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2023-02-21 Senators Say Health Worker Shortages Ripe for Bipartisan Compromise Michael McAuliff Senators are eying the growing shortage of health care workers in the United States as one of the few problems where there is room for bipartisan solutions, even in a deeply divided Congress gearing up for a presidential election cycle. The shortage that’s […]
2023-02-20 California Requires Hospitals to Turn to a Patient’s Next of Kin, Closing a Longtime Loophole Mark Kreidler About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an unconscious patient — even though […]
2023-02-19 Mark Cuban Has Been Taking On the Drug Industry. But Which One? Darius Tahir When billionaire Mark Cuban announced his attack on the pharmaceutical industry and its high-priced drugs in January 2021, it was met with cheers. His new company — the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., known as Cost Plus […]
2023-02-18 Amid Dire Suicide Rates in Montana, Governor Expands Student Mental Health Screening Keely Larson Bella Nyman has struggled with her mental health since age 7, when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and anxiety. Nyman said she was afraid to tell her parents she had thoughts of suicide. Looking back, a mental […]
2023-02-17 Armed With Hashtags, These Activists Made Insulin Prices a Presidential Talking Point Bram Sable-Smith Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered. Soon, though, Crabtree found a more […]
2023-02-16 Doctors Are Disappearing From Emergency Rooms as Hospitals Look to Cut Costs Brett Kelman and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to a Tennova Healthcare hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee, in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about miscarriage, but this seemed like one. […]
2023-02-15 Your Money or Your Life: Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical Debt Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye cancer — weekly drug infusions that could cost nearly $50,000 each — Paul Davis learned Medicare had abruptly stopped paying the bills. […]
2023-02-15 It Takes a Village: Foster Program Is a New Model of Care for Indigenous Children Arielle Zionts LA PLANT, S.D. — Past a gravel road lined with old white wooden buildings is a new, 8-acre village dotted with colorful houses, tepees, and a sweat lodge. The Simply Smiles Children’s Village, in this […]
2023-02-15 Birth Control Access May Get Easier. Here’s Why It’s Not Enough. by Lucy Tu & Jocelyn Viterna Just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Paris-based company HRA Pharma applied for Food and Drug Administration approval of the country’s first over-the-counter birth control pill. The application was a timely response to Justice […]
2023-02-14 Montana’s Tax-Exempt Hospitals Oppose Increased Oversight by State Officials Katheryn Houghton Nonprofit hospitals are fighting Montana’s attempt to boost oversight of the ways they claim they provide benefits to their communities in exchange for millions of dollars in tax breaks. It’s the latest clash in a national struggle between policymakers and the […]