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Section: Health
Disparities
Legionnaires’ Disease Breaks Out in Manhattan
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has sickened 11 people in Upper Manhattan, 10 of whom have been hospitalized, according to city health officials. Eight people remained in the hospital on Thursday. “This disease is very treatable with antibiotics,” Dr. Mary Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, said in a statement. “I encourage anyone with symptoms of […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Doctors: Sexual Harassment by Patients Happens on the Job
Sexual harassment can come from many sources, including patients. For this report, we asked physicians about how patients have harassed them or been guilty of misconduct, and how they dealt with it. Medscape’s Sexual Harassment of Physicians: Report 2018, published previously, reveals the current state of physician harassment by other clinicians, medical personnel, and workplace/hospital […]
July 16, 2018
Policies
HHS Announces Cuts to Navigator Funds
The Trump administration’s decision Tuesday to slash funding to nonprofit groups that help Americans buy individual health insurance coverage sparked outrage from advocates of the Affordable Care Act. Using words like “immoral” and “cold-hearted,” they saw it as the Republicans’ latest act of sabotage against the sweeping health law. But as the ACA’s sixth open-enrollment […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Talc Cancer Verdict of $4.6 Billion Sends ‘Very Powerful Message’
A St. Louis jury Thursday awarded $550 million in actual damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over claims its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer in women who used the company’s products for years. This trial, which began June 4 in St. Louis Circuit Court, had 22 plaintiffs […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Saving Black Babies by Saving the Neighborhood
Black babies are two times more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies. This is a gap that has persisted in our country for decades. Around the country, people are trying in big ways and small to close it. The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies […]
July 16, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Kavanaugh & Health Care
President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy have left many to wonder: What will replacing an often swing vote with a more conservative one mean for health care? There are many pending cases in lower courts that, if they make it a […]
July 11, 2018
Disparities
Neighborhood May Determine Breast Cancer Outcomes
In 2008, South Shore resident Cheryl King found a lump in her right breast. When she told a health professional at a South Side facility, he dismissed it, saying many African-Americans have lumps in their breasts. In the three months it took to get appointments and tests with other professionals to verify it was cancer, […]
July 11, 2018
Disparities
Teen with Rare Kidney Disease Waits for Donor
A Duluth teen with a rare kidney disease is in need of a life-saving transplant donor. At 16-years-old, Ramonie Smith’s schedule revolves around her 11 different medications. “I take them every day, three times a day,” she said. And her 15 hours of kidney dialysis. “Dialysis is in one word, uncomfortable. But I’ve been on […]
July 11, 2018
Policies
Trump Choice for Family Planning Offers Odd Views
The Trump administration’s pick to run the federal family planning program known as Title X compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, according to a memo shared exclusively with Tonic by Washington Senator Patty Murray. The memo outlines the ways in which Diane Foley, a political appointee with extreme and medically inaccurate views on women’s health, could reshape the nation’s […]
July 11, 2018
Policies
Insurers Struggle with Freeze on A.C.A. Payments
Chad Terhune, a senior correspondent at California Healthline and Kaiser Health News, discussed the latest move by the Trump administration and the potential impact in California with A Martinez, host of the “Take Two” show on Southern California Public Radio. Health insurers and Covered California officials are facing another curveball from the Trump administration on the Affordable […]
July 11, 2018
Policies
Health and Safety in the Megacity: The Challenges
The rise of cities around the globe has ushered in great challenges and great opportunities for citizens and businesses. As the share of city dwellers increases in almost every region of the world, questions about health and safety in these dense environments becomes paramount. By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be urban. […]
July 11, 2018
Policies
Trump Blasts Pfizer for Price Hikes
President Donald Trump is trying to shame the largest U.S. drugmaker for hiking prices after he earlier said industry players were planning “massive” price reductions. He said Pfizer and others “should be ashamed that they have raised drug prices for no reason” while suggesting some unspecified retaliation. A Pfizer spokesperson said the company markets more than 400 […]
July 11, 2018
Disparities
Boys Rescued in Thailand Being Treated at Hospital
The first video has emerged showing some of the 12 boys receiving treatment in a hospital after surviving more than two weeks inside a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand. The footage, released by Thai officials Wednesday, shows eight of the boys sitting up in their hospital beds, clad in hospital gowns and face masks. […]
July 11, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
An Alzheimer’s Patient’s Advice
About a year ago, the Register published an essay I wrote about having Alzheimer’s or as I call it, ALZ. One thing to remember is Alzheimer’s has become a generic term covering many forms of dementia. I have seen three neurologists, at Mayo Clinic and in Des Moines, and have come away somewhat confused as different neurologists […]
July 9, 2018
Disparities
Trump Reversal on Race in Admissions Raises Concerns about Diversity Among Physicians
The Association of American Medical Colleges is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s recent rescission of guidance of consideration of race in university admissions might threaten efforts to improve diversity at medical schools. Earlier this week, the administration announced it would no longer support guidance created under the Obama administration encouraging schools to take a student’s […]
July 9, 2018
Disparities
Deaths from Bacterial Disease Spiked after Maria
A Puerto Rico mortality database — which CNN and CPI sued the island’s Demographic Registry to obtain — lists 26 deaths in the six months after Hurricane Maria that were labeled by clinicians as “caused” by leptospirosis, a bacterial illness known to spread through water and soil, especially in the aftermath of storms. That’s more than twice […]
July 9, 2018
Disparities
Tribe Sues Drug Firms Over Opioid Crisis
SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY, Wash. — The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has joined the ranks of governmental organizations filing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis. The Skagit Valley Herald reports the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle names Purdue Pharma, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & […]
July 9, 2018
Policies
Rubio Prepares Conservative Answer to Paid Family Leave
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is introducing legislation next week that is likely to allow parents to draw from their Social Security benefits early in what he is calling a “conservative solution” for paid family leave. Full details of the bill haven’t been disclosed yet, but an aide to Rubio confirmed it would be similar to an idea […]
July 9, 2018
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