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Long-Term Care Facilities Must Provide Addiction Care, Advocates Say
When you think about the opioid crisis, the image of adults in their 20s, 30s, even sometimes those who are middle-aged, may come to mind. Rightly so, since most overdose deaths occur in people between ages 25 and 64.…
PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51.
CUTHBERT, Ga. — While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice cream, homemade cake, or cookies.
It wasn’t a bake sale, but the sweets bring…
Voters Fret High Medical Bills Are Being Ignored by Presidential Rivals
Tom Zawierucha, 58, a building services worker in New Jersey, wishes candidates would talk more about protecting older Americans from big medical bills.
Teresa Morton, 43, a freight dispatcher in Memphis, Tennessee, with…
A California Official Helped Save a Mental Health Company’s Contract. It Flew Him to London.
The director of California’s mental health commission traveled to London this summer courtesy of a state vendor while he was helping to prevent a $360 million budget cut that would have defunded the company’s contract.…
Crackdown on Homeless Encampments Raises Public Health Questions
As states turn to the health-care system to help address homelessness, experiments with housing and other social services aimed at getting people healthier and off the streets are running up against new, aggressive crackdowns —…
Residentes de Maryland votarán por un amplio “derecho a la libertad reproductiva”
En noviembre, los votantes de 10 estados decidirán si protegerán o ampliarán, o no, el derecho al aborto. Entre ellos, se encuentran estados que son terreno fuerte de la batalla electoral como Arizona y Nevada, y bastiones…
Can You Rely on Your Mammogram To Identify Heart Disease Risk?
Michelle Andrews
Jackie Fortiér reported the audio story.
When people check in for their annual mammogram these days, some may face a surprising question: In addition to reviewing the mammogram for breast cancer, would the…
Marylanders To Vote on Expansive ‘Right to Reproductive Freedom’
Voters in 10 states will consider whether or not to protect or expand abortion rights in November. That includes battleground states such as Arizona and Nevada and such Republican strongholds as South Dakota and Missouri.…
Beneficiarios de Medicare gastarán menos en medicamentos en 2025
Cuando Pam McClure se enteró que el próximo año ahorraría casi $4,000 en sus medicamentos recetados dijo: “parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad”.
Para finales de 2024, habrá gastado casi $6,000 en estos fármacos,…
Víctimas del tiroteo del desfile del Super Bowl reconstruyen sus vidas, pero la violencia con armas…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Veinticuatro minutos antes del tiroteo masivo en el desfile del Super Bowl de los Kansas City Chiefs, en febrero, que dejó un muerto y al menos 24 heridos, Jenipher Cabrera sintió cómo una bala le perforaba…