California set to become first state to provide free health care to all low-income immigrants
The move will make low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status.
Healthcare
Missouri voters approve Medicaid healthcare expansion
Voters made Missouri the 38th state to approve expanding Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults. As many as 250,000 more adults could choose to be covered by government health insurance beginning in July 2021.
California becomes the first state in the U.S. to expand health coverage to undocumented residents
The plan will provide Medicaid coverage to approximately 90,000 undocumented residents between ages 19 and 25.
Research successfully transplant lab-grown lungs in pigs
Eventually, bioengineered lungs could replace donor ones altogether. And that could make the transplant waiting list a thing of the past.
Prehistoric dental treatment documented at a burial site in northern Italy
Around 12,000 B.C.E., a young hunter-gatherer in what’s now northern Italy had a painful cavity in his back molar — and someone tried to fix it. Using a pointed flint tool, they scratched and levered inside the decay, leaving microscopic marks still visible 14,000 years later. It’s the oldest known attempt at treating a cavity.