DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-05-05 Does online opioid treatment work? The Covid-19 pandemic brought a sudden shift to virtual health care. That has increased access — and possibly outcomes, too — for patients with opioid use disorder. By Lola Butcher While Covid-19’s death toll grabbed the spotlight these past two years, another epidemic continued marching grimly onward in […]
2022-05-04 California Opens Medicaid to Older Unauthorized Immigrants Bernard J. Wolfson On May 1, California opened Medi-Cal to older immigrants residing in the state without legal permission. Unauthorized immigrants over age 49 who fall below certain income thresholds are now eligible for full coverage by Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state partnership […]
2022-05-03 Downsized City Sees Its Health Care Downsized as Hospital Awaits Demolition Giles Bruce HAMMOND, Ind. — In 1898, three nuns took a train to this city along the south shore of Lake Michigan to start a hospital. They converted an old farmhouse into a seven-bed medical center. They treated their first patient for […]
2022-05-02 At US Hospitals, a Drug Mix-Up Is Just a Few Keystrokes Away Brett Kelman More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year […]
2022-05-01 Shopping for Space, Health Systems Make Over Malls Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio The hulking Hickory Hollow Mall — a full 1.1 million square feet of retail space in southeastern Nashville — was once the largest shopping center in Tennessee. But like many malls, it’s been in a downward death spiral for […]
2022-04-30 Physicians Are Uneasy as Colorado Collects Providers’ Diversity Data Markian Hawryluk Shaunti Meyer, a certified nurse-midwife and medical director at STRIDE Community Health Center in Colorado, doesn’t usually disclose her sexual orientation to patients. But at times it feels appropriate. After telling a transgender patient that she is a lesbian, Meyer learned […]
2022-04-29 Advance Care Planning for Guns: Owners Can Help Ensure Safe Use and Transfer of Weapons Judith Graham Kerri Raissian didn’t know what to do about her father’s guns when he died of covid-19 in December at age 86 and left her executor of his estate. Her father, Max McGaughey, hadn’t left a […]
2022-04-28 After Medical Bills Broke the Bank, This Family Headed to Mexico for Care Paula Andalo The Fierro family of Yuma, Arizona, had a string of bad medical luck that started in December 2020. That’s when Jesús Fierro Sr. was admitted to the hospital with a serious covid-19 infection. He spent 18 days […]
2022-04-27 Tech Titans Want the Richest Californians to Pay for Pandemic Preparedness Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gabe Bankman-Fried, a former Wall Street trader, has raised $12 million from a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by his brother, Sam Bankman-Fried. Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg in college and helped found Facebook […]
2022-04-26 ‘The Danger Is Still There’ ― As Omicron Lurks, Native Americans Are Wary of Booster Rachana Pradhan When covid-19 vaccines first became available, Native Americans acted swiftly and with determination to get their shots — as though they had everything to lose. Covid hospitalization and death rates for American Indians and […]