How Family History Can Impact Kidney Health (StatePoint) This article is sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. While lifestyle factors such as physical activity and dietary habits play an integral role in a person’s overall health, family history is a critical component as well. Genetic disorders, or inherited conditions, are caused by an abnormality […]
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If Congress Adds Dental Coverage to Medicare, Should All Seniors Get It?
2021-11-01 If Congress Adds Dental Coverage to Medicare, Should All Seniors Get It? Bram Sable-Smith William Stork needs a tooth out. That’s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver’s dentist told him during a recent checkup. That kind of extraction requires an oral surgeon, which could cost him around $1,000 because, like most seniors, Stork […]
ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid
2021-10-21 ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid Kate Wells, Michigan Radio Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen. Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, […]
Evolving Approaches to Elective Surgery After COVID-19
Evolving Approaches to Elective Surgery After COVID-19 (NewsUSA) – COVID-19 has changed the way Americans approach elective surgery, sometimes in unexpected ways. For example, a 16-year-old, dedicated sousaphone player, had two flat feet that made marching painful. But a hectic high school schedule didn’t leave time for the corrective orthopedic surgery needed since birth. “Both […]
How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency
2021-10-28 How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency Rae Ellen Bichell Caitlin Wells Salerno knew that some mammals — like the golden-mantled ground squirrels she studies in the Rocky Mountains — invest an insane amount of resources in their young. That didn’t prepare her for the resources the conservation biologist would […]
Death in Dallas: One Family’s Experience in the Medicaid Gap
2021-10-25 Death in Dallas: One Family’s Experience in the Medicaid Gap Ashley Lopez, KUT For years, Millicent McKinnon of Dallas went without health insurance. She was one of roughly 1 million Texans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid in the state but too little to buy their own insurance. That is, until […]
Worn-Out Nurses Hit the Road for Better Pay, Stressing Hospital Budgets — and Morale
2021-10-22 Worn-Out Nurses Hit the Road for Better Pay, Stressing Hospital Budgets — and Morale Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio In parts of the country where covid-19 continues to fill hospitals, a rotating cast of traveling nurses helps keep intensive care units fully staffed. Hospitals have to pay handsomely to get that temporary help, […]
Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School Challenges
2021-10-20 Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School Challenges Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News LOS ANGELES — Christopher Manzo, a boy with curly brown hair and bright-blue-and-yellow glasses, has lived a third of his five years at home because of the pandemic. And he is more than ready for kindergarten. Hand in hand with his […]
A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last
A major federal response to occupational extreme heat is here at last Constructions workers in warm climates are often exposed to dangerous heat. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Lynée Turek-Hankins, University of Miami and Katharine Mach, University of Miami The summer of 2021 was devilishly hot across much of the U.S. Just five minutes […]
Dispensing Doctors: Should Physicians Sell Drugs to Patients?
2021-10-18 Dispensing Doctors: Should Physicians Sell Drugs to Patients? By Michael Schulson Sometime around 2007 or 2008, Samantha Jefferies came to her brother Trent with a request: Could he help figure out an easier way for doctors to sell prescription drugs to their patients? Typically, when doctors want their patients to take a drug, they […]