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Connecticut Doctor Makes House Calls

STONINGTON, Conn. — For 87-year-old Bob Livermore and 88-year-old Malcolm Wheeler, having “Dr. Mike” come to their apartments in the StoneRidge Retirement Community has made the infirmities of old age easier to bear. “The last thing you want to do when you’re sick is get out of bed and get in a car and go […]

April 24, 2017

Trump Signs Healthcare Bill Vets

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill April 19 to temporarily extend a program that lets some veterans seek medical care in the private sector, part of an effort by the president to deliver on a campaign promise. The extension will give Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin time to develop a more comprehensive plan […]

April 24, 2017

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Congress Returns to Healthcare Issue

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on healthcare legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between President Donald Trump and Democrats over his border wall. Trump’s GOP allies control Congress, but they’ve been unable to send him a single major bill […]

April 24, 2017

Huntsman Slams University Officials Over Researcher’s Firing

SALT LAKE CITY — Wealthy philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. escalated his public protests Friday over the firing of the chief executive officer at the cancer institute at the University of Utah that bears his name, taking out full-page newspaper ads that call university officials “inept and uncaring.” Huntsman’s ads in the Deseret News and Salt […]

April 23, 2017

Anti-Trump Mental Health Professionals Convene at Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A group of mental health professionals that believe President Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president is convening at Yale despite criticism from both Trump supporters and professionals working in their field. The Connecticut Post reports that the group, Duty to Warn, is holding its first conference Thursday at Yale […]

April 20, 2017

Experts: Cut to NIH Funding Would be ‘Devastating’

Experts say the White House’s proposed $5.8 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health would be “devastating to the American people” and a “dramatic setback to medical progress.”

April 19, 2017

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GOP: Fake vs. Real

The most interesting policy argument in America right now is the debate between conservatives’ real position on health care and their fake position. The fake, but popular, position goes something like this: Conservatives think everyone deserves affordable health insurance, but they disagree with Democrats about how to get everyone covered at the best price. This […]

April 19, 2017

“Standards of Care” Can Help Diabetes Patients

POLSON — People diagnosed with diabetes can achieve a normal life if they adopt “Standards of care,” as promoted at Tribal Health Department’s annual Diabetes Care Day. Interactive booth displays featuring topics in healthy eating, exercise, foot care, and prescription management educated guests on health care standards required to prevent or manage diabetes. “Taking care […]

April 19, 2017

W.Va. Allows Opioid Antidotes at Schools

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Schools in West Virginia will be able to give drugs to students who overdose on opioids without having to first contact parents under a new law approved this week. The measure passed unanimously by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Jim Justice comes as West Virginia recorded 844 overdose deaths last […]

April 19, 2017

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Colleges Can Get Free Narcan

LOWELL — As the United States continues to grapple with the opioid crisis, a new program is targeting college campuses with an effort to deliver 40,000 doses of Narcan in an effort to save more lives. The program was initiated by the Clinton Foundation and Adapt Pharma, the maker of Narcan nasal spray. And the […]

April 19, 2017

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U.K. Gets $11M for Research on Obesity and Cancer

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky says it has received an $11.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a center to study links between obesity and cancer. Leaders at the school in Lexington announced details of the grant on Monday, saying it will fund the UK Center for Cancer […]

April 19, 2017

Data Show Disparities in Medicare Advantage

Significant gender, racial and ethnic differences exist in care received by beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage, according to two reports released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One report compared quality of care for women and men while the other report looked at racial and ethnic differences in healthcare experiences and clinical care in […]

April 19, 2017

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Study: Mental Health Care System Is Broken

The state of health care in the US may arguably be improving – partly thanks to the imperfect addition of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and partly due to the deserved collapse of the catastrophic American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 – but it is still rife with problems. Mental health care, in particular, […]

April 19, 2017

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Health Insurers Respond to Threat

President Donald Trump is trying to bring the Democrats to their knees with respect to the Affordable Care Act through devious means. He has recently issued threats to health insurers, suggesting that his government would not reimburse the companies for their coverage of low-income individuals. Meanwhile, a representative body of the health insurers has sent […]

April 19, 2017

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Penn State Launches New Research Effort to Help Abused Kids

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new research program at Penn State is aiming to improve the health of neglected and abused kids and to test a new way to screen children for head injuries. The university said Tuesday it will be establishing the Center for Healthy Children at its main campus. The initiative is supported by […]

April 18, 2017

Making Americans Sick Again

The Trump administration came into office promising to fix things. Donald Trump promised to vastly improve the affordability and availability of health insurance (and, therefore, health care) for all Americans. He has also promised to cut domestic government spending in a series of sweeping reforms that include drastically cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection […]

April 17, 2017

Foes of Assisted-Suicide Bill Rally in Nevada

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Frustrated after Democratic lawmakers cancelled debate for the second time in a week, patients and doctors rallied April 12 at the Nevada Legislature against a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. University of Nevada, Reno medical professor Kirk Bronander and Republican Sen. Joseph Hardy of Boulder City were among the physicians who […]

April 17, 2017

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VA Unveils Website for Data on Care

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has unveiled a new website aimed at providing information on the quality of care at VA medical centers, touting new accountability even as it grappled with fresh questions of patient safety in its beleaguered health system. The VA website, www.accesstocare.va.gov, is a work in progress. It provides preliminary […]

April 17, 2017