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Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Critics Call Feds’ Response Feeble and Fractured.
Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east of the Cascade Range.
Beginning last winter, it operated for months without…
These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Like most medical offices, the small suite of exam rooms at the PhiferCares Clinic fills daily with patients seeking help with bumps and bruises, sore throats, and stuffy noses.
But there’s an…
Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting
Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible.
Recovery…
Unpacking the FDA’s Non-Recall Recalls
When the Agriculture Department posted a recall of chicken nuggets that might be contaminated, it directed consumers to return them or throw the stuff away.
When the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that…
Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems
Ballad Health, an Appalachian company with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, may soon be required to improve its quality of care or face the possibility of being broken up.
Government documents…
Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed
Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
“The pharmacy told me I…
California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others in regulating the middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, whom many policymakers blame…
La tasa de personas sin seguro médico se mantiene estable, a pesar de la purga de Medicaid
La proporción de personas sin seguro de salud se mantuvo estable en 2023, informó la Oficina del Censo. Fue solo un poco más alta que el récord del año anterior, gracias a la expansión de programas públicos de la administración…
Polémica estrategia contra la violencia con armas de fuego pone a policías armados en las escuelas
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania. — En marzo de 2023, la falsa alarma de que un hombre armado andaba recorriendo escuelas secundarias católicas desencadenó una fuerte respuesta policial y evacuaciones aterradoras en la ciudad. También…
Décadas de programas nacionales contra el suicidio no han frenado estas muertes
Si tú o alguien que conoces pudiera estar pasando por una crisis de salud mental, comunícate con la línea directa de suicidio y crisis 988, marcando o enviando un mensaje de texto al “988”.
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