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Blogs/Opinion
Banned Words
The Washington Post recently reported that, in an unprecedented and dangerous move, the Trump-Pence administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using seven key words and phrases: “evidence-based,” “science-based,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” and “diversity.” As a health care provider committed to fighting health disparities and caring for everyone who […]
January 3, 2018
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Policies
Recreational Market Clouds Picture for California Medical Marijuana
LOS ANGELES — When Elias Zaldivar was an 18-year-old college freshman and decided he was in the market for marijuana, he knew just how to get it, and it didn’t involve canvassing the corridors of his campus in search of that stoned-out dude who sold pot from his dorm room. Instead, he went straight to […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
WHO: Too Much Video Gaming? It’s an Illness
It was only a matter of time before health officials diagnosed video game characters such as Mario and Super Mario as addictive, as the World Health Organization basically will do when it adds “gaming disorder” to its disease list next year. The decision is cause for celebration in mental-health circles, with La Crosse therapist Jeff […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
“Food Swamps” Pose Threats to Health
The term “food desert” conjures the image of a forlorn citizen, wandering through a barren landscape for miles and miles (or, by definition, for more than a mile) to reach the nearest fresh-food market. Populating food deserts with grocery stores is a favored cause among nutrition advocates, but the concept became controversial after some recent […]
January 3, 2018
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Policies
Tax on Medical Devices Resumes
The device industry has long pushed for repeal of the excise tax, recruiting unconventional allies including Democratic lawmakers from states with big industry in Massachusetts and Minnesota. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the industry’s main trade association, has argued the tax hurts research and development and cost 29,000 medtech jobs during the three years […]
January 3, 2018
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Policies
Top Health Care Stories of 2017
This past year has been chaotic, especially in the world of health care. From multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with the American Health Care Act, to the expanding opioid epidemic, experts from both sides of the political aisle had their opinions on these controversial health topics: Read More
January 3, 2018
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Other News
Half of Republicans Believe Fake News on Obamacare
It’s become increasingly apparent that conservatives continue to divorce themselves from objective reality, as a new poll shows that a near majority of Republicans believe President Donald Trump successfully repealed the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. With all the recent talk of how fake news is generated, one formula continues to rein successful: The […]
January 3, 2018
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Other News
ProPublica: How Hospitals Fail Black Mothers
NEW YORK — When Dacheca Fleurimond decided to give birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center earlier this year, her sister tried to talk her out of it. Her sister had recently delivered at a better-rated hospital in Brooklyn’s gentrified Park Slope neighborhood and urged Fleurimond, a 33-year-old home health aide, to do the same. Read […]
January 3, 2018
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Blogs/Opinion
Repeal and Stabilize
As President Trump and Congressional Republicans move toward passing a critical tax cut and reform package to boost the economy, they also have the opportunity to start repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Repealing the individual mandate in the tax bill is a good first step toward a better market for health insurance that […]
December 21, 2017
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Policies
The Price of Hope: $750,000
It would have been just another midsummer day of activities and camaraderie at church camp, except that Colin English hadn’t felt right since he rolled out of his bunk bed. His legs had felt weak, and at first he couldn’t move them. Only with the help of campmates did the 12-year-old make his way to […]
December 21, 2017
Disparities
Chinatown Hospital in L.A. Closes After 157 Years
LOS ANGELES —The oldest hospital in Los Angeles has shut down and laid off all its employees after more than 150 years, sending shockwaves through the Chinatown neighborhood that it served in recent decades. Pacific Alliance Medical Center – better known as the French Hospital — quietly closed its doors Nov. 30, the Los Angeles […]
December 21, 2017
Policies
Abortion Activists Send H.H.S. Officials Condoms for Holidays
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-abortion and population control environmentalist group lobbied Trump appointees in the Department of Health and Human Services to “protect reproductive rights” and “address population growth” last week by sending them “Endangered Species Condoms for the Holidays.” Six Trump HHS appointees were sent “a colorful package” of the […]
December 21, 2017
Policies
Author of Bill Would Welcome State Mandates
Sen. Bill Cassidy said he welcomes the possibility that blue states could voluntarily create their own individual mandates or enact other measures in response to Congress repealing the penalties from Obamacare. “Our big thing about federalism is that states are quite capable of doing that,” said Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who has pressed for Congress […]
December 21, 2017
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Policies
How Tax Plan Could Affect Health Care
Companies should brace for change. The 30-plus-year drought since the last tax code overhaul may be over as Congress sets out to vote on and place a now-finalized tax bill on President Donald Trump’s desk. The bill slashes the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, and also includes massive changes to how income earned […]
December 21, 2017
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Other News
HHS Withholds Public Comments on Ruling
HHS is defending its decision to withhold more than 10,000 public comments on a proposal that could affect access to abortion and care for transgender patients. “There has been a voluminous response to the [request for information], and the center’s team is working through a review of the submissions,” Shannon Royce, who leads the agency’s […]
December 21, 2017
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Other News
Judge Allows Abortions for 2 Detained Teens
WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials must allow two pregnant teenage immigrants being held in a detention facility to see a doctor about having abortions, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington issued a temporary restraining order that bars administration officials from preventing the two 17-year-olds from leaving the shelter where […]
December 21, 2017
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Blogs/Opinion
Test Trump’s Brain
When President Trump slurred his words during a news conference this week, some Trump watchers speculated that he was having a stroke. I watched the clip and, as a physician who specializes in brain function and disability, I don’t think a stroke was behind the slurred words. But having evaluated the chief executive’s remarkable behavior […]
December 18, 2017
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Other News
Screening Babies for Heart Disease Reduces Deaths
Infant deaths from critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) decreased more than 33 percent in eight states that mandated screening for CCHD using a test called pulse oximetry. In addition, deaths from other or unspecified cardiac causes decreased by 21 percent. Pulse oximetry is a simple bedside test to determine the amount of oxygen in a […]
December 18, 2017
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