DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-06-15 As Biden Fights Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Local Opposition Renuka Rayasam HOUSTON — Casey Malish had just pulled into an intersection in the 2nd Ward when a woman with tattoos and pinkish hair unexpectedly hopped into the back seat of his gray Mazda. He handles outreach for the Houston Harm Reduction […]
2022-06-14 States Fight Student Mental Health Crisis With Days Off Giles Bruce SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Linnea Sorensen falls into a funk whenever her girlfriend of four years leaves for her six-month stints with the Marines, and the high school junior has trouble concentrating on her class work. “I’m somebody who struggles with my […]
2022-06-13 Lawmaker Takes on Insurance Companies and Gets Personal About His Health Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Scott Wiener made a startling revelation at a spring legislative committee hearing: “I was in the hospital. I experienced the most intense abdominal pain that I could even imagine.” The Democratic state senator recalled crawling up […]
2022-06-12 Children’s Vision Problems Often Go Undetected, Despite Calls for Regular Screening Colleen DeGuzman Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, […]
2022-06-11 Patients Seek Mental Health Care From Their Doctor But Find Health Plans Standing in the Way Aneri Pattani When a longtime patient visited Dr. William Sawyer’s office after recovering from covid, the conversation quickly turned from the coronavirus to anxiety and ADHD. Sawyer — who has run a family medicine practice in the […]
2022-06-10 California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed? Angela Hart SACRAMENTO — California is diving into the prescription drug business, attempting to achieve what no other state has done: produce its own brand of generic insulin and sell it at below-market prices to people with diabetes like […]
2022-06-09 Misinformation Clouds America’s Most Popular Emergency Contraception Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News A brand of specialty mozzarella cheeses. A collection of natural-gas storage terminals. And America’s top-selling emergency contraception. At a moment when half of U.S. states stand poised to outlaw or sharply curtail abortion services, the last-ditch pill for women […]
Mammograms Are No Joke – They Can Save Lives By: Lynn Roodbol There are so many jokes about mammograms! Have you heard the one about the fridge door … or the bookends … or the garage floor? Thanks to all the jokes, “Mammogram” has become a household word, and it’s not that I […]
2022-06-08 They Thought They Were Buying Obamacare Plans. What They Got Wasn’t Insurance. Bram Sable-Smith Tina Passione needed health insurance in a hurry in December. The newly retired 63-year-old was relocating to suburban Atlanta with her husband to be closer to grandchildren. Their house in Pittsburgh flew off the market, and they had […]
2022-06-07 For Many Low-Income Families, Getting Formula Has Always Been a Strain Christina Szalinski Miracle Abbott became pregnant during her junior year at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She worked a low-wage job and had mounting student debt, so the then-19-year-old turned to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, […]