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Section: Health
Blogs/Opinion
Embrace Single-Payer Plan
With the collapse of RyanCare, the Trump administration is looking for a new plan. We’re going to need one, since health-care reform isn’t going away. At best, we just kicked the can down the road. We’re still living with the night of the living dead that is ObamaCare. It’s slowly dying because too few people […]
April 5, 2017
Nursing
Prosecutors: Fake “Nurse” Treated Patients
SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors have charged a man with no medical training of lying his way into a volunteer nursing position at a San Francisco clinic. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 39-year-old Brian Litz was arraigned March 30 on charges of practicing medicine without a license and identity theft. He has pleaded not guilty. […]
April 5, 2017
Other News
Senate Extends Private Care for Vets
WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved legislation that would extend a troubled program aimed at widening veterans’ access to private-sector health care, the first step in an overhaul of programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill passed by voice vote on April 3. It would allow the VA to continue operating its Choice […]
April 5, 2017
Other News
Abortion Rules Advance in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas already requires abortion providers to inform women about the risks involved in the procedure. Soon, it may also require them to tell women where the doctor performing an abortion went to medical school. In black, 12-point size lettering, Times New Roman font, no less. The Kansas House voted 85 to 38 […]
April 5, 2017
Policies
Golfing Increases Paul’s Optimism on Healthcare
Despite threats from some of his top advisers and even from President Trump himself that he would try to defeat some leading congressional conservatives in primaries, the president had a golf outing with Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Sunday that brightened hopes that the rift between the administration and congressional conservatives could be healed — and […]
April 5, 2017
Policies
Bill Would Expand Medicare Telehealth
Senate lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding telehealth services for Medicare patients. Under the Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act, eligible hospitals would test telehealth services through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. CMMI would evaluate the services for cost, effectiveness and quality of care, and those that past muster would be […]
April 5, 2017
Disparities
Rural Hospitals at Risk If ACA Ends
More rural hospitals could fail if lawmakers replace the ACA with a plan that reduces Medicare and Medicaid funding, on which they heavily rely. According to a new study by Health Management Partners, Medicare and Medicaid patients account for 63% of rural hospitals’ volume, compared with 49% at urban hospitals. Read More
April 5, 2017
Disparities
Cancer Deaths Decline for Most Types
Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014. The report finds that death rates during the period 2010-2014 decreased for 11 of the 16 most common types of cancer […]
April 5, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Nursing Error & Son’s Death
On Saturday, the 5th of November, 2011, my life fell apart when my only son Tyler left this world. One week before that, on the morning of the 28th of October, I received a phone call that no mother ever wants to receive. I was asked to go immediately to the hospital. And when I […]
April 3, 2017
Other News
Psychiatrist Shortage Means Long Waits
ALLENTOWN,Pa. — Sue Drabic of Allentown knew right away something was wrong with a family member, a college student at the time. “He was having delusional statements, like talking about saving the world,” she said, recalling the episode. “He was saying it in a way that you could tell he was serious about it.” All […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Indiana Enlists Barbers in Health Initiative
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana health campaign is enlisting black-owned barbershops in a push to bring free health screenings and information on common diseases to black men. The seventh annual Black Barbershop Initiative kicked off March 31 at Community Action of Southern Indiana in Jeffersonville with free health screenings, door prizes and health information. […]
April 3, 2017
Other News
Abu-Jamal to Get Hep C Drug
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania prison officials say they will soon begin giving expensive new medication to former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to treat his hepatitis C infection. The Department of Corrections told a federal judge Friday that Abu-Jamal will be treated with an antiviral medication that can cost $50,000 to $60,000 per patient. Treatment will […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Price Bought Drug Stock, Aided Firm
On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits and driven down their share prices, records obtained by […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan, Patients in Limbo
Under the crisp midday sun in the hills of rural West Virginia, the Myers family pile out of their tired, red pick-up truck in the car park of the Cabin Creek Health Centre. “A couple of them had the flu and this one had an allergic reaction and we can’t figure out what it is […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Opioid Epidemic Exposes Racial Disparities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for prescription drug addiction, though they traveled from as far as Nashville and Missouri. They […]
April 3, 2017
Other News
N.J. Bills Seek Tax Credit for Organ Donors
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey lawmaker wants to offer tax credits to organ donors, but his no-strings approach is meeting opposition from groups who believe the practice runs afoul of federal law. While the National Organ Transplant Act makes it illegal for hospitals to pay for organs, 19 states provide either a tax credit […]
April 2, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Trump’s Attack on The Poor
Obamacare will be the law of the land for the “foreseeable future”, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted in the aftermath of the abject failure of Donald Trump or the Republican party to “repeal or replace” Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act (ACA) after seven years of bleating about it. The […]
March 29, 2017
Disparities
Gene Sequencing Project Will Focus on Latinos
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the country, is partnering with the flagship hospital of the Miami Children’s Health System to sequence the genes of nearly 1,000 Latinos and Hispanics to better understand the health needs of the populations. Philanthropist Denny Sanford and Sanford Health have given $7 […]
March 29, 2017
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