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New Help for Dealing With Aggression in People With Dementia Judith Graham Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or repetitive behaviors, or refuse to let caregivers help them. Upward of 95% of patients […]
The Lure of Specialty Medicine Pulls Nurse Practitioners From Primary Care Michelle Andrews 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, at least […]
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA and Sarah Boden, WESA Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, she […]
After a Child’s Death, California Weighs Rules for Phys Ed During Extreme Weather Samantha Young LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — Yahushua Robinson was an energetic boy who jumped and danced his way through life. Then, a physical education teacher instructed the 12-year-old to run outside on a day when the temperature climbed to 107 degrees. […]
Why One New York Health System Stopped Suing Its Patients Noam N. Levey ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jolynn Mungenast spends her days looking for ways to help people pay their hospital bills. Working out of a warehouse-like building in a scruffy corner of this former industrial town, Mungenast gently walks patients through health insurance options, […]
Tribal Nations Invest Opioid Settlement Funds in Traditional Healing to Treat Addiction Aneri Pattani and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi’kmaq Nation’s health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It’s one of several sweat lodges on the tribe’s land, but this […]
Nursing Homes Wield Pandemic Immunity Laws To Duck Wrongful Death Suits Fred Schulte, KFF Health News In early 2020, with reports of covid-19 outbreaks making dire headlines, Trever Schapers worried about her father’s safety in a nursing home in Queens. She had delighted in watching her dad, John Schapers, blow out the candles on […]
San Francisco Tries Tough Love by Tying Welfare to Drug Rehab Ronnie Cohen Raymond Llano carries a plastic bag with everything he owns in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, and the flattened cardboard box he uses as a bed under his arm as he waits in line for lunch at […]
Democrats Seek To Make GOP Pay for Threats to Reproductive Rights Samantha Liss ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Democrat Lucas Kunce is trying to pin reproductive care restrictions on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), betting it will boost his chances of unseating the incumbent in November. In a recent ad campaign, Kunce accuses Hawley of jeopardizing […]
First Responders, Veterans Hail Benefits of Psychedelic Drugs as California Debates Legalization Bernard J. Wolfson Wade Trammell recalls the time he and his fellow firefighters responded to a highway crash in which a beer truck rammed into a pole, propelling the truck’s engine through the cab and into the driver’s abdomen. “The guy was […]