DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-09-20 With Its Two Doctors Planning to Retire, an Alabama Town Patches Together Health Care Options Arielle Zionts LaFAYETTE, Ala. — Charity Hodge had mixed feelings when she spotted a Facebook post announcing that her longtime primary care doctor was ready to retire after decades of serving their rural community. “I was like, […]
2023-09-17 Health Workers Warn Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers Amy Maxmen Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals. A CDC advisory committee has been updating its […]
2023-09-18 California Legislature Passes Gov. Newsom’s Proposal to Retool Mental Health Services Act Molly Castle Work The California Legislature passed a pair of bills greenlighting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign to build 10,000 new beds and housing units and increase drug addiction treatment as part of his response to the state’s homelessness and drug […]
2023-09-17 Social Security Overpays Billions to People, Many on Disability. Then It Demands the Money Back. David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home. She has cerebral palsy, an intellectual disability, and a cardiac condition that required she […]
2023-09-16 As More Patients Email Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees Harris Meyer Meg Bakewell, who has cancer and cancer-related heart disease, sometimes emails her primary care physician, oncologist, and cardiologist asking them for medical advice when she experiences urgent symptoms such as pain or shortness of breath. But she was a little […]
2023-09-15 Abortion Bans Fuel a Rise in High-Risk Patients Heading to Illinois Hospitals Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Chicago When she was around 22 weeks pregnant, the patient found out that the son she was carrying didn’t have kidneys and his lungs wouldn’t develop. If he survived the birth, he would struggle to breathe and […]
2023-09-14 Despite Successes, Addiction Treatment Programs for Families Struggle to Stay Open Christina Saint Louis MORA, Minn. — Two playgrounds border the Recovering Hope Treatment Center for addiction that sits at the end of a gravel road in eastern Minnesota’s rural Kanabec County. A meeting room inside is furnished with rocking chairs and […]
2023-09-13 ‘Dr. Google’ Meets Its Match: Dr. ChatGPT Andrew Leonard As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Riley Lyons’ biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must make an immediate assessment of its urgency. He often finds patients have already turned to […]
2023-09-12 A Father Dreamed of a Home for His Family. Medical Debt Nearly Pushed Them Onto the Streets. Noam N. Levey DENVER — Kayce Atencio used to be haunted by a thought while working at a homeless shelter in downtown Denver. “It could have been me,” said Atencio, 30, who lives in a […]
2023-09-11 Heat-Related Deaths Are Up, and Not Just Because It’s Getting Hotter Phillip Reese September 8, 2023 Heat-related illness and deaths in California and the U.S. are on the rise along with temperatures, and an increase in drug use and homelessness is a significant part of the problem, according to public health officials […]