DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-09-09 Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio For the past decade, Precious McCowan’s life has revolved around organ transplants. She’s a doctoral candidate studying human behavior in Dallas who has survived two kidney transplants. And in the midst of her end-stage renal […]
2022-09-08 This National Cholesterol Education Month: It’s time to start protecting your heart health (BPT) – By JoAnne Foody, M.D., FACC, FAHA, Chief Medical Officer at Esperion This fall, we recognize National Cholesterol Education Month — a time to reflect upon the importance of heart health and highlight the impact of high cholesterol on cardiovascular […]
2022-09-02 Local Health Officials to Feds: Where’s the Rest of Our Monkeypox Vaccine? Jackie Fortiér, KPCC/LAist Los Angeles County health officials found out Tuesday that the federal government slashed the county’s requested and expected monkeypox vaccine allotment by 60%. Last week, the FDA told health care providers to split a one-dose vial of […]
Dueling Epidemics: One Man’s Story of Overcoming Pain and Addiction (BPT) – A decade ago, life was good for Carion Young. He was playing competitive tennis, fixing cars and enjoying life. Carion was also living with Type 1 diabetes, and all this activity began taking a toll on his body. His glucose levels weren’t […]
2022-08-31 Hospitals Cut Jobs and Services as Rising Costs Strain Budgets Katheryn Houghton Bozeman Health had a problem, one that officials at the health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana said had been building for months. It had made it through the covid-19 pandemic’s most difficult trials but lost employees and […]
2022-08-31 Diet can influence mood, behavior and more – a neuroscientist explains What we eat matters, and having just the right amount of essential nutrients is key to our overall health. Niusha Shodja and Saina Heshmati, Storylab, CC BY-NC-ND Monica Dus, University of Michigan During the long seafaring voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries, […]
2022-08-30 Unraveling the Interplay of Omicron, Reinfections, and Long Covid Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News The latest covid-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to fall. Like past covid waves, this one will leave a lingering imprint in the form of […]
2022-08-29 Wastewater Surveillance Has Become a Critical Covid Tracking Tool, but Funding Is Inconsistent Lauren Sausser To look at recent data posted on Clemson University’s covid-19 dashboard, one might assume that viral activity is low on the Upstate South Carolina college campus. The dashboard, which relies on positive covid tests reported by local […]
2022-08-28 A Needle Exchange Project Modeled on Urban Efforts Aims to Save Lives in Rural Nevada Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez ELKO, Nev. — Richard Cusolito believes he’s saving lives by distributing clean syringes and needles to people who use drugs in this rural area of northeastern Nevada — but he knows some residents disagree. […]
2022-08-27 Rural Americans Have Difficulty Accessing a Promising Cancer Treatment Debby Waldman Suzanne BeHanna initially turned down an experimental but potentially lifesaving cancer treatment. Three years ago, the newlywed, then 62, was sick with stage 4 lymphoma, sick from two failed rounds of chemotherapy, and sick of living in a trailer park near […]