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and we begin this morning with breaking news on capitol hill. where a major defense bill has been turned into a debate over social issues. overnight, the republican-led house passed a series of amendments to nearly $900 billion defense policy bill. the amendments include overturning the pentagon's abortion policy, banning transgender health services for military personnel and other things. meanwhile, republican senator tommy tuberville continues to hold up military promotions over the pentagon's abortion policy, which defense secretary lloyd austin warned was a national security issu...

We sat down with Katja Gist, DO, for further insight into the use of continuous renal replacement therapy in children and young adults, spotlighting the importance of timing to therapy initiation.

Each 1-day delay in continuous renal replacement therapy initiation was associated with 3% greater odds of major adverse kidney events at 90 days, including mortality, dialysis dependence, and persistent kidney dysfunction.

Circumstances. but add the extreme heat waves that we have been living through, what is it that employers, the government could be doing to help protect them? >> one thing is that we do not have federal heat protection standards. right now, osha is working to draft some federal heat protection standards. but that's going to take many years. what we would like to see is growers in the agriculture industry working with researchers, with advocacy organizations to come up with solutions to protect workers while they are working. for far too long, there's been this idea that if you work outside in ...

They are 35 times more likely to die of heat than other workers. joining us now is roxanne na chicas who has been studying the impact of heat on farm workers. she's an assistant professor. thank you for being with us. what does your research tell us about how heat is taking its toll on farm workers? our research is showing they are disproportionally suffering from heat-related illness symptoms. they are suffering from kidney dysfunction, from acute kidney injury over one work day. we have these heat-related deaths. but the long-term affect of elevated core body temperatures we still don't unde...