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2022-08-03 The Debt Crisis That Sick Americans Can’t Avoid Elisabeth Rosenthal President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to cancel student debt for the first $10,000 owed on federal college loans has raised debate about the fairness of such lending programs. While just over half of Americans surveyed in a June poll supported forgiving that […]
2022-08-02 Citing a Mental Health Crisis Among Young People, California Lawmakers Target Social Media Zinnia Finn Karla Garcia said her son’s social media addiction started in fourth grade, when he got his own computer for virtual learning and logged on to YouTube. Now, two years later, the video-sharing site has replaced both schoolwork […]
Taking certain opioids while on commonly prescribed antidepressants may increase the risk of overdose Certain SSRIs can inhibit the breakdown of opioids in the body. Glasshouse Images/The Image Bank via Getty Images Ismaeel Yunusa, University of South Carolina Taking oxycodone at the same time as certain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a commonly prescribed class […]
2022-08-01 Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care Markian Hawryluk Hospice care, once provided primarily by nonprofit agencies, has seen a remarkable shift over the past decade, with more than two-thirds of hospices nationwide now operating as for-profit entities. The ability to turn a quick profit […]
2022-07-29 Health Insurance Price Data: It’s Out There, but It’s Not for the Faint of Heart Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much. That’s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health insurers are posting their negotiated rates […]
2022-07-26 Post-‘Roe,’ People Are Seeking Permanent Sterilizations, and Some Are Being Turned Away Aaron Bolton and Ellis Juhlin HELENA, Mont. — A handful of people recently gathered in the shade of a large pine tree for a going-away party of sorts. Their friend, Dani Marietti, was going to have her fallopian tubes removed, […]
2022-07-23 Critics Worry Government Surveillance of HIV May Hurt More Than It Helps Sam Whitehead Robert Suttle has seen firsthand the legal risks of having HIV. In 2008, Suttle said, a former partner accused him of not disclosing he was HIV-positive. He was charged under Louisiana law with “intentional exposure to AIDS virus.” […]
2022-07-22 Fighting Monkeypox, Sexual Health Clinics Are Underfunded and Ill-Equipped Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Lauren Weber Clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases — already struggling to contain an explosive increase in infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea — now find themselves on the front lines in the nation’s fight to control […]
2022-07-22 Texas Says It Cares About Mothers, but Its Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Lags Behind Most Other States by Lomi Kriel ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. While celebrating last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right […]
2002-07-21 Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How Best to Ride Out Covid’s Next Wave Sam Whitehead and Arthur Allen Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her […]