DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-05-24 A Striking Gap Between Deaths of Black and White Babies Plagues the South Lauren Sausser [UPDATED at 4 p.m. ET] BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies. These days, […]
2023-05-23 Remote Work: An Underestimated Benefit for Family Caregivers Joanne Kenen For Aida Beltré, working remotely during the pandemic came as a relief. She was taking care of her father, now 86, who has been in and out of hospitals and rehabs after a worsening series of strokes in recent years. Working from […]
2023-05-22 California Confronts Overdose Epidemic Among Former Prison Inmates Don Thompson Michael Vera walked into a bedroom of a residential drug treatment program in Los Angeles in March to find its occupant slumped over on his bed and struggling to breathe, a homemade straw on the floor beside him and tinfoil with what […]
Parasitic infections hit the health of low-income Black communities where states have neglected sewage systems A microscopic image of a hookworm egg that can cause intestinal problems in humans. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Theresa E. Gildner, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Intestinal infections take a heavy toll on impoverished Black communities […]
2023-05-21 Thousands Face Medicaid Whiplash in South Dakota and North Carolina Arielle Zionts Until recently, Jonathon Murray relied on Medicaid to pay for treatments for multiple health conditions, including chronic insomnia. Murray, a 20-year-old restaurant worker from the college town of Brookings, South Dakota, said that without his medication, he would stay awake […]
2023-05-20 A Covid Test Medicare Scam May Be a Trial Run for Further Fraud Susan Jaffe Medicare coverage for at-home covid-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors. Medicare advocates around the country who track fraud noticed an eleventh-hour rise in […]
2023-05-19 An AI Chatbot May Be Your Next Therapist. Will It Actually Help Your Mental Health? Elisabeth Rosenthal In the past few years, 10,000 to 20,000 apps have stampeded into the mental health space, offering to “disrupt” traditional therapy. With the frenzy around AI innovations like ChatGPT, the claim that chatbots can provide […]
2023-05-18 Lawyer Fees Draw Scrutiny as Camp Lejeune Claims Stack Up Michelle Andrews David and Adair Keller started their married life together in 1977 at Camp Lejeune, a military training base on the Atlantic Coast in Jacksonville, North Carolina. David was a Marine Corps field artillery officer then, and they lived together on […]
2023-05-17 A Rural County’s Choice: Use Opioid Funds to Pay Off Debt, or Pay Them Forward to Curb Crisis Aneri Pattani Over the past two years, rural Greene County in northeastern Tennessee has collected more than $2.7 million from regional and national settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors. But instead of helping people harmed […]
2023-05-16 As More Hospitals Create Police Forces, Critics Warn of Pitfalls Renuka Rayasam ATLANTA — When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. But that day […]