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Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with covid-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was.
Hospital leadership…
Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another
VALLEJO, Calif. — Three people gathered in a classroom on a recent rainy afternoon listened intently as Derrick Cordero urged them to turn their negative feelings around.
“What I’m hearing is that you’re a self-starter,” he…
How National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect Abortion Rights in…
ST. LOUIS — In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering…
Cuando tu cobertura de salud dentro de la red… simplemente se esfuma
Sarah Feldman, de 35 años, recibió las primeras cartas amenazantes del Centro Médico Mount Sinai en noviembre pasado. El sistema hospitalario de Nueva York le advirtió que tenía problemas para negociar un acuerdo de precios con…
As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident…
Covid and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom
Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.
The devices send those measurements electronically to his doctor in Gulf Shores,…
Joe Biden’s Skittish Support for Abortion Rights
President Biden spent much of his State of the Union speech last week talking about two subjects central to his reelection campaign while seemingly trying not to name them. One was Donald Trump, or as Biden called him, “my…
A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highway
Aside from a few discarded hypodermic needles on the ground, the Hunter’s Field Playground in New Orleans looks almost untouched. It’s been open more than nine years, but the brightly painted red and yellow slides and monkey…
When Copay Assistance Backfires on Patients
In early 2019, Jennifer Hepworth and her husband were stunned by a large bill they unexpectedly received for their daughter’s prescription cystic fibrosis medication. Their payment had risen to $3,500 from the usual $30 for a…
Montana, an Island of Abortion Access, Preps for Consequential Elections and Court Decisions
A years-long battle over abortion access in a sprawling and sparsely populated region of the U.S. may come to a head this year in the courts and at the ballot box.
Challenges to several state laws designed to chip away…