DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-10-07 Addiction Experts Fear the Fallout if California Legalizes Sports Betting Mark Kreidler Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that states could legalize betting on sports, California — with 40 million people and numerous professional teams — has been the great white whale, eluding gambling companies and casino-hosting tribal communities. At […]
2022-10-07 The CDC Scientist Who Couldn’t Get Monkeypox Treatment by Anna Maria Barry-Jester, photography by Braylen Dion, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. William L. Jeffries IV On a Monday morning in mid-July, William L. […]
2022-10-07 Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium causes gonorrhea by infecting mucous membranes. Design Cells/iStock Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Kenneth Keiler, Penn State COVID-19 has rightfully dominated infectious disease news since 2020. However, that doesn’t mean […]
2022-10-06 $80,000 and 5 ER Visits: An Ectopic Pregnancy Takes a Toll Despite NY’s Liberal Abortion Law Michelle Andrews When Sara Laub’s period was late, the New York City resident shrugged it off. She’d used an intrauterine device, or IUD, for three years and knew her odds of getting pregnant were extremely slim. […]
2022-10-05 Nursing Home Surprise: Advantage Plans May Shorten Stays to Less Time Than Medicare Covers Susan Jaffe After 11 days in a St. Paul, Minnesota, skilled nursing facility recuperating from a fall, Paula Christopherson, 97, was told by her insurer that she should return home. But instead of being relieved, Christopherson and her […]
2022-10-02 Turned Away From Urgent Care — And Toward a Big ER Bill Sam Whitehead Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes. She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Georgia. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow […]
2022-10-01 Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey Arthur Allen Dr. Steven-Huy Han, a UCLA liver specialist, has prescribed Ocaliva to a handful of patients, although he’s not sure it helps. As advertised, the drug is lowering levels of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase in […]
2022-09-30 Few Places Have More Medical Debt Than Dallas-Fort Worth, but Hospitals There Are Thriving Noam N. Levey PROSPER, Texas — Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles’ football season was big. The game in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb began with fireworks and a four-airplane flyover. A trained […]
Deep brain stimulation can be life-altering for OCD sufferers when other treatment options fall short Deep brain stimulation relies on thin electrodes implanted deep in the brain that deliver electrical currents. Olemedia/E+ via Getty Images Rachel A. Davis, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Imagine growing up tormented by fears and life-consuming rituals […]
2022-09-29 $2,700 Ambulance Bill Pulled Back From Collections Bram Sable-Smith Peggy Dula is as surprised as she is relieved. The 55-year-old resident of St. Charles, Illinois, had been fighting a $2,700 ambulance bill for nearly a year. Now, the amount she owes from her September 2021 car wreck appears to be zero. This […]