DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-03-27 Sen. Sanders Shows Fire, but Seeks Modest Goals, in His Debut Drug Hearing as Health Chair Arthur Allen Sen. Bernie Sanders, who rose to national prominence criticizing big business in general and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, claimed the spotlight Wednesday on what might at first seem a powerful new stage from […]
2023-03-26 Being ‘Socially Frail’ Comes With Health Risks for Older Adults Judith Graham Consider three hypothetical women in their mid-70s, all living alone in identical economic circumstances with the same array of ailments: diabetes, arthritis, and high blood pressure. Ms. Green stays home most of the time and sometimes goes a week without […]
2023-03-25 Fresh Produce Is an Increasingly Popular Prescription for Chronically Ill Patients Carly Graf When Mackenzie Sachs, a registered dietitian on the Blackfeet Reservation, in northwestern Montana, sees a patient experiencing high blood pressure, diabetes, or another chronic illness, her first thought isn’t necessarily to recommend medication. Rather, if the patient doesn’t have […]
2023-03-24 Legal Questions, Inquiries Intensify Around Noble Health’s Rural Missouri Hospital Closures Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits. The hospitals […]
2023-03-23 A Lot of Thought, Little Action: Proposals About Mental Health Go Unheeded Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times Thousands of people struggle to access mental health services in Florida. The treatment system is disjointed and complex. Some residents bounce between providers and are prescribed different medications with clinicians unaware of what happened. Jails […]
2023-03-22 Some Roadblocks to Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Are Gone. Now What? Martha Bebinger, WBUR For two decades — as opioid overdose deaths rose steadily — the federal government limited access to buprenorphine, a medication that addiction experts consider the gold standard for treating patients with opioid use disorder. Study after study shows it […]
2023-03-21 Judge Signals He Could Rule to Halt Sales of Common Abortion Pill Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News During a four-hour hearing last week that could eliminate nationwide access to a common and widely used abortion pill, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, of the Northern District of Texas, signaled his conservative Christian beliefs early […]
2023-03-20 Temp Nurses Cost Hospitals Big During Pandemic. Lawmakers Are Now Mulling Limits. Bram Sable-Smith To crack down on price gouging, proposed legislation in Missouri calls for allowing felony charges against health care staffing agencies that substantially raise their prices during a declared emergency. A New York bill includes a cap on the […]
2023-03-20 New PFAS guidelines – a water quality scientist explains technology and investment needed to get forever chemicals out of US drinking water PFAS can be found in hundreds of water systems in the U.S. d3sign/Moment via Getty Images Joe Charbonnet, Iowa State University Harmful chemicals known as PFAS can be found in everything from […]
2023-03-19 California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings Bernard J. Wolfson Gov. Gavin Newsom may have been prescient when he acknowledged free speech concerns as he signed California’s covid misinformation bill last fall. In a message to lawmakers, the governor warned of “the chilling effect other potential laws may have” […]