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2022-01-10 Medical Marijuana Users Brace for Shortages as Montana’s Recreational Market Opens Justin Franz More than a year after voters approved legalizing marijuana for recreational use in Montana, anyone older than 21 can now enter a dispensary and buy cannabis. That has medical marijuana user Joylynn Mane Wright worried. Wright lives in Prairie […]
2022-01-09 South Dakota Voters to Decide Medicaid Expansion Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News South Dakota voters will decide in November whether the state should become the 39th to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a move that would provide coverage to 42,000 low-income residents. State officials on Monday officially placed the issue on […]
2022-01-08 A New Paradigm Is Needed: Top Experts Question the Value of Advance Care Planning Judith Graham For decades, Americans have been urged to fill out documents specifying their end-of-life wishes before becoming terminally ill — living wills, do-not-resuscitate orders, and other written materials expressing treatment preferences. Now, a group of prominent experts is saying […]
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why you’re programmed to love sugar Being able to perceive sweetness can guide foragers to the most calorie-rich picks. Elva Etienne/Moment via Getty Images Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet […]
2022-01-07 The War on Cancer at 50: The Origin Story Begins With a Socialite Citizen-Lobbyist Gabrielle Emanuel, WBUR The roots of the National Cancer Act can be traced to a small home in Watertown, Wisconsin. In the early 1900s, a girl named Mary tagged along when her mother went to visit their laundress, Mrs. […]
2022-01-06 Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers Was 10 Years in the Making by Stephen Engelberg 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: A Closer Look Examining the News More than a decade ago, a young reporter named Sasha […]
The ‘runner’s high’ may result from molecules called cannabinoids – the body’s own version of THC and CBD Exercise spurs the release of the body’s natural cannabinoids, which have myriad benefits for mental health and stress relief. Luca Sage/Stone via Getty Images Hilary A. Marusak, Wayne State University Many people have experienced reductions in stress, pain […]
2021-12-30 Rural Communities Left Hurting Without a Hospital, Ambulance or Doctors Nearby Andy Miller STATENVILLE, Ga. — Georgia’s Echols County, which borders Florida, could be called a health care desert. It has no hospital, no local ambulances. A medical provider comes to treat patients at a migrant farmworker clinic but, other than a small […]
2021-12-29 Record Number of Americans Sign Up for ACA Health Insurance Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Andy Miller A record 13.6 million Americans have signed up for health coverage for 2022 on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, with nearly a month remaining to enroll in most states, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. […]
2021-12-28 An Anesthesiology Practice’s Busy Day in Court Collecting on Surprise Bills Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Owen Loney’s surprise bill resulted from an emergency appendectomy in 2019 at a Richmond, Virginia, hospital. Insurance covered most of the cost of the hospital stay, he said. He didn’t pay much attention to a bill he […]