2023-03-07 Struggling to Survive, the First Rural Hospitals Line Up for New Federal Lifeline Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Just off the historic U.S. Route 66 in eastern New Mexico, a 10-bed hospital has for decades provided emergency care for a steady flow of people injured in car crashes and ranching accidents. […]

    March is Endometriosis Awareness Month By Editorial Team AI March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, a time when people around the world come together to raise awareness about this painful and often misunderstood condition. Endometriosis affects an estimated 10% of women worldwide and is characterized by the growth of tissue similar to the lining […]

    2023-03-06 Information Blackout Shrouds New Reports of Deaths, Injuries, and Abuse at Montana State Hospital Aaron Bolton BUTTE, Mont. — Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car and had been committed to the Montana State Hospital, the state-run psychiatric hospital for […]

    2023-03-05 Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom Daniel Chang MIAMI — In hindsight, Nikki Ruston said, she should have recognized the red flags. The office in Miami where she scheduled what’s known as a Brazilian butt lift had closed and transferred her records to a different […]

    2023-03-04 Schools Struggle With Lead in Water While Awaiting Federal Relief Katheryn Houghton PHILIPSBURG, Mont. — On a recent day in this 19th-century mining town turned tourist hot spot, students made their way into the Granite High School lobby and past a new filtered water bottle fill station. Water samples taken from the […]

    2023-03-03 After People on Medicaid Die, Some States Aggressively Seek Repayment From Their Estates Tony Leys PERRY, Iowa — Fran Ruhl’s family received a startling letter from the Iowa Department of Human Services four weeks after she died in January 2022. “Dear FAMILY OF FRANCES RUHL,” the letter began. “We have been informed […]

    2023-03-02 This Dental Device Was Sold to Fix Patients’ Jaws. Lawsuits Claim It Wrecked Their Teeth. Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News Boja Kragulj, an accomplished clarinetist who once performed with orchestras in New York, Philadelphia, and Jacksonville, Florida, has already lost four teeth. And she expects to lose at least a […]

    2023-03-01 Surprise-Billing Law Loophole: When ‘Out of Network’ Doesn’t Quite Mean Out of Network Harris Meyer It was the first day of her family’s vacation in the San Juan Islands last June when Danielle Laskey, who was 26 weeks pregnant, thought she was leaking amniotic fluid. A registered nurse, Laskey called her OB-GYN […]

    2023-02-28 Dementia Care Programs Help, If Caregivers Can Find Them Judith Graham There’s no cure, yet, for Alzheimer’s disease. But dozens of programs developed in the past 20 years can improve the lives of both people living with dementia and their caregivers. Unlike support groups, these programs teach caregivers concrete skills such as […]

2023-02-28 A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline by Ryan Gabrielson and J. David McSwane, graphics by Kolin Pope ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one […]