Public Health

President Joe Biden has declared June a "national month of action," laying out further efforts to meet his deadline of 70 percent of U.S. adults vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 4.

South Dakota organizations are working with national nonprofit The Fairness Project to get a Medicaid expansion initiative on the 2022 ballot, according to Forbes.

New Mexico is rolling out a COVID-19 lottery program that will offer one COVID-19 vaccine recipient a $5 million grand prize, representing one of the largest such awards being offered in the nation, reports The New York Times.

The National Institutes of Health has launched an early stage clinical trial evaluating the response when someone who has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 later gets a different type of booster shot. 

The CDC's eased mask restrictions haven't yet been tied to any new COVID-19 surges, according to data tracked by The New York Times.

A little-known yet serious autonomic nervous system disorder is surfacing among an unknown number of COVID-19 long-haulers, or people who experience persistent or worsening symptoms long after the infection has cleared, Kaiser Health News reported June 1.

Chinese health officials on June 1 confirmed the world's first known human infection from a strain of bird flu called H10N3, The New York Times reported.

Here Dr. Brian Patty, MD discusses the current landscape for Precision Medicine and Value-Based Care.

Some ophthalmologists are seeing an uptick in new or worsening cases of myopia, or nearsightedness, among children, The Wall Street Journal reported June 1. 

Dayton, Ohio-based health plan CareSource will pay Medicaid members in its Indiana market $20 to become fully vaccinated.