2023-04-16 The Drug Company That Prospered Without Creating Any Drugs Arthur Allen The new drug looked so promising — except for that one warning sign. At the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting in 2008, Duke University’s Dr. John Sundy proudly announced that pegloticase, a drug he’d helped develop, was astoundingly effective at […]

    2023-04-14 California Bill Would Mandate HPV Vaccine for Incoming College Students Rachel Scheier When she was a college freshman, Joslyn Chaiprasert-Paguio was told by a doctor she had a common sexually transmitted infection called the human papillomavirus but not to worry. Four years later, a few days before her wedding, she was diagnosed […]

    2023-04-13 Doctors’ Lesson for Drug Industry: Abortion Wars Are Dangerous to Ignore Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Texas District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision April 7 to rescind the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone dealt a blow to more than just people seeking a medication abortion. It appears to be the first […]

    2023-04-12 Doctor Shortages Distress Rural America, Where Few Residency Programs Exist Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The doctor in training remembered telling one of her […]

    2023-04-11 For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel Charlotte Huff Eighteen months after April Adcox learned she had skin cancer, she finally returned to Charleston’s Medical University of South Carolina last May to seek treatment. By then, the reddish area along her hairline had grown from […]

    2023-04-10 Montana May Require Insurers to Cover Monitoring Devices for Diabetes Keely Larson In between sets of tumbling warmups, Adrienne Prashar crossed the gym to where she had stashed her diabetes supplies and tested her blood sugar. Prashar, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes the day before her 13th birthday, said tumbling […]

    2023-04-09 Gov. Newsom Wanted California to Cut Ties With Walgreens. Then Federal Law Got in the Way. Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom declared last month that California was “done” doing business with Walgreens after the pharmacy chain said it would not distribute an abortion pill in 21 states where Republicans […]

    2023-04-08 High Inflation and Housing Costs Force Many Americans to Delay Needed Care Stephanie Colombini, WUSF At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community. Local Tracy […]

    2023-04-07 No-Cost Preventive Services Are Now in Jeopardy. Here’s What You Need to Know. Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News When a federal judge in Texas declared unconstitutional a popular part of the Affordable Care Act that ensures no-cost preventive care for certain services, such as screening exams for conditions such as diabetes, hepatitis, […]