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U.S. Approves Medicaid Work Rule for Arkansas

On Monday, the nation’s top Medicaid official traveled to Little Rock to announce federal approval of a measure long sought by Governor Hutchinson: a work requirement for beneficiaries of Arkansas Works, the program providing health insurance to 285,000 low-income Arkansans under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for […]

Medicaid Work Rule

Heavy Drinkers at Greatest Risk for Dementia

Hot on the heels of headlines linking alcohol consumption with longer life comes new research that casts a much more sobering light on drinking. According to an analysis of more than 1 million people—the largest study of its kind to date—scientists say that heavy alcohol use is the biggest modifiable risk factor for dementia, especially early-onset forms […]

Inebriation perception

Trump Doesn’t Care

Republicans in Washington are so far proving they can’t be taken seriously to improve the nation’s health or health care system. After first submitting a budget that aims to force austerity on Medicaid and Medicare recipients to pay for last year’s tax cuts that are going largely to corporations and the wealthy, the Trump administration has now followed […]

Nurse Awarded $3.8M for Racial Harassment

HONOLULU — A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox. A jury awarded Ellen Harris, a former Queen’s Medical Center nurse, $630,000 in general damages and $3.2 million in punitive damages after finding […]

California Poll: Without Penalty, 1 in 5 Would Skip Insurance

Without the threat of a tax penalty, one in five Californians would not have signed up for health insurance this year, Harvard University researchers discovered as a part of a survey released Thursday. One in five equates to roughly 378,000 state residents, said Dr. John Hsu, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard […]

Health Insurance

Precision Maps Reveal Disparities Across Africa

A new scientific study finds that while nearly all nations in Africa have at least one region where children’s health is improving, not a single country is expected to end childhood malnutrition by 2030, an objective of the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The study, covering 2000 to 2015, and another on years […]

HHS Creates Religious Freedom Office

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced the creation of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in their Office for Civil Rights. The division aims to address concerns over sensitive subjects such as birth control, abortions, and treatment of the LGBTQ community. In addition to providing a center for complaints regarding […]

HHS Freedom Office

Why Does Vaccine-Autism Myth Persist?

Anti-vaccination headlines—like “HPV vaccine leaves another 17-year-old-girl paralyzed”—populate the Internet. That, and “Mom researches vaccines, discovers vaccination horrors, goes vaccine free,” are just a few examples of the fake science news stories shared this month on Facebook. If you are a parent on social media, you’ve likely seen many posts just like these. Maybe you’ve even […]

Trump Backs Lawsuit Over Opioids

President Donald Trump suggested that a federal lawsuit against opioid manufacturers may be on the horizon at a meeting on the opioid crisis on Thursday. The president said he’s spoken with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about bringing a lawsuit against companies, adding that the administration will be rolling out more policies over the next three weeks. […]

President Donald Trump

Study: Precision Medicine Works for Rich, White Men

A new report from the Data & Society Research Institute in New York suggests precision medicine — the practice of tailoring medical treatment and products to specific patients, factoring in everything from genetics to lifestyle — could do more harm than good, with high risks that it will discriminate against multiple groups of people. Read More

Precision Medicine

It’s My Body

It’s hard to explain what it feels like to know that, just a few generations ago, my great-great-grandmother was a slave woman whose body was controlled by a slave master. The knowledge becomes harder to stomach as I reflect on the past and realize what little has changed. When I gave birth to my child, […]

African American Pregnancy

Idaho Leaves Door Open to Action on Obamacare

Idaho is not ruling out the possibility of taking legal action if the Trump administration blocks its plan to allow the sale of healthcare coverage that does not abide by Obamacare’s mandates. Dean Cameron, the state’s insurance commissioner, hopes that any issues the administration has with Idaho’s plan can instead be hashed out during ongoing […]

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