2022-07-02 Big Employers Are Offering Abortion Benefits. Will the Information Stay Safe? Darius Tahir In response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Americans’ constitutional right to abortion, large employers thought they had found a way to help workers living in states where abortions would be banned: provide benefits to support travel to other […]
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Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe to Use Dogs to Sniff Out Disease and Contaminants
2022-07-01 Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe to Use Dogs to Sniff Out Disease and Contaminants Working Dogs for Conservation trainer Michele Vasquez gets Charlie, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, ready to search for black-footed ferret scent at a training facility near Missoula, Montana. Dogs like Charlie will help sniff out chronic wasting disease in deer […]
Medicare Advantage Denying Care and Overcharging Say Government Watchdogs
2022-06-30 Government Watchdogs Attack Medicare Advantage for Denying Care and Overcharging Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Witnesses sharply criticized […]
His and Hers Cataract Surgeries But His Bill Was 20 Times Higher
2022-06-29 His-and-Hers Cataract Surgeries, But His Bill Was 20 Times as Much Angela Hart Photos by Heidi de Marco Danilo Manimtim’s vision was cloudy and blurred — and it was growing worse. The 73-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon in Fresno, California, knew it was time for cataract surgery. “It’s like car tires wearing out […]
Social Security Benefits and Food Quality
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from lacking enough quality food Social Security makes it more likely the elderly have enough food. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images Sophie Mitra, Fordham University; Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire, and Katie Jajtner, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic […]
Pollution and Cancer
The Polluter Just Got a Million-Dollar Fine. That Won’t Cure This Woman’s Rare Cancer. Rhonda Fratzke Credit:Joseph Ross, special to ProPublica by Lisa Song ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Sacrifice Zones Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial […]
Book Excerpt: A Summer Camp for Sleep Experiments
2022-06-28 Book Excerpt: A Summer Camp for Sleep Experiments By Lisa L. Lewis To any observers, the electrodes were the most visible sign that the Stanford Summer Sleep Camp was a bit out of the ordinary. Joe Oliveira, one of the original campers, recalls that right after check-in, four electrodes were glued to his hair, […]
Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients
2022-06-27 Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients Cope and Monitor Treatment Darius Tahir In 2011, Sean Duffy and Adrian James were sitting in San Francisco’s Dolores Park debating what to call some workers at the company they founded, Omada Health. Omada, which launched that year, provides virtual treatment for chronic […]
Spotlight on New York’s Child Mental Care Failures
2022-06-27 “We’re at a Crisis Point”: NY Attorney General Hearing Spotlights Child Mental Health Care Failures by Abigail Kramer and Gabriel Poblete, THE CITY ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Crisis Point How New York Wrecked […]
Seniors With Prediabetes Should Eat Better
2022-06-26 Seniors With Prediabetes Should Eat Better, Get Moving, but Not Fret Too Much About Diabetes Judith Graham Almost half of older adults — more than 26 million people 65 and older — have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How concerned should they be? Not very, say some […]