2022-06-06 Computer Glitches and Human Error Still Causing Insurance Headaches for Californians Bernard J. Wolfson Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program […]
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‘Masked’ cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues, reducing treatment side effects
‘Masked’ cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues, reducing treatment side effects Dendritic cells (green) produce cytokines like IL-12, which can train T cells (pink) to attack tumors. Victor Segura Ibarra and Rita Serda/National Cancer Institute via Flickr, CC BY-NC Aslan Mansurov, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular […]
Taco Bowls and Chicken Curry: Medi-Cal Delivers Ready Meals in Grand Health Care Experiment
2022-06-03 Taco Bowls and Chicken Curry: Medi-Cal Delivers Ready Meals in Grand Health Care Experiment Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News and Angela Hart Every Friday, Frances De Los Santos waits for a shipment of healthy, prepared meals to land on her front porch at the edge of the Mojave Desert. From […]
Abortion Opponents Take Political Risks by Dropping Exceptions for Rape, Incest, and the Mother’s Life
2022-06-02 Abortion Opponents Take Political Risks by Dropping Exceptions for Rape, Incest, and the Mother’s Life Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News If it seems as though the anti-abortion movement has gotten more extreme in recent months, that’s because it has. But it’s not the first time — positions taken by both sides […]
Her First Colonoscopy Cost Her $0. Her Second Cost $2,185. Why?
2022-06-01 Her First Colonoscopy Cost Her $0. Her Second Cost $2,185. Why? Michelle Andrews Elizabeth Melville and her husband are gradually hiking all 48 mountain peaks that top 4,000 feet in New Hampshire. “I want to do everything I can to stay healthy so that I can be skiing and hiking into my […]
Can a Monthly Injection Be the Key to Curbing Addiction? These Experts Say Yes
2022-05-31 Can a Monthly Injection Be the Key to Curbing Addiction? These Experts Say Yes Jenny Gold OAKLAND — Dr. Andrew Herring has a clear goal walking into every appointment with patients seeking medication to treat an opioid use disorder: persuade them to get an injection of extended-release buprenorphine. At his addiction clinic […]
Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize
2022-05-30 Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize Sarah Kwon In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, ran on fumes, working as many as 80 hours a week in the ICU. He was constantly petrified that […]
Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs
2022-05-29 Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs Emily Pisacreta and Emmarie Huetteman Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist. Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that is successfully managed with medications and lifelong […]
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
2022-05-28 Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors Arthur Allen and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. […]
The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations
2022-05-27 The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations Aaron Bolton BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson, and […]