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Wayne State Finds Legionnaires’ Bacteria in 3 Buildings

WSU has found three more contaminated buildings, bringing the number to six, according to a Facebook posting: “Clarification added to include building names: Preliminary results have identified cooling towers on three campus buildings: The Towers Residential Suites, Purdy/Kresge Library and the College of Education Building, that have tested positive for legionella.” Read More

Expert: Medicare’s Demise Is Not Imminent

The trustees of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds released their annual report and the news was not good because shortfalls will come in eight years. However, it can be fixed because the main problem is uncontrolled healthcare cost increases, says CEPR’s Dean Baker. Medicare will become insolvent in 2026. That’s the headline that […]

Apple Watch Will Monitor Parkinson’s Symptoms

The Apple Watch will be able to monitor for shakes and tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease to help sufferers’ better manage the condition. The wristband will detect hand shakes and dyskinesia, the involuntary movements that often occur while taking medication to treat the disease. The “Movement Disorder” software could prove groundbreaking for patients who typically visit […]

Fact Check: Veterans’ Care Change is No Quick Fix

President Donald Trump is setting up veterans for likely disappointment as he tells them they have freedom to get quick medical care from private doctors when they’re unhappy with government-run health care. He is casting a bill that he signed into law Wednesday as an immediate cure-all to long wait times for medical treatment. But […]

Administration Filing Says It Won’t Back A.C.A.

The Trump administration said in a court filing late Thursday that it will no longer defend key parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the requirement that people have health insurance and provisions that guarantee access to health insurance regardless of any medical conditions. The decision, announced in a filing in a federal court in […]

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C.D.C.: Suicide Rates Up 30% Since 1999

Suicide rates are up by 30 percent across the nation since 1999, federal health officials reported Thursday. And only about half the people who died by suicide had a known mental health condition, even though depression had been thought to be the major cause of suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. While […]

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For Colored Folks Who Have Considered Suicide

The high-profile deaths of celebrities Avicii, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have forced important conversations about mental illness. Many of those conversations focus on how people who seemingly “have it all” could feel so isolated that ending their life seemed like the only solution.

Patient Freedom

Free markets in medicine are not “broken”; they have not been allowed to work since 1944 when wartime federal policies began disturbing market forces. Federal control of prices and service delivery further expanded following the Medicare Act of 1965. In 2010, Obamacare crushed medical insurance plans, doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers and home […]

2 States Propose Hikes for Obamacare Plans

ObamaCare insurers in New York and Washington state are proposing double-digit rate hikes for 2019, citing recent and upcoming changes to the law. In New York, 14 insurers are asking state regulators to approve an average rate hike of 24 percent, while 11 insurers in Washington state want to increase premiums by an average of 19.08 percent. New […]

Use of Tribe’s Sovereignty Called Risk to Patent System

Allergan Plc faced a skeptical appeals court Monday as the company defended its use of an American Indian tribe’s sovereign immunity to avoid challenges to its patents from generic-drug makers. Two of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington questioned whether Allergan was seeking to circumvent review by the Patent and […]

Project Taps Black Women’s Influence to Get Men Treated

Glenn E. Simmons Jr. knows firsthand the power of the woman in African American culture. “It was my mother who was adamant about certain things going a certain way,” he said. It’s often true that women are the leaders in black families, Simmons said, which is why he was on board with a colleague’s effort […]

Older Adults Shun Patient Portals

A new poll suggests that many older adults still aren’t using online systems to communicate with the doctors and other health care providers they rely on—despite the widespread availability of such systems. Only about half of people aged 50 to 80 have set up an account on a secure online access site, or “patient portal,” […]

Patient Portals

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