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Democrats Question Administration on ‘Jane Doe’ Case

Democratic senators admonished the Trump administration Friday for blocking a teenage girl who was in the country illegally from having an abortion and asked for a briefing on the policies around such decisions from for Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency that oversaw the teen’s care. Read More

November 13, 2017

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on Veterans’ Health Care

WASHINGTON — Veterans Day prompted President Donald Trump and his administration to take stock of what’s been done to fix health care for those in uniform. They claimed more progress than has been made. That tendency to overreach extended to trade and the economy as Trump visited Japan, South Korea, Japan and then Vietnam, where […]

November 13, 2017

Court to Decide: Can School be Blamed for Suicide?

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology should be held responsible for the death of a graduate student who killed himself on campus in 2009 because officials knew he was a suicide risk and didn’t help him, an attorney for the man’s father told the state’s highest court Tuesday. Attorney Jeffrey Beeler is asking the […]

November 13, 2017

Democrats Seize on Election to Call for Healthcare Deal

Democrats on Wednesday seized on Obamacare enrollment figures as well as election wins for their party to urge Republican Senate leaders to pass a bipartisan healthcare bill. “If Republican leaders haven’t gotten the message voters made it pretty clear last night that they reject the deeply partisan message on healthcare,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the […]

November 13, 2017

Ex-Pharma Executive Named to Head HHS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive and industry lobbyist Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines. If confirmed, Azar also would take the lead in implementing Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the […]

November 13, 2017

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600,000 Enroll for Obamacare in First Few Days

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to take down “Obamacare,” more than 600,000 people signed up for coverage the first week of open enrollment, the government said Thursday. With only four days of data, experts said it’s hard to discern a trend. But definitely the Affordable Care Act doesn’t seem to be collapsing. […]

November 13, 2017

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Pot and Equity Issues

As California prepares to kick off the nation’s largest legal commerce in marijuana, it’s easy to salivate over the multibillion-dollar bonanza this could bring to the state and local economy, and to believe the hype that this wealth can reverse some of the damage wrought over decades by the war on drugs. But when Los […]

November 8, 2017

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Reservation Hospital Under Federal Sanctions

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — The Indian Health Service says a South Dakota reservation hospital previously found to be violating quality-of-care standards is facing new federal sanctions. IHS, the agency that administers the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, announced Friday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is placing the hospital on “immediate […]

November 8, 2017

CEO Steps Down in W.Va. Pain Pill Case

Drug giant Cardinal Health’s CEO is stepping down amid pressure from investors and a flurry of lawsuits in West Virginia and other states that seek to hold the company accountable for the nation’s opioid epidemic. Cardinal Health, which distributes more prescription drugs than any other wholesaler in West Virginia, announced Monday that CEO George Barrett […]

November 8, 2017

University Launches $5 B Campaign for Health

UC San Francisco on Friday launched one of the largest fundraising efforts ever set by a U.S. university, a $5 billion campaign aimed at tackling the most complex biomedical questions of our day and working more broadly to improve the quality of people’s health over their lifetimes. Rising health care costs and the treatment of […]

November 8, 2017

Survey: Medicaid Expansion Changed Mix of Patients

Among all physicians, the average share of Medicaid patients was 16.9% in 2016, up from 15.9% four years earlier. The number of doctors treating Medicaid patients also rose — from 81.9% to 82.6%. That share exceeded 90% for three hospital-based specialties — emergency medicine, anesthesiology and radiology — and was just under 90% for pediatrics, […]

November 8, 2017

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NIH Funds Study on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Diet

November 6, 2017—(BRONX, NY)—The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine nutrition scientist Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., R.D., a five-year, $4 million grant to test whether a diet rich in foods with anti-inflammatory properties can reduce cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease risk. Middle-aged and older participants from the Bronx will follow this […]

November 8, 2017

Trump: Shooter ‘Deranged’ vs. Experts: It’s Complicated

President Donald Trump blamed the Texas church shooting that left at least 26 dead on mental health problems, but experts say that it’s much more complicated than that. Trump, who’s visiting Japan, spoke about the shooting in a press conference Monday. Read More

November 8, 2017

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House GOP Bill Takes ACA Repeal Off the Table

House Republicans on Monday again rejected President Trump’s push to use their tax bill to repeal a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act, instead making only modest changes to their legislation as they attempt to move it closer to a vote on the House floor. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) […]

November 8, 2017

Contraceptives and Politics

Politics is the reflection of our principles—which might explain our hyperpolarized contemporary landscape. With renewed controversy on contraceptive use and religious freedom, we see the divide between Americans’ politics and our principles on women’s health care. Earlier this month, the Trump Administration officially rolled back the ACA’s contraception mandate, which required employer-provided health care plans […]

November 6, 2017

Veterans Reveal Medical Marijuana Use

Joshua James Frey is clear: “Without medical marijuana I would be dead.” This Marine Corps veteran is a two-time Purple Heart awardee. He is among the former warfighters, led by the American Legion, who are on the frontlines of the fight for a sensible, federal medical marijuana policy. Read More

November 6, 2017

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Nurse Arrested for Protecting Patient Wins $500,000 Settlement

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City and the University of Utah will each pay half of a $500,000 settlement to a Utah nurse who barred a police officer from drawing blood from an unconscious patient. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the settlement, announced Tuesday, ended the possibility of a lawsuit by Alex Wubbels, a […]

November 6, 2017

Survey Provides Insight on Transgender Demographics

The first release of transgender data from the California Health Interview Survey, the nation’s largest state survey, reveals the demographic characteristics of transgender adults in the state—such as population size, racial makeup and marital status—as well as sobering disparities in their health status. For example, one in five transgender adults in California has attempted suicide—a […]

November 6, 2017