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2021-10-29 Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision Victoria Knight and Rachana Pradhan and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking social spending bill. But for the pharmaceutical industry there is one agenda: […]
White Coat Waste Takes Aim at Animal Research — From the Right A conservative political consultant wants to end government funding for research involving animal subjects. Scientists call that a dangerous game. February 28, 2018 by Michael Schulson If there’s any activist who can thrive in Donald Trump’s Washington, it’s Anthony Bellotti, a conservative political consultant […]
2021-10-27 Understaffed State Psychiatric Facilities Leave Mental Health Patients in Limbo By Andy Miller Many patients dealing with mental health crises are having to wait several days in an ER until a bed becomes available at one of Georgia’s five state psychiatric hospitals, as public facilities nationwide feel the pinch of the pandemic. “We’re […]
2021-10-26 ‘Down to My Last Diaper’: The Anxiety of Parenting in Poverty Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News For parents living in poverty, “diaper math” is a familiar and distressingly pressing daily calculation. Babies in the U.S. go through six to 10 disposable diapers a day, at an average cost of $70 to $80 a […]
2021-11-24 ‘They Treat Me Like I’m Old and Stupid’: Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias Judith Graham Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was the time several years ago when she told an emergency […]
2021-10-23 Montana Tribes Want to Stop Jailing People for Suicide Attempts but Lack a Safer Alternative Sara Reardon POPLAR, Mont. — When Maria Vega was a senior in high school in 2015, she found the body of one of her closest friends, who had died by suicide. A few days later, devastated by the loss, […]
‘Are You Going to Keep Me Safe?’ Hospital Workers Sound Alarm on Rising Violence Bram Sable-Smith and Andy Miller October 11, 2021 The San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about being barred from seeing a patient due to covid-19 restrictions, threatened to bring […]
2021-10-11 NY Reaches Agreement With DOJ Over Vaccine Access for Blind People Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht Five New York state and local government agencies agreed to fix covid-19 vaccine websites to make them accessible for blind users following a Department of Justice investigation spurred by a KHN story. New York State’s Department of […]
2021-10-06 Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers Mark Kreidler Phebe Cox grew up in what might seem an unlikely mental health danger zone for a kid: tony Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. But behind its façade of family success and wealth, she said, is an […]
Combination of healthy lifestyle traits may substantially reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk Alzheimer’s DiseaseBehavioral & Social ResearchDementiasNutritionPhysical Activity Joe Balintfy, 301-496-1752, [email protected] Data from two NIH studies show 60% lower risk among those with highest number of healthy behaviors Combining more healthy lifestyle behaviors was associated with substantially lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease in a study […]