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Trump: Republican Plan Too “Cold-Hearted”

President Trump has described a health care plan draft that the Republicans have been working on as ‘cold-hearted’ and ‘mean’. The Republicans have been drafting the proposal in secret and not much is known about it at all. All that the proposal makers will reveal is that they are overhauling the existing system completely, which […]

Secrecy Over Bill Frustrates GOP Senators

Senate Republican leaders are aiming to bring a major revision to the nation’s health-care laws to the Senate floor by the end of June even as lingering disagreements, particularly over Medicaid, threaten to derail their efforts, several Republicans familiar with the effort said Thursday. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are […]

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At First Trump Opioid Summit, Advocates Plea for Medicaid Funds

WASHINGTON — Health advocates on Friday used the first meeting of President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis to criticize a bill that would slash future Medicaid spending and deregulate the health insurance market, arguing that the legislation would undermine whatever progress the panel could make. “Medicaid is the largest national payer for addiction and […]

Researchers Find Increased Pot Use by College Students

CORVALLIS, Ore. — A study by Oregon State University researchers has found college students at an undisclosed large public university in the state are using more marijuana since recreational pot became legal two years ago. The Register-Guard reports the researchers’ study was published Wednesday in a journal called Addiction. The study found increased use is […]

Eradicating Polio

As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we often view matters of public health through the lenses of our separate experiences and histories leading the world’s premier health agency. And because these matters are almost always complicated, both clinically and politically, our histories can lead us to different conclusions about what […]

Bill Would Let Pharmacists “Prescribe” Narcan

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s law to allow access to overdose-reversing medicine without a medical provider’s prescription is missing a key phrase that would actually allow the reform, according to the state’s attorney general’s office and mental health and addiction groups. The Senate, on Monday, and the House, last week, approved passage of a bill adding […]

Roxane Gay’s Memoir: Journey into Obesity

At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” Gay explains how she got that way and what it’s like to live “trapped in a cage.” It’s the story of a “carefree young girl … who felt safe in her body” until […]

Shortage of Native American Doctors Raises Concern

PHOENIX — Dena Wilson never doubted what she wanted to do with her life while growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother worked at the Indian Health Service as a social worker, and aside from a brief desire to be a bird in kindergarten, Wilson knew she wanted to […]

Researchers Closer to Early Autism Diagnosis

Research shows that the roots of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally start early—most likely in the womb. That’s one more reason, on top of a large number of epidemiological studies, why current claims about the role of vaccines in causing autism can’t be right. But how early is ASD detectable? It’s a critical question, since […]

47 Counties Won’t Have Obamacare

Forty-seven counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers next year and 1,200 could have only one, according to a new federal report. The map released Tuesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a county-by-county map of projected insurer participation in Obamacare. The report comes as the Senate is trying to work […]

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Healthcare Groups Petition High Court on Travel Ban

A second U.S. Appeals Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, and already healthcare organizations are asking the Supreme Court not to issue a stay of the injunctions against it. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday to uphold a freeze on the travel ban, saying […]

Study: Racial, Ethnic Minority People Get Less Care

America is a melting pot of diversity. Having the ability to meet people from any part of the world is one of America’s biggest assets and one that has made it into the country it is today. It is estimated that racial and ethnic minorities represent 28 percent of Americans, but according to a new […]

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