DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-10-21 Senators Demand Answers From Social Security on Clawbacks Tied to Covid Relief David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group Three U.S. senators on a panel that oversees Social Security have called on the Social Security Administration to address a news report saying that, in violation of agency policy, people’s benefits were […]
2023-10-20 Biden Pick to Lead NIH Finally Has Her Day, but Still Gets Caught Up in Drug Price Debate Colleen DeGuzman A Senate committee finally held a hearing Wednesday on President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health. But the panel’s chair, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was focused on drug prices — […]
2023-10-19 A Third of Schools Don’t Have a Nurse. Here’s Why That’s a Problem. Colleen DeGuzman Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the first week of school, the parade started […]
2023-10-18 For People With Sickle Cell Disease, ERs Can Mean Life-Threatening Waits Sara Hutchinson Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room. “I’ve been conditioned to act and behave in a very specific way,” said Avant. “I try to do my hair. I make sure I shower, have nice […]
2023-10-17 California Bans Controversial ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed as a “watershed moment” that could make it harder for police to justify […]
2023-10-16 PrEP, a Key HIV Prevention Tool, Isn’t Reaching Black Women Sam Whitehead Alexis Perkins thought her OB-GYN’s office in Atlanta would be just the place to get a prescription for the type of drug that reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV. But during a recent visit, the medical assistant who greeted […]
2023-10-15 Rare ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacterium Spreads North as Oceans Warm Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin climbing onto her friend’s pontoon for a day of boating in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 13. Even though her friend immediately dressed the […]
2023-10-14 The New Vaccines and You: Americans Better Armed Than Ever Against the Winter Blechs Amy Maxmen Last year’s “triple-demic” marked the beginning of what may be a new normal: a confluence of respiratory infections — RSV, influenza, and covid-19 — will surge as the weather cools each year. Like blizzards, the specific timing […]
2023-10-13 Narcan, Now Available Without a Prescription, Can Still Be Hard to Get Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Nicole Leonard, WHYY Last month, drugstores and pharmacies nationwide began stocking and selling the country’s first over-the-counter version of naloxone, a medication that can stop a potentially fatal overdose from opioids. It’s sold as a nasal […]
2023-10-12 Feds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment Stats Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been […]