2023-04-25 Pain, Hope, and Science Collide as Athletes Turn to Magic Mushrooms Markian Hawryluk and Kevin Van Valkenburg, ESPN If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741. […]

    2023-04-24 Lose Weight, Gain Huge Debt: NY Provider Has Sued More Than 300 Patients Who Had Bariatric Surgery Fred Schulte, KFF Health News Seven months after Lahavah Wallace’s weight loss operation, a New York bariatric surgery practice sued her, accusing her of “intentionally” failing to pay nearly $18,000 of her bill. Long Island […]

    2023-04-23 California’s Medicaid Experiment Spends Money to Save Money — And Help the Homeless Angela Hart SAN DIEGO — Sporting a bright smile and the polished Super Bowl ring he won as a star NFL player in the late 1980s, Craig McEwen doesn’t fit the archetype of someone teetering on the brink of […]

    2023-04-22 The CDC Lacks a Rural Focus. Researchers Hope a Newly Funded Office Will Help. Christina Saint Louis In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published multiple reports analyzing health disparities between rural and urban populations. That effort pleased researchers and advocates for improving rural health because the dozen or so […]

    2023-04-21 Social Media Is Fueling Enthusiasm for New Weight Loss Drugs. Are Regulators Watching? Darius Tahir and Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Suzette Zuena is her own best advertisement for weight loss. Zuena, the “founder/visionary” of LH Spa & Rejuvenation in Livingston and Madison, New Jersey, has dropped 30 pounds. Her husband has […]

    2023-04-20 As Pandemic Emergencies End, People Battling Long Covid Feel ‘Swept Under the Rug’ Jackie Fortiér, KPCC/LAist Lost careers. Broken marriages. Dismissed and disbelieved by family and friends. These are some of the emotional and financial struggles long covid patients face years after their infection. Physically, they are debilitated and in pain: unable […]

    2023-04-19 People with Down Syndrome Are Living Longer, but the Health System Still Treats Many as Kids Tony Leys MONTROSE, Mo. — It took Samantha Lesmeister’s family four months to find a medical professional who could see that she was struggling with something more than her Down syndrome. The young woman, known as […]

Psychedelics may better treat depression and anxiety symptoms than prescription antidepressants for patients with advanced cancer Psilocybin and other psychedelics could help patients process the challenges of a cancer diagnosis. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images C. Michael White, University of Connecticut In people with advanced cancer, psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, LSD and MDMA may […]

    2023-04-18 $50 Billion in Opioid Settlement Cash Is on the Way. We’re Tracking How It’s Spent. Aneri Pattani More than $50 billion in settlement funds is being delivered to thousands of state and local governments from companies accused of flooding their communities with opioid painkillers that have left millions addicted or dead. That’s […]

    2023-04-17 The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated Phillip Reese A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of malnutrition, a yearslong trend that accelerated during the covid pandemic. Deaths attributed to malnutrition more than doubled, from about 650 in 2018 to roughly 1,400 in 2022, according to preliminary […]