DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-02-27 One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News AMARILLO, Texas — Federal judges in Texas have delivered time and again for abortion opponents. They upheld a state law that allows for $10,000 bounties to be placed on anyone who helps […]
2023-02-26 States Seek Crackdown on Toxic Ingredients in Cosmetics to Close Gaps in Federal Oversight Michael Scaturro Washington has joined more than a dozen other states in seeking to crack down on toxic substances in cosmetics after a state-funded study there found lead, arsenic, and formaldehyde in makeup, lotion, and hair-straightening products made […]
2023-02-25 California Says It Can No Longer Afford Aid for Covid Testing, Vaccinations for Migrants Don Thompson All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru, […]
2023-02-25 People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana – that are critical to many bodily functions A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions. Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Digital Vision via Getty Images Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina Over the past two […]
2023-02-25 Regulators Overhaul Inspections of Hospice Providers by Ava Kofman ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: The Hospice Hustle How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers In late January, amid intensifying scrutiny of […]
2023-02-24 A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she didn’t even use her insurance to pay […]
2023-02-23 In Tennessee, a Medicaid Mix-Up Might Land You on a ‘Most Wanted’ List Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Life was upended for LaShonia Ingram over the past year, and a shadow still follows her around. Search her name online, and the first result includes the words “fraud” and “most wanted.” “It was […]
2023-02-22 A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison. Fred Clasen-Kelly Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year. Doctors told Stout, now 62, the sharp pain and congestion in his chest were caused […]
2023-02-22 Small wonders: The antibodies from camels and sharks that could change medicine A handful of animals make a pared-down version of these pathogen-fighting proteins of our immune system. Scientists hope to harness them as treatments for ills from cancer to Covid, for tracking cells in the body, and more. By Christina […]
2023-02-22 Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback by Bhargavi Duvvuri Syphilis has long been difficult to eradicate — and it’s having another resurgence. In the United States alone, more than 171,000 cases of the sexually-transmitted infection were reported in 2021, up 68 percent since 2017, according to preliminary data from the Centers for […]