New York Times - Health

As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, researchers worry there won’t be enough room in nursing facilities for a rapidly graying nation.

Ahead of the midterm elections, the president said that all states had opted in to an effort to align Medicaid’s prices for medicines with those in other wealthy countries.In his remarks Friday, President Trump framed the effort as a way for states to save money that could be reinvested in providing health care.

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Dallas last week. On Thursday, Mr. Kennedy plunged headlong into the topic of vaccines, in a conference riddled with misinformation.

The Democratic candidate for governor backed restrictions on disposal of fracking wastewater around a hard-hit town, and called for a “thorough investigation” of the dangers.Ohio has become a destination for the underground disposal of fracking wastewater, much of it from nearby Pennsylvania. In Ohio, it is damaging some natural-gas wells.

The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.Caroline Blanchard, a nurse practitioner in New Orleans, has the lung cancer gene, known as EGFR T790M. One in 15,000 people in the United States have it.