DON'T EVER GIVE UP
February is American Heart Month By Editorial Team AI American Heart Month is a campaign to raise awareness about heart disease and encourage people to take steps to prevent it. Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, and is responsible for about one in four deaths. […]
2023-02-13 Public Health Agencies Turn to Locals to Extend Reach Into Immigrant Communities Markian Hawryluk When covid-19 vaccines became available, Colorado public health officials initially relied on mass vaccination events publicized through Facebook, email, and texts, and required Coloradans to book appointments online. But when that go-big strategy drove large disparities in who […]
2023-02-12 Era of ‘Free’ Covid Vaccines, Test Kits, and Treatments Is Ending. Who Will Pay the Tab Now? Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments. The White House announced this month that the national public health emergency, first declared in […]
2023-02-11 Montana Considers Allowing Physician Assistants to Practice Independently Keely Larson Megan Zawacki started working at St. Peter’s Health in Helena, Montana, in 2020 as a physician assistant trained in treating addiction. She had gone through specialized training that allowed her to prescribe Suboxone, a medication to fight opioid addiction, but she couldn’t […]
2023-02-09 Decisions by CVS and Optum Panicked Thousands of Their Sickest Patients Arthur Allen NEW YORK — The fear started when a few patients saw their nurses and dietitians posting job searches on LinkedIn. Word spread to Facebook groups, and patients started calling Coram CVS, a major U.S. supplier of the compounded IV nutrients on […]
2023-02-08 A Secret Weapon in Preventing the Next Pandemic: Fruit Bats Jim Robbins More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are primary vectors for virus transmission from […]
2023-02-08 UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. by David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker and Maya Miller ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In May 2021, a nurse […]
2023-02-07 As Pandemic-Era Medicaid Provisions Lapse, Millions Approach a Coverage Cliff Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the covid-19 pandemic expire. The upheaval, which begins in April, will put millions of low-income Americans at risk of losing […]
2023-02-06 Nursing Home Owners Drained Cash During Pandemic While Residents Deteriorated Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally. Part of a ceiling collapsed on a nurse, the air conditioning conked out regularly, and a toilet once burst […]
2023-02-05 California Author Uses Dark Humor — And a Bear — To Highlight Flawed Health System Rachel Scheier Mother-to-be Kathleen Founds made a routine doctor’s appointment to discuss the risks of antidepressants in pregnancy. After the visit, Founds, who relies on medication to quell the manic highs and despondent lows of bipolar disorder, […]