterium is spreading rapidly in U.S. hospitals, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report. Infections caused by NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter ales (NDM-CRE) jumped more than 460% in recent years — a spike that researchers call alarming.
Medicare recipients are no longer covered for telehealth visits as of Oct. 1.
Telehealth Medicare flexibility was set to expire by Sept. 30 unless extended by Congress. Lawmakers failed to do so amid contentions over the passage of an appropriations bill. The subsequent government shutdown began the same day.
Respiratory Care Interstate Compact (RCIC) is a forward-looking policy solution that addresses licensure portability while also strengthening patient access to care. As healthcare systems increasingly span state boundaries, Ohio can lead in modernizing licensure and ensuring patients benefit from timely access to highly skilled respiratory therapists.
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