DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-06-28 Book Excerpt: A Summer Camp for Sleep Experiments By Lisa L. Lewis To any observers, the electrodes were the most visible sign that the Stanford Summer Sleep Camp was a bit out of the ordinary. Joe Oliveira, one of the original campers, recalls that right after check-in, four electrodes were glued to his hair, […]
2022-06-27 Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients Cope and Monitor Treatment Darius Tahir In 2011, Sean Duffy and Adrian James were sitting in San Francisco’s Dolores Park debating what to call some workers at the company they founded, Omada Health. Omada, which launched that year, provides virtual treatment for chronic […]
2022-06-27 “We’re at a Crisis Point”: NY Attorney General Hearing Spotlights Child Mental Health Care Failures by Abigail Kramer and Gabriel Poblete, THE CITY ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Crisis Point How New York Wrecked […]
2022-06-26 Seniors With Prediabetes Should Eat Better, Get Moving, but Not Fret Too Much About Diabetes Judith Graham Almost half of older adults — more than 26 million people 65 and older — have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How concerned should they be? Not very, say some […]
2022-06-25 KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The FDA Goes After Nicotine Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Click here for a transcript of the episode. The FDA this week launched a […]
2022-06-24 Long Wait for Justice: People in Jail Face Delays for Mental Health Care Before They Can Stand Trial Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine, Georgia Health News Beau Hampton’s long wait for psychiatric treatment began last year, after he was accused of attacking his foster father and charged with a misdemeanor. The 18-year-old […]
2022-06-23 Medical Bills Can Shatter Lives. North Carolina May Act to ‘De-Weaponize’ That Debt. Aneri Pattani RALEIGH, N.C. — When Erin Williams-Reavis faced a $3,500 surgery bill, the hospital offered to let her pay in $300 monthly installments. It was too much, said Williams-Reavis, 44, who lives in Greensboro, about an hour west […]
2022-06-21 A Proposal to Import Drugs from Other Countries Creates an Unusual Alliance in the Senate Victoria Knight Harmony is not often found between two of the most boisterous senators on Capitol Hill, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.). But it was there at Tuesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee […]
Costs of Aging in Place are Emotional and Financial (NewsUSA) – Many older adults would prefer to remain in their own homes as they age, but a lack of affordable options makes this plan a challenge for individuals and their families, according to results of a new survey of more than 1,700 caregivers and […]
2022-06-20 Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani Loading… Some lost their homes. Some emptied their retirement accounts. Some struggled to feed and clothe their families. Medical debt now touches more than 100 million people in America, as the U.S. health care system pushes patients into […]