DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-07-12 Mental Health Respite Facilities Are Filling Care Gaps in Over a Dozen States Cheryl Platzman Weinstock If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing “988,” or the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741. Aimee Quicke has […]
2023-07-11 What You Need to Know About the Drug Price Fight in Those TV Ads Arthur Allen In recent months ominous ads about prescription drugs have flooded the TV airwaves. Perhaps by design, it’s not always clear who’s sponsoring the ads or why. Or, for that matter, why now? The short answer is […]
2023-07-10 California Promises Better Care for Thousands of Inmates as They Leave Prison Don Thompson California has agreed to improve health care for newly released prison inmates who are disabled, including through a series of measures that advocates say will help almost everyone trying to make the transition from incarceration. Attorneys representing inmates […]
2023-07-09 Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges Natalie Schachar On July 1, Idaho became the only state without a legal requirement or specialized committee to review maternal deaths related to pregnancy. The change comes after state lawmakers, in the midst of a national upsurge in maternal deaths, decided […]
2023-07-08 ‘It Was a Bloodbath’: Rare Dialysis Complication Can Kill, and More Could Be Done To Stop It Brett Kelman Nieltje Gedney was half-asleep in her West Virginia home, watching murder mysteries over the hum of a bedside hemodialysis machine, when she felt something warm and wet in her armpit. A needle inserted […]
Dietary Supplements Can Support Your Immune System (NewsUSA) – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues after nearly two years, people continue searching for new ways to take control of their health and support overall wellness. This interest in self-care has led to increased interest in immune-strengthening strategies, including the use of dietary supplements.No supplements can […]
2023-07-07 More States Legalize Sales of Unpasteurized Milk, Despite Public Health Warnings Tony Leys LORIMOR, Iowa — Babe the goat is trendier than she looks. Babe lives a quiet life on a hillside farm in southern Iowa, where she grazes on grass with a small herd of fellow goats. Her owner, Stacy Wistock, […]
2023-07-04 As Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Hit the Market, Anti-Smoking Groups Press for Wider Standard Don Thompson The idea seems simple enough. Preserve all the rituals of smoking: Light up a cigarette, inhale the smoke, including the nasty stuff that can kill you, and exhale. But remove most of the nicotine, the chemical that makes […]
2023-07-06 Patients Squeezed in Fight Over Who Gets to Bill for Pricey Infusion Drugs Samantha Liss Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, with the tussle over profits now spilling into statehouses across the country. The issue is that some insurers are bypassing hospital […]
2023-07-05 Misinformation Obscures Standards Guiding Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Helen Santoro [UPDATED at 3:30 p.m. ET] Almost three weeks after Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a bill making it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors, a judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the law […]