DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-11-14 Fentanyl in High School: A Texas Community Grapples With the Reach of the Deadly Opioid Colleen DeGuzman KYLE, Texas — The hallways of Lehman High School looked like any other on a recent fall day. Its 2,100 students talked and laughed as they hurried to their next classes, moving past walls covered […]
2022-11-12 Abortion Issue Helps Limit Democrats’ Losses in Midterms Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Republicans are likely to take control of one or both houses of Congress when all the votes are counted, but Democrats on Wednesday were celebrating after their party defied expectations of substantial losses in the midterm election. The backlash […]
2022-11-11 Ad Goes Too Far With Claim That Joe Biden Promotes Surgery for Trans Teens (To stay on page, right-click on links to open in a new tab) Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio “Joe Biden and the New Left even promote surgery on teens and young adults, removing breasts and genitals.” America […]
Confronting the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths in Our Communities (StatePoint) As America’s drug overdose and death epidemic continues to impact communities of every size in every corner of the country, new challenges have emerged. In 2021, more than 107,000 people died from drug-related overdoses, according to the U.S. Centers of Disease […]
2022-11-10 People With Long Covid Face Barriers to Government Disability Benefits Betsy Ladyzhets When Josephine Cabrera Taveras was infected with covid-19 in spring 2020, she didn’t anticipate that the virus would knock her out of work for two years and put her family at risk for eviction. Taveras, a mother of two in […]
2022-11-09 Pfizer’s Covid Cash Powers a ‘Marketing Machine’ on the Hunt for New Supernovas Arthur Allen For drugmaker Pfizer, a fortune amassed in the covid pandemic is now paving the path to pharma nirvana: a weight loss pill worth billions. The company has reaped nearly $100 billion from selling covid-19 vaccines and treatments […]
2022-11-09 For Many Disabled Patients, the Doctor Is Often Not In by Emma Yasinski Ben Salentine, associate director of health sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of guess,” his weight, he said, because they don’t have […]
2022-11-08 Supreme Court to Hear Nursing Home Case That Could Affect Millions Farah Yousry, Side Effects Public Media When Susie Talevski sued the agency that managed her elderly father’s care before he died, she hoped to get justice for her family. She did not expect the case would grow into a national bellwether. […]
2022-11-07 Haven’t Seen Your Doctor in a Few Years? You May Need to Find a New One Michelle Andrews When Claudia Siegel got a stomach bug earlier this year, she reached out to her primary care doctor to prescribe something to relieve her diarrhea. The Philadelphia resident was surprised when she received an […]
2022-11-06 Hospital Giant HCA Fends Off Accusations of Questionable Inpatient Admissions Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Jennifer Smithfield felt weak and still had trouble breathing in February after nearly two weeks with covid-19. It was a Sunday, and her doctor’s office was closed. So her primary care physician suggested going to an emergency […]