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Section: Health

Repeal Failed, Now What?

Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers. For now, people who get their insurance through Medicaid can rest easy. While some states have applied to make minor changes to their programs, the demise of the Graham-Cassidy legislation on Tuesday means […]

October 2, 2017

2 Ohio Colleges Apply for Medical Marijuana Testing

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two colleges have applied to handle testing for Ohio’s nascent medical marijuana program. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce tells The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Central State University in southwest Ohio and Hocking College in southeast Ohio both sent in applications by last Friday’s deadline. State law mandates only colleges […]

September 27, 2017

Psychotherapists’ Letter: Troubling Times

Increasingly, the weight of the current political environment burdens the hearts and minds of Americans and causes anxiety, preoccupation, deepening depression, feelings of helplessness and despair, disgust and horror. Not infrequently, it even rekindles the embers of prior trauma for women and members of marginalized groups whose sense of hard-won safety has been shaken to […]

September 27, 2017

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Teen Birth Rates Highest in Poor Areas

It’s about a 15-minute drive from McLane High to Buchanan High, but the difference in teen birth rates within the schools’ respective ZIP codes is staggering – and alarming. Buchanan High, a Clovis Unified school, is in Fresno County’s 93619 ZIP code, where less than 1 percent of teenage girls gave birth between 2011-2014, according […]

September 27, 2017

Center Offers New Model for Treating Sickle Cell

Gideon Ogungbemi says the pain caused by sickle cell disease is indescribable. “I can’t put it into words but I know it’s something terrible that I would never want any of my friends to experience,” says Ogungbemi, 28. The pain often drove Ogungbemi to the emergency room, where he says doctors gave him morphine or […]

September 27, 2017

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Study: Pollution May Cause Kidney Disease

Add kidney disease to the list of health problems associated with air pollution. A team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System found an association between tiny particulate matter and kidney disease in two different data sets. Read More

September 27, 2017

Is Healthcare a Right?

In the world unable to come to agreement on an answer. Earlier this year, I was visiting Athens, Ohio, the town in the Appalachian foothills where I grew up. The battle over whether to repeal, replace, or repair the Affordable Care Act raged then, as it continues to rage now. So I began asking people […]

September 27, 2017

1 Million People Wanted for Ground-Breaking Study

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact. Today, health care is based on averages, what worked best in short studies of a few hundred or thousand patients. The massive “All of Us” project instead will […]

September 27, 2017

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Poll: Majority Supports Single-Payer Care

A slim majority of Americans support a single-payer health-care system that is funded and administrated by the government and eliminates private insurers, according to a new poll. The latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey found 52 percent favor a single-payer system against 48 who oppose it. A strong majority of Democrats — 69 percent — back the […]

September 27, 2017

Obamacare Repeal “Dead as a Door Nail;” Senate Won’t Vote

WASHINGTON — Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not even to hold a vote on the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party’s banner campaign promise. “The bill is dead as a door nail,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., leaving a […]

September 27, 2017

Unpacking the Sanders Bill

On September 13, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—with 16 Democratic cosponsors—released the Medicare-For-All Act of 2017, intended to transition the American health care system to a single-payer system. In addition to the bill text, Senator Sanders released an executive summary, title summary, and white paper on financing options. Read More

September 25, 2017

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Summit Aims to Boost Black Infant Survival Odds

ST. PAUL — Even after 15 years, Ruth Richardson still remembers a prenatal visit to the doctor that left her outraged. It was her second pregnancy, and a white physician made a startling assumption about her. “He looked at my arm and asked me, ‘How long have you been an IV drug user?’” she recalled. […]

September 25, 2017

Tribe Moves to Dismiss Drug Patent Case

A Native American tribe holding patents for drugmaker Allergan Plc on Friday moved to dismiss a case brought by generic drug company Mylan NV challenging the patents. In a filing to the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe asked that Mylan’s case seeking to invalidate Allergan’s patents on dry-eye medicine […]

September 25, 2017

Legionnaires’ Outbreak at Senior Center Probed

The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease confirmed in residents at the SilverCreek on Main memory care and assisted living facility in Maple Grove. The first resident’s symptoms began Aug. 22, and the second resident’s symptoms began Sept. 12. MDH is working with SilverCreek to identify possible sources for the […]

September 25, 2017

University Team Reduces Disparities in Breast Cancer Care

Data-driven research has for years borne out that there are diverse health conditions between different demographics—blacks and whites, for instance. “We know that … more African-Americans die from cancer or heart disease or stroke or diabetes and infant mortality,” said Mona Fouad, MD, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Minority Health and […]

September 25, 2017

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Aaron Hernandez Had Severe Brain Disease

Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez had a severe form of the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died earlier this year, a new analysis of his brain shows. Researchers at Boston University’s CTE Center, who studied Hernandez’s brain, said on Thursday (Sept. 21), that the former New England Patriots player had “Stage 3 […]

September 25, 2017

Black Caucus Embraces Single-Payer Bills

Bills by U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) that would create a single-payer health care system in the United States are supported by most Congressional Black Caucus members. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, along with Rep. Bernie Sanders have bills in Congress that call for a single-payer health care […]

September 25, 2017

Support for Obamacare Repeal Hangs on a Thread

Sen. Susan Collins on Sunday all but closed the door to supporting last-ditch Republican health care bill, leaving her party’s drive to uproot President Barack Obama’s health care law dangling by an increasingly slender thread. Already two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona, have said they would vote against the […]

September 25, 2017

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