2023-01-25 Transgender People in Rural America Struggle to Find Doctors Willing or Able to Provide Care Helen Santoro For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives. As a transgender woman, Rainey needs the hormone estrogen, […]
Category: Health News
The Abortion Debate Ramps Up
2023-01-24 Abortion Debate Ramps Up in States as Congress Deadlocks Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first […]
Montana’s Health Worker Shortage
2023-01-23 Luring Out-of-State Professionals Is Just the First Step in Solving Montana’s Health Worker Shortage Keely Larson Jenna Eisenhart spent nearly six years as a licensed therapist in Colorado before deciding to move to a place with a greater need for her services. She researched rural states facing a shortage of behavioral health […]
Slow NFL Mental Health Support for Players
2023-01-22 NFL Has Been Slow to Embrace Mental Health Support for Players Mark Kreidler When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field in the middle of the “Monday Night Football” game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2, Carrie Hastings, half a continent away, understood what she needed to […]
Older Americans and Paxlovid
2023-01-21 What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid Judith Graham A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent nearly 90% of U.S. deaths from covid-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic. What […]
A $30 Million Gift to Build an Addiction Treatment Center. Then Staffers Had to Run It.
2023-01-20 A $30 Million Gift to Build an Addiction Treatment Center. Then Staffers Had to Run It. Bram Sable-Smith DECATUR, Ill. — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction treatment facility, how would you […]
Your Next Doctor’s Office May be Your Phone
2023-01-19 Will Your Smartphone Be the Next Doctor’s Office? Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News The same devices used to take selfies and type out tweets are being repurposed and commercialized for quick access to information needed for monitoring a patient’s health. A fingertip pressed against a phone’s camera lens can measure a heart […]
Conference for Health Care Investors
2023-01-17 The Biggest, Buzziest Conference for Health Care Investors Convenes Amid Fears the Bubble Will Burst Darius Tahir SAN FRANCISCO — Health care’s business class returned to its San Francisco sanctuary last week for JPMorgan’s annual health care confab, at the gilded Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square. After a two-year pandemic […]
Covid, RSV and the flu: A case of viral interference?
2023-01-18 Covid, RSV and the flu: A case of viral interference? The ‘tripledemic’ unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate. By Amber Dance Three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 is still going […]
Bleeding and in Pain, a Pregnant Woman in Louisiana Couldn’t Get Answers
2023-01-17 Bleeding and in Pain, a Pregnant Woman in Louisiana Couldn’t Get Answers Rosemary Westwood, WWNO BATON ROUGE, La. — When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter and thought […]