| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.09.2024 | Fearing the worst, schools deploy armed police to thwart gun violence | Gun violence is a leading cause of death for young people in America, and the possibility of shootings has influenced costly decision-making in school systems as administrators juggle fear, duty, and dizzying statistics in efforts to keep s... |
| 11.09.2024 | Health | ACA enrollment platforms suspended over alleged foreign access to consumer data | Still, the larger issue of fraudulent ACA enrollment by rogue insurance agents seeking commissions will continue to pose a headache for regulators, with more than 200,000 complaints filed by consumers in the first six months of 2024. And it... |
| 10.09.2024 | Health | Errors in Deloitte-run Medicaid systems can cost millions and take years to fix | “People will go without care,” Edwards said, and until there’s a fix or a workaround, “you will continue to have the harm over and over again.”
Kenneth Smith, a Deloitte executive who leads its national human services division, previously t... |
| 09.09.2024 | Health | Breast cancer rises among Asian American and Pacific Islander women | The rate of new breast cancer cases among Asian American and Pacific Islander women under 50 grew by about 52% from 2000 through 2021. Rates for AAPI women 50 to 64 grew 33% and rates for AAPI women 65 and older grew by 43% during that peri... |
| 09.09.2024 | Health | Patients suffer when Indian Health Service doesn’t pay for outside care | Eligible patients aren’t guaranteed funding or timely help, however. Some of the Indian Health Service’s 170 service units exhaust their annual pool of money or reserve it for the most serious medical concerns.
Referred-care programs denied... |
| 05.09.2024 | National Politics | Disability rights activist pushes government to let him participate in society | His voice is soft, but he makes sure it’s heard.
Frey was paralyzed in an accident at age 4. He uses sip-and-puff controls to drive his wheelchair into courtrooms and through the halls of the Iowa Statehouse and the U.S. Capitol, where he d... |
| 31.08.2024 | A teen’s murder, mold in the walls: Unfulfilled promises haunt public housing | The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that $115 billion is needed to fund a backlog of public housing repairs. But, two years ago, money to fund those repairs became a casualty of negotiations between the Biden a... |
| 30.08.2024 | The Silent Struggle: Farmworkers and Opioid Settlement Decisions | In the heart of America, two crises unfold. One is the silent struggle of farmworkers facing health risks from bird flu. The other is the opioid epidemic, where settlement funds meant for healing are often decided behind closed doors. Both ... |
| 30.08.2024 | Health | Her life was at risk. She needed an abortion. Insurance refused to pay | A year later, the 1849 abortion ban still in place in Wisconsin, Ashley was pregnant again.
“Everything was perfect. I was starting to feel kicking and movement,” she said. “It was the day I turned 20 weeks, which was a Monday. I went to wo... |
| 29.08.2024 | Navigating the New Normal: COVID Vaccines and Creative Leadership in Healthcare | The landscape of healthcare marketing is shifting. Imre, a prominent brand engagement agency, has made significant strides by appointing Tracy Zuto and Malia Baker as key creative leaders. Their arrival signals a commitment to innovative, i... |
| 29.08.2024 | Health | Public voices often ignored in states’ opioid settlement money decisions | “It’s another moment where folks not connected to this community are making decisions for this community, and I think that’s inappropriate,” said Bill McKinney, a Kensington resident whose nonprofit is involved in some of the city’s settlem... |
| 29.08.2024 | With only gloves to protect them, farmworkers say they tend sick cows amid bird flu | But so far, many farms aren’t taking them up on it: According to numbers provided by the state health department in late August, fewer than 13% of the state’s dairies had requested and received such PPE.
The virus is known to infect mammals... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Crossroads of Life and Death: Medical Tourism for Assisted Dying | In the quiet corners of Vermont and Oregon, a profound shift is taking place. People are traveling across state lines, not for vacation or adventure, but for a final act of autonomy. They seek assisted dying, a choice that has become a cont... |
| 27.08.2024 | Business | For pharma, Trump vs. Harris is a showdown between two industry foes | The shift in their political standing shows up in pharmaceutical companies’ contributions to candidates. An industry that gave three or four times as much to GOP candidates as to Democrats in the 1990s and early 2000s is now hedging its bet... |
| 27.08.2024 | Health | The new COVID vaccine is out. Why you might not want to rush to get it. | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now looks to wastewater as fewer people are reporting test results to health authorities. The wastewater data shows the epidemic is worst in Western and Southern states. In New York, for exampl... |
| 23.08.2024 | Health | Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism | At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 out-of-state residents di... |
| 21.08.2024 | National Politics | Fact check: Harris did not vote to ‘cut Medicare,’ despite Trump’s claim | Trump gave no further explanation for which vote he was referring to or how he arrived at that figure. A campaign spokesperson told KFF Health News in an email that Trump was referring to a statistic from a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Toma... |
| 21.08.2024 | National Politics | New lines of attack form against the Affordable Care Act | The enhanced subsidies are set to expire in late 2025. Without them, millions of Americans would likely see their premiums go up.
But the debate will also likely draw in other issues, including Trump-era tax cuts, which also must be address... |
| 21.08.2024 | Health | The FDA calls them ‘recalls,’ yet the targeted medical devices often remain in use | “It’s very oxymoronic,” said Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco and former editor in chief of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “A recall makes it sound like it’s recalled. But that is not actually... |
| 20.08.2024 | The Battle for Trans Rights: Misinformation and Medical Necessity | The debate over gender-affirming care in the United States has become a battleground, rife with misinformation and political maneuvering. As states push for restrictive laws, medical professionals and advocates stand firm in their belief th... |
| 20.08.2024 | Health | Most Black hospitals across the South closed long ago. Their impact endures | A similar scenario has played out in hundreds of other rural communities across the United States, where hospitals have faced closure over the past 40 years. In that regard, the story of Mound Bayou’s hospital isn’t unique.
But there’s more... |
| 17.08.2024 | Health | How little Denmark got homegrown giant Novo Nordisk to lower Ozempic prices | In Denmark, with prescriptions for the drugs gobbling up 18% of regional drug budgets in 2023, officials were considering the unthinkable in a system that prides itself on free cradle-to-grave coverage: forcing patients to pay out-of-pocket... |
| 17.08.2024 | Health | Small-town patients face big hurdles as rural hospitals cut cancer care | For rural patients, getting cancer treatment close to home has always been difficult. But in recent years, chemotherapy deserts have expanded across the United States, with 382 rural hospitals halting services from 2014 to 2022, according t... |
| 16.08.2024 | The Absenteeism Epidemic: Schools Struggle to Reconnect with Students Post-Pandemic | The pandemic was a storm that swept through schools, leaving chaos in its wake. Attendance rates plummeted, and millions of students vanished from classrooms. The aftermath is still felt today. Schools are grappling with a new reality: chro... |
| 16.08.2024 | Health | Social media bans could deny teenagers mental health help | For children of color and LGBTQ+ young people — and others who may not see themselves represented broadly in society — social media can reduce isolation, according to Charmaraman’s research, which was published in the Handbook of Adolescent... |
| 14.08.2024 | Health | ‘I feel dismissed’: People experiencing colorism say health system fails them | Jonnae Thompson, an actress, a singer and a stand-up comedian, performs in the “Ladies Love Comedy” show at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, California, on April 27, 2024. She says anxiety about her skin complexion has negatively affe... |
| 13.08.2024 | Decision 2024: Harris & Trump Both Support Prescription Importation | "Remarkably, both candidates agree on one thing - allowing Americans to access affordable prescription medications through importation”
In this age of contentious politics, it is worth spotlighting when the major party presidential can... |
| 07.08.2024 | Politics | Harris’ California health care battles signal fights ahead for hospitals if she wins | For decades, the health industry has undergone consolidation despite government efforts to maintain competition. When health systems expand, adding hospitals and doctor practices to their portfolios, they often gain a large enough share of ... |
| 03.08.2024 | Health | Maternity care in rural areas is in crisis. Can more doulas help? | Clark said she’s grateful the physicians and nurses who delivered both her babies were kind and caring during her labor and delivery. But looking back, she said, she wishes she had had a doula for one-on-one support through pregnancy, child... |
| 02.08.2024 | 9/11 Heroes Deserve Better: A Call for Accountability in Healthcare | In the heart of New York City, a storm brews. The NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees is raising its voice, demanding accountability for the healthcare of 9/11 first responders. These heroes, who rushed into chaos, now find themselv... |
| 01.08.2024 | Bird flu cases are going undetected, new study suggests. It’s a problem for all of us | But testing for bird flu among farmworkers remains rare, which is why Gray’s research stands out as the first to look for signs of prior, undiagnosed infections in people who had been exposed to sick dairy cattle — and who had become ill an... |
| 01.08.2024 | The CDC’s test for bird flu works, but it has issues | The problem came to light in April as the agency prepared to distribute its test to about 100 public health labs around the country. CDC officials detected the issue through a quality control system put in place after the COVID test catastr... |
| 30.07.2024 | Rep. Gabe Vasquez Introduces Bill to Ensure Medical Debt Relief and Protections for Patients | LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO, USA, July 30, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (N.M.-02) introduced the Patient Debt Relief Act that provides relief and protections to millions of Americans burdened by medical debt. The b... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Silent Scream of Social Security: A Looming Crisis for Seniors**
** | ** In the land of the free, a silent crisis brews. Social Security, a lifeline for millions of American seniors, is losing its grip. The buying power of benefits has plummeted. In 2024, it stands at a mere 80 cents on the dollar compared to... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Bird Flu Dilemma: A Call for Action in the U.S. Dairy Industry**
** | ** The bird flu is knocking at the door of the U.S. dairy industry. It’s a silent threat, creeping in with the stealth of a shadow. Colorado is ground zero, grappling with an outbreak that has already claimed millions of chickens and raised... |
| 25.07.2024 | The TMJ Treatment Crisis: A Painful Divide in American Healthcare**
** | ** In the United States, a silent epidemic is gnawing at the jaws of millions. Temporomandibular joint disorders, or TMJ, affect an estimated 33 million Americans. This condition, which causes debilitating pain and stiffness in the jaw, oft... |
| 24.07.2024 | Health | Colorado orders dairies to test milk to curb spread of bird flu | So far, this particular version of the virus hasn’t caused severe illness in people or shown that it can spread from human to human.
In a news release Tuesday, Baldwin said the state’s previous strategy of more limited testing wasn’t workin... |
| 23.07.2024 | Health | How to find a good, well-staffed nursing home | Find your area agency on aging and ombudsman through the federal government’s Eldercare Locator website or by calling 1-800-677-1116. Identify your ombudsman through the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, an advocacy group.... |
| 22.07.2024 | Finland is offering farmworkers bird flu shots. Some experts say the US should, too | “Now is the time to offer the vaccines to farmworkers in the United States,” said Nahid Bhadelia, director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Even more urgent measures are lagging in the U.S., she added. Testin... |
| 20.07.2024 | Why millions are trying alternatives to Big Pharma's weight loss drugs | Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself "at my ideal body weight," with his cholesterol below 200 for the first time in 20 years. "I feel fantastic,"... |
| 19.07.2024 | At Trump's GOP Convention, there's little to be heard on health care | No talk of Obamacare. No abortion.
At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, where delegates officially nominated Donald Trump as the party's 2024 presidential candidate, health care issues received little attention from... |
| 19.07.2024 | Health | ‘A bottomless pit’: How out-of-pocket TMJ costs drive patients into debt | Jonna Tallant, a longtime TMJ patient, displays a pile of medical records and billing documents at her home in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has spent a small fortune on TMJ treatment over three decades, but remains in agony and is unable to ea... |
| 18.07.2024 | Emergency responders turning to drones to try to get people help faster | The drones are coming.
Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene may be a drone carrying an automated external defibrillator, or AED.
"The idea... |
| 18.07.2024 | Health | Despite past storms’ lessons, long-term care residents again left powerless | “There has been some movement, but I think it’s been way too slow,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “We keep getting tested and we keep failing the test. But I do think we are going to have... |
| 17.07.2024 | Health | If lawsuit ends federal mandates on birth control coverage, states will have the say | And that perplexity surrounding coverage may get more complicated.
An ongoing federal lawsuit aims to strike down the ACA’s preventive care coverage requirements for private insurers. If the case knocks out the mandates, state-level laws — ... |
| 17.07.2024 | In deal with DOJ and ACLU, Tennessee agrees to remove sex workers with HIV from sex offender registry | The Tennessee government has agreed to begin scrubbing its sex offender registry of dozens of people who were convicted of prostitution while having HIV, reversing a practice that federal lawsuits have challenged as draconian and discrimina... |
| 15.07.2024 | Health | From Dr. Oz to heart valves: A tiny device charted a contentious path through the FDA | The MitraClip story is, in many ways, a cautionary tale about the science, business, and regulation of medical devices.
Manufacturer-sponsored research on the device has long been questioned. In 2013, an outside adviser to the FDA compared ... |
| 11.07.2024 | How TMJ's out-of-pocket costs drive patients into "a bottomless pit" of debt | Over three decades of relentless pain, Jonna Tallant has tried about every TMJ treatment: mouthguards, six sets of braces, dental crowns and appliances, drugs, physical therapy, Botox, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care and surgery.
No... |
| 05.07.2024 | Health | Rate of young women getting sterilized doubled after Roe was overturned | After Roe was overturned in June 2022, doctors said a wave of young people like Ferst started asking for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed, or vasectomies.
New research published this spr... |
| 05.07.2024 | Insurance wouldn't pay for his vasectomy. Such birth control coverage may become more elusive. | David Engler had been pretty sure he didn't want children. Then a frustrating school day two years ago helped seal the deal for the now 43-year-old substitute teacher.
"It was wild. I had to call the office seven times to get kids pull... |
| 03.07.2024 | Planned Parenthood to blitz GOP seats, but will abortion sway California's conservative voters? | Planned Parenthood is preparing a seven-figure campaign blitz to oust GOP incumbents from California congressional seats, part of a larger national effort by the reproductive rights group to prevent a Republican majority from passing aborti... |
| 02.07.2024 | Fake therapist fooled hundreds online until she died, state records say | Hundreds of Americans may have unknowingly received therapy from an untrained impostor who masqueraded as an online therapist, possibly for as long as two years, and the deception crumbled only when she died, according to state health depar... |
| 01.07.2024 | National Politics | Battleground Wisconsin: Voters feel nickel-and-dimed by health care costs | Prelipp was serving beer at the Birnamwood Polka Days festival on a muggy June day. Pro-Trump hats peppered the crowd, and against the backdrop of cheerful polka tunes, peppy dancing, and the sweet smell of freshly cut hay, candidates for l... |
| 29.06.2024 | Health | Medicaid for millions in America hinges on Deloitte-run systems plagued by errors | Medicaid beneficiaries bear the brunt of system errors, said Steve Catanese, president of Service Employees International Union Local 668 in Pennsylvania. The union chapter represents roughly 19,000 employees — including government casework... |
| 28.06.2024 | National Politics | 1st Biden-Trump debate of 2024: What they got wrong, and right | CNN hosted the debate, which had no audience, at its Atlanta headquarters. CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderated. The debate format allowed CNN to mute candidates’ microphones when it wasn’t their turn to speak.
Our PolitiFact par... |
| 27.06.2024 | Health | Young gay Latinos see rising share of new HIV cases, leading to call for targeted funding | While African Americans continue to have the highest HIV rates in the United States overall, Latinos made up the largest share of new HIV diagnoses and infections among gay and bisexual men in 2022, per the most recent data available, compa... |
| 26.06.2024 | Testing Troubles: CDC's Bird Flu Missteps Leading to Concerns of a Repeat of COVID Testing Failures | The United States is currently grappling with a testing crisis in the midst of the bird flu outbreak, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has 1 million tests ready for deployment. However, experts are expressing deep con... |
| 26.06.2024 | CPPI Castigates Rubio Proposal That Would Deny Seniors Access to Affordable Medicines | Rubio Introduces Bill to Deny Americans Access to Affordable Medications
Senator Rubio introduced the DRUGS Act, a bill that would prevent Americans from accessing safe and affordable daily prescription medicines.
Rubio's DRUGS Act would de... |
| 26.06.2024 | Health | Experts: US hospitals prone to cyberattacks like one that hurt patient care at Ascension | “I don’t believe that anyone is fully prepared,” he said. Most emergency management plans “are designed around long-term downtimes that are into one, two, or three days.”
Ascension in a public statement May 9 said its care teams were “train... |
| 25.06.2024 | Health | ‘We’re flying blind’: CDC has 1M bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps | “Clinical labs are part of the nation’s public health system,” said Alex Greninger, assistant director of the University of Washington Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory. “Pull us into the game. We’re stuck on the bench.”
The CDC recogni... |
| 21.06.2024 | Health | Americans with HIV are living longer. Federal spending isn’t keeping up | They worry that funding constraints, an increasingly dysfunctional Congress, holes in the social safety net, untrained providers, and workforce shortages leave people aging with HIV vulnerable to poorer health, which could undermine the lar... |
| 21.06.2024 | Super Bowl parade shooting survivors await promised donations while bills pile up | Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel's medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, the bills keep coming.
There's one fo... |
| 20.06.2024 | Concierge medicine means better access to doctors for patients who pay, but disrupts care for many | "You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn't going to see you anymore."
That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in 2019. She found out about the cha... |
| 20.06.2024 | "We're flying blind": CDC has 1 million bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps | It's been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet ... |
| 19.06.2024 | National Politics | Fact check: Biden’s on target about what repealing ACA would mean for preexisting condition protections | “That would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions,” Biden said in the ad.
Less than six months from Election Day, polls show Trump narrowly leading Biden in a head-to-head race in most swing ... |
| 19.06.2024 | Business | Health worker for a nonprofit? The new ban on noncompete contracts may not help you | “Our rulemaking record includes powerful stories from health care workers who are employed by nonprofits about how noncompetes hurt patients and providers,” said FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of three Democratic commissioner... |
| 11.06.2024 | Health | An obscure drug discount program stifles use of federal lifeline by rural hospitals | Federal lawmakers have introduced a handful of legislative solutions since March. In one bill, senators from Kansas and Minnesota list a myriad of tactics, including allowing older closed facilities to reopen.
Another proposal introduced in... |
| 11.06.2024 | Biden administration to bar medical debt from credit reports | Gov. Pritzker wants to eliminate medical debt for 1M in Illinois
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Medical debt will be stricken from credit reports in a change proposed by the White House that could hel... |
| 08.06.2024 | National Politics | Wins at the ballot box for abortion rights still mean court battles for access | The delay had a purpose, according to Elisabeth Smith, state policy and advocacy director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit: It’s preferable to change laws through the legislature than through litigation because... |
| 07.06.2024 | Heat rules for California workers would also help keep schoolchildren cool | Sacramento, Calif. — Proposed rules to protect California workers from extreme heat would extend to schoolchildren, requiring school districts to find ways to keep classrooms cool.
If the standards are approved this month, employers in the ... |
| 07.06.2024 | Health | New help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia | More than 16 million unpaid caregivers — primarily family members and friends — help people with dementia live at home. (An estimated 20% of patients live in institutional settings.) The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, af... |
| 06.06.2024 | National Politics | ‘So much death’: Lawmakers weigh stricter speed limits, safer roads for pedestrians | The nation’s road system covers 4 million miles and is governed by a patchwork of federal, state, and local jurisdictions that often operate in silos, making systemic change difficult and expensive. But amid the highest number of pedestrian... |
| 06.06.2024 | Thousands of children got tested for lead with faulty devices. Here's what parents should know. | A company that makes tests for lead poisoning has agreed to resolve criminal charges that it concealed for years a malfunction that resulted in inaccurately low results.
It's the latest in a long-running saga involving Massachusetts-based M... |
| 03.06.2024 | Health | Psychoactive drugs are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in | Proponents hope the efforts could yield the first major new therapies for mental illness since the introduction of modern antidepressants in the 1980s. But not all researchers are convinced that their benefits have been validated, or proper... |
| 30.05.2024 | Health | Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas panhandle | An early indication that something had gone awry on farms in northwestern Texas came from devices hitched to collars on dairy cows. Turley describes them as “an advanced fitness tracker.” They collect a stream of data, such as a cow’s tempe... |
| 29.05.2024 | The bird flu vaccine is made with eggs. That has scientists worried. | Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they're worrying now. That's because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredie... |
| 28.05.2024 | The High Cost of Diabetes Drugs: A Barrier to Health | In the realm of healthcare, the issue of affordability and access to essential medications is a critical concern that affects the well-being of individuals, particularly those suffering from chronic conditions like diabetes. The soaring pri... |
| 28.05.2024 | Psychoactive drugs like ketamine and MDMA are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in. | Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives.
Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed herself and two others, Tipton said she endure... |
| 25.05.2024 | Health | High price of popular diabetes drugs deprives low-income people of effective treatment | Supply shortages and insurance hurdles for this powerful class of drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, have left many people who are suffering from diabetes and obesity without the medicines they need to stay healthy.
One root of the problem is th... |
| 24.05.2024 | He fell ill on a cruise. Before he boarded the rescue boat, they handed him the bill. | Vincent Wasney and his fiancée, Sarah Eberlein, had never visited the ocean. They'd never even been on a plane. But when they bought their first home in Saginaw, Michigan, in 2018, their real estate agent gifted them tickets for a Royal Car... |
| 24.05.2024 | Health | Tribal nations invest opioid settlement funds in traditional healing to treat addiction | Health care companies are paying out more than $1.5 billion to hundreds of tribes over 15 years. This windfall is similar to settlements that many of the same companies are paying to state governments, which total about $50 billion.
Edward ... |
| 21.05.2024 | Health | Why one New York health system stopped suing its patients | But at Rochester Regional, ditching these collection tactics hasn’t hurt the bottom line, said Jennifer Eslinger, chief operating officer. The system has even been able to move staff out of its collections department as it spends less to go... |
| 21.05.2024 | Health | Nursing homes wield pandemic immunity laws to duck wrongful death suits | The nursing home did not return calls seeking comment. In a court filing, the home argued that Schapers offered no evidence that the home was “grossly negligent” in treating her father.
More than four years after COVID first raged through m... |
| 21.05.2024 | 4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more | Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi... |
| 20.05.2024 | High price of Ozempic, other diabetes drugs deprive low-income people of effective treatment | For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to control their blood sugar.
Without Ozempic or a similar drug, Co... |
| 20.05.2024 | Senate's new controversial patent reform target | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sens. Chris Coons and Thom Tillis are pushing a pair of bills that they say are essential to overhauling the patent process, including for drugs and genomics, but that critics contend could wind up he... |
| 17.05.2024 | Their first baby came with medical debt. These parents won’t have another | Crivilare’s pregnancy may have been more dramatic than most. But for millions of new parents, medical debt is now as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers.
About 12% of the 100 million U.S. adults with health c... |
| 17.05.2024 | Business | FDA said it never inspected dental lab that made controversial AGGA device | “That’s a red flag for me. If I don’t see a single report to the FDA, I typically think there is something going on,” Kinard said. “When they don’t report, what you have is devices that stay on the market much longer than they should. And p... |
| 15.05.2024 | Nurse practitioners helped fill a shortage in primary care, but they're increasingly headed to specialties | For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these "NPs" often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for.
But NPs in specialty care? That's not routine, a... |
| 14.05.2024 | Could better inhalers help patients, and the planet? | Patients in the United States are prescribed roughly 144 million of what doctors call metered-dose inhalers each year, according to the most recently available data published in 2020. The cumulative amount of gas released is the equivalent ... |
| 14.05.2024 | National Politics | Biden team’s tightrope: Reining in rogue Obamacare agents without slowing enrollment | Some consumers are pursued when they respond to misleading social media marketing ads promising government subsidies, but most have no idea how they fell victim to plan-switching. Problems seem concentrated in the 32 states using the federa... |
| 13.05.2024 | FDA said it "never" inspected dental lab that made controversial AGGA device | The FDA never inspected Johns Dental Laboratories during more than a decade in which it made the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or "AGGA," a dental device that has allegedly harmed patients and is now the subject of a crimina... |
| 08.05.2024 | Business | You’ve covered your copayment; now brace yourself for the ‘facility fee’ | “Everything else at the provider’s office looks and feels the same,” said Maureen Hensley-Quinn, senior director of the coverage, cost and value team at the nonprofit National Academy for State Health Policy.
“But [patients] end up with a l... |
| 07.05.2024 | Health | Genetics studies have a diversity problem that researchers struggle to fix | Lack of diversity in genetics research has real health care implications. Since the completion more than 20 years ago of the Human Genome Project, which mapped most human genes for the first time, close to 90% of genomics studies have been ... |
| 07.05.2024 | National Politics | Fact check: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about a ban on NIH research about mass shootings | On April 21 on X, Kennedy flagged his recent interview with conservative commentator Glenn Beck, which touched on gun policy. Kennedy summarized his gun policy views in the post, writing, “The National Institutes of Health refuses to invest... |
| 01.05.2024 | Youth mental health therapy clinic opens in West Des Moines | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Community Support Advocates (CSA) has opened a new youth mental health therapy clinic and plans to double the size of its headquarters through a new West Des Moines site this summer.
Why it matters: M... |
| 29.04.2024 | Oregon Medicaid patients get air conditioning, mini fridges as climate change drives health concerns | Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire s... |
| 29.04.2024 | Health | The path to a better tuberculosis vaccine runs through Montana | By Jim Robbins | KFF Health News (TNS)
A team of Montana researchers is playing a key role in the development of a more effective vaccine against tuberculosis, an infectious disease that has killed more people than any other.
The BCG (Bacil... |
| 25.04.2024 | Health | Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors | Phil Galewitz, Holly K. Hacker | (TNS) KFF Health News
Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels ... |
| 24.04.2024 | Future Health highlights greater access to treatment for Mental Health Month | SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent poll has highlighted an alarming trend: a staggering 90% of Americans feel we are in a mental health crisis. While Mental Health Month in May seeks to build awareness across America abo... |
