DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-12-08 Grassroots College Networks Distribute Emergency Contraceptives on Campus Michelle Andrews Limya Harvey and Cydney Mumford set up a folding table a few times a month on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus to give away kits containing emergency contraceptives, condoms, and lube, or menstrual products like tampons and pads. They typically bring […]
2023-12-07 Many People of Color Worry Good Health Care Is Tied to Their Appearance Colleen DeGuzman Many people from racial and ethnic minority groups brace themselves for insults and judgments before medical appointments, according to a new survey of patients that reaffirms the prevalence of racial discrimination in the U.S. health system. The […]
2023-12-06 Patients Expected Profemur Artificial Hips to Last. Then They Snapped in Half. Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of […]
2023-12-04 Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors Julie Appleby, KFF Health News A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals. Across the country, health care providers are refusing to accept some Medicare Advantage plans […]
2023-12-03 ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don’t Warn Residents Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Bill Eisenman has always fished. “Growing up, we ate whatever we caught — catfish, carp, freshwater drum,” he said. “That was the only real source of fish in our diet as a family, and we […]
2023-11-30 Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get Katheryn Houghton and Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after […]
2023-11-30 ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds Patricia Kime Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with “forever chemicals” at levels higher than what federal regulators consider safe for drinking. According to the Environmental Working Group, […]
2023-11-29 Progressive and Anti-Abortion? New Group Plays Fast and Loose to Make Points Darius Tahir This summer pedestrians, drivers, and passengers in Washington, D.C., saw a new type of graffiti among the usual urban scrawls: anti-abortion advocacy designed to troll this ultra-blue city. On sidewalks, on bridge overpasses, and near Metro stations some […]
2023-11-28 Many Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive Care Andy Miller After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. For her and millions of other Americans, that’s the most […]
2023-11-27 From Hospital to Hospitality: Spin Doctors Brand Getting Sick as an Adventure. It’s Not. Elisabeth Rosenthal The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to visit California, whose coast I adore. Nor Rome, where my husband and I […]