DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-05-05 Biden Administration Issues New Warning About Medical Credit Cards Noam N. Levey The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned Americans about the growing risks of medical credit cards and other loans for medical bills, warning in a new report that high interest rates can deepen patients’ debts and threaten their financial security. In […]
2023-05-04 Federal Rules Don’t Require Period Product Ingredients on Packaging Labels. States Are Stepping In. Erica Zurek Tens of millions of Americans use menstrual products, and while manufacturers contend they are safe, most disclose little about the chemicals they contain. Now, amid calls for more disclosure and research into the health effects of […]
2023-05-03 Millions Are Stuck in Dental Deserts, With No Access to Oral Health Care Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times Every day, Adrienne Grimmett and her colleagues at Evara Health in the Tampa Bay area see stories of inequity in their patients’ teeth, gums, and palates. Marked in painful abscesses, dangerous infections, and missing […]
2023-05-02 For California Teen, Coverage of Early Psychosis Treatment Proved a Lifesaver Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Summer Oriyavong first heard the ringing bells and tapping sounds in her head when she was in middle school. Whispering voices and shadowy visions, ones that made her feel superior and special, soon followed. It wasn’t […]
2023-05-01 A California Physician Training Program Adds Diversity, but Where Do Graduates End Up? Stephanie Stephens Marcus Cummins grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor, but the Central Valley, California, native didn’t have Black physicians to look up to. At times he doubted himself, but he credits the determination he developed as a […]
2023-04-30 Disability Rights Groups Sue to Overturn California’s Physician-Assisted Death Law Don Thompson Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t imminent to kill themselves with drugs prescribed by a doctor. California’s original law […]
2023-04-29 Depressed? Anxious? Air Pollution May Be a Factor Jim Robbins In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn’t recognize their owners, and the animals’ sleep patterns had changed. At the time, the sprawling, mountain-ringed city of more than 15 million people was known as the most polluted […]
2023-04-28 How a 2019 Florida Law Catalyzed a Hospital-Building Boom Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Lauren Sausser and Daniel Chang WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — In BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel’s 86 private rooms, patients can use voice-activated Alexa devices to dim the lights, play music, or summon a nurse. BayCare boasts some of […]
2023-04-27 As Federal Emergency Declaration Expires, the Picture of the Pandemic Grows Fuzzier Sam Whitehead Joel Wakefield isn’t just an armchair epidemiologist. His interest in tracking the spread of covid is personal. The 58-year-old lawyer who lives in Phoenix has an immunodeficiency disease that increases his risk of severe outcomes from covid-19 and […]
2023-04-26 US Officials Want to End the HIV Epidemic by 2030. Many Stakeholders Think They Won’t. Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead MIAMI — In 2018, Mike Ferraro was living on the street and sharing needles with other people who injected drugs when he found out he was HIV-positive. “I thought it was a […]