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Smoke, heat and stress: A snapshot from Southern California of life in an altered climate 2021-12-15 A lone jogger runs during a heat wave in the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles on June 17, 2021. Xinhua via Getty Images Kyla Thomas, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences From record-breaking […]
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns UN News In an urgent call to action ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, the agency focused on ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030, said that if transformative measures are not taken, the world will stay […]
2021-12-14 How LA, Calling the Shots on School Vaccine Mandates, Can Lead the Way on Covid Rules Arthur Allen On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a […]
2021-12-11 A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes Andy Miller CUTHBERT, Ga. — Lacandie Gipson struggled to breathe. The 33-year-old woman with multiple health conditions was in respiratory distress and awaiting an ambulance. About 20 minutes after the emergency call, it arrived. The Cuthbert home where Gipson lived was less than […]
2021-12-11 West Virginia Sen. Manchin Takes the Teeth Out of Democrats’ Plan for Seniors’ Dental Care Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Sharon Marchio misses having teeth for eating, speaking and smiling. For the past few years, after the last of her teeth were extracted, she’s used dentures. “My dentist calls them my floating teeth […]
2021-12-10 Some Montana Nonprofit Hospitals Fall Short of Peers in Required Charitable Giving Katheryn Houghton Montana’s richest nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax exemptions each year to operate as charities, but some fall short of other medical facilities in what they give back to their communities to get those breaks. Overall, Montana’s […]
2021-12-06 New California Law Eases Aid-in-Dying Process Bernard J. Wolfson During her three-year battle with breast cancer, my wife, Leslie, graciously endured multiple rounds of horrifically toxic treatment to eke out more time with our two young children. But after 18 cancer-free months, the disease returned with a vengeance in June 2003. It fractured […]
Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid by Eli Hager, photography by Kim Raff for ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Near the start of the […]
2121-11-29 Florida Sen. Rick Scott Off Base in Claim That Rise in Medicare Premiums Is Due to Inflation Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News An increase in Medicare Part B premiums means “America’s Seniors Are Paying the Price for Biden’s Inflation Crisis” — The headline of a press release from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) […]
2021-11-28 It Takes a Team: A Doctor With Terminal Cancer Relies on a Close-Knit Group in Her Final Days Judith Graham The decisions have been gut-wrenching. Should she try another round of chemotherapy, even though she barely tolerated the last one? Should she continue eating, although it’s getting difficult? Should she take more painkillers, […]