DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-04-14 Babies Die as Congenital Syphilis Continues a Decade-Long Surge Across the US Anna Maria Barry-Jester For a decade, the number of babies born with syphilis in the U.S. has surged, undeterred. Data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how dire the outbreak has become. In 2012, […]
2022-04-13 Never-Ending Costs: When Resolved Medical Bills Keep Popping Up Aneri Pattani Every now and then, Suzanne Rybak and her husband, Jim, receive pieces of mail addressed to their deceased son, Jameson. Typically, it’s junk mail that requires little thought, Suzanne said. But on March 5, an envelope for Jameson came from McLeod […]
2022-04-12 The Pandemic Exacerbates the ‘Paramedic Paradox’ in Rural America Katheryn Houghton Even after she’s clocked out, Sarah Lewin keeps a Ford Explorer outfitted with medical gear parked outside her house. As one of just four paramedics covering five counties across vast, sprawling eastern Montana, she knows a call that someone had a […]
2022-04-11 The End of the Covid Emergency Could Mean a Huge Loss of Health Insurance Elisabeth Rosenthal If there has been a silver lining to this terrible covid-19 pandemic, it is that the rate of Americans without health insurance dropped to a near-historic low, in response to various federal initiatives connected to the […]
2022-04-10 Doctors Trying to Prescribe Abortion Pills Across State Lines Stymied by Legislation Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News Soon after Dr. Mai Fleming finished her medical residency in the San Francisco Bay Area, she got to work on her Texas medical license. The family medicine doctor had no intention of moving there but invested […]
2022-04-09 Why Black and Hispanic Seniors Are Left With a Less Powerful Flu Vaccine Arthur Allen At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard flu vaccine, it seems to do a better […]
2022-04-08 $11M for North Carolina Work-Based Rehab Raises Concerns Aneri Pattani and Taylor Knopf, NC Health News DURHAM, N.C. — An addiction treatment facility, highly regarded by North Carolina lawmakers, sits in a residential neighborhood here and operates like a village in itself. Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, better known as TROSA, […]
2022-04-06 Patients’ Perilous Months-Long Waiting for Medicaid Coverage Is a Sign of What’s to Come Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance coverage. But in early March — five months, […]
2022-04-04 The Case of the $489,000 Air Ambulance Ride Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Sean Deines and hiwife, Rebekah, were road-tripping after he lost his job as a bartender when the pandemic hit. But while visiting his grandfather in a remote part of Wyoming, Sean started to feel very ill. Rebekah insisted he […]
2022-04-03 Colorado Doubles Down on Abortion Rights as Other States — And the High Court — Reconsider Rae Ellen Bichel With the Supreme Court expected to overturn or severely weaken its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, clinics in Colorado are preparing for an increase in the number of out-of-state residents seeking abortions, and […]