DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-08-15 Veterans Push for Medical Marijuana in Conservative South Aneri Pattani RALEIGH, N.C. — Each time Chayse Roth drives home to North Carolina, he notices the highway welcome signs that declare: “Nation’s Most Military Friendly State.” “That’s a powerful thing to claim,” said Roth, a former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who served multiple deployments […]
2021-08-12 Why Doesn’t Medicare Cover Services So Many Seniors Need? Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Sorry, Joe Namath. Despite what you keep saying in those TV ads, under Medicare, seniors are not “entitled to eliminate copays and get dental care, dentures, eyeglasses, prescription drug coverage, in-home aides, unlimited transportation and home-delivered meals, all at […]
2021-08-10 Injuries Mount as Sales Reps for Device Makers Cozy Up to Surgeons, Even in Operating Rooms Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News Cristina Martinez’s spinal operation in Houston was expected to be routine. But after destabilizing her spine, the surgeon discovered the implant he was ready to put in her back was larger than […]
2021-08-07 Hard Lessons From a City That Tried to Privatize Public Health Anna Maria Barry-Jester If you were growing up in Detroit in the 1970s or ’80s, chances are you knew the city’s Herman Kiefer public health complex by both sight and reputation. Opened at the turn of the century and later enhanced by renowned […]
2021-08-06 Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just a quick walk through the parking lot of Choices-Memphis Center for Reproductive Health in this legendary music mecca speaks volumes about access to abortion in the American South. Parked alongside the polished SUVs […]
2021-08-04 A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Patients Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon doesn’t exist anymore as a hospital. But it still sued Hope Cantwell. A knock came on the door of Cantwell’s Nashville, Tennessee, apartment early this year. She said she hadn’t been vaccinated against […]
12,000 Square Miles Without Obstetrics? It’s a Possibility in West Texas Charlotte Huff The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians last month that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit needed to temporarily close […]
Diabetes Drug’s New Weight Loss Formula Fuels Cost-Benefit Debate Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News July 30, 2021 The long list of side effects that follow ads for the newer expensive drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes sometimes include an unusual warning: They might cause weight loss. That side effect is one that many people — […]
Olympic Dream Dashed After Bike Crash and Nightmare Medical Bill Over $200K Samantha Young July 29, 2021 It was a race in Pennsylvania that could have sent cyclist Phil Gaimon to the Tokyo Olympics; instead, a serious crash landed the Californian in two hospitals on the East Coast. Gaimon knows accidents are, unfortunately, part of […]
Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News July 28, 2021 Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has fewer genetic changes than earlier versions of the coronavirus. “When people saw that the […]