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Opioid Epidemic: Treatment Not Punishment

Second of three parts. Read part one: A Personal Look at a National Problem. Opioid addiction takes a personal toll, but it also has countrywide consequences. On an average day in the U.S., someone begins nonmedical use of opioids every 22 seconds; someone starts using heroin every two and a half minutes; and someone dies […]

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Administration Broadens Abortion Policy

The State Department announced Monday that it will broaden the definition of the “Mexico City” policy that bans U.S. aid from supporting organizations that perform or endorse abortions. The “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Initiative” broadens the policy that previously covered only family planning funds to now cover all foreign health assistance provided by […]

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Poll: 2 to 1, Americans Dislike Obamacare

WASHINGTON — House Republican legislation that repeals and replaces the Affordable Care Act with a measure that could leave 24 million more Americans without health insurance received a thumbs down from Americans in a new poll. By a 2 to 1 margin in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, they said the GOP’s American Health […]

Trumpcare Bad for W.Va., Senator Says

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Trump-backed healthcare bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Joe Manchin believes the bill has major issues and will likely move slowly through the U.S. Senate. Manchin called the new healthcare bill “troubling” Wednesday and says it will hurt thousands of West […]

Project: Cut Mercury for Women, Keep Fish

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health is working with health clinics to reduce the level of mercury in women of child-bearing age without sacrificing the benefits of eating fish. The department worked with health clinics in Cook County and on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation to sample the blood of nearly 500 […]

Massachusetts Weighs Tax on Sugary Drinks

BOSTON — Lawmakers on Beacon Hill are joining activists in other states pushing for taxes on sodas that they say will ease the rise in obesity-related diseases and bring in money for programs aimed at improving the health of children in Massachusetts. Supporters of the tax say that too many children and families in Massachusetts […]

Obamacare Premiums Set to Rise

Health insurers are asking for sharp increases in the cost of their Obamacare plans next year, thanks to instability in the law’s coverage markets that’s been compounded by the Trump administration. In Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut — the first states to make filings public — premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will rise more than […]

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Obama Hopes “Courage” Will Save Healthcare

Former President Barack Obama accepted the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award in Boston on Sunday, where he spoke broadly about the healthcare debate gripping the country. In his first remarks since the House passed a bill repealing and replacing Obama’s signature healthcare law, the former president ruminated on the idea of political courage. […]

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Unabated Lice Frustrate Families

RENO, Nev. — Reno mom Sara Kopp searches through every strand of her daughter’s blond hair at least once a week. She meticulously combs through it, watching for lice after treating her 10-year-old for the bugs 15 times over the school year. “When I realized my daughter had it after brushing her hair, I called […]

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Medical Student Incorporates Indigenous Medicine

Leo John Bird, a member of the AmskapiiPiikanii tribe, is known to his community as Piitahsoowatsis. A senior at Stanford University in California, Bird is majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Native American Studies. He comes from a culture that stresses family and equality, and it impacts his life as well as […]

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Budget Deal Defies Trump on Medical Research

The budget agreement Congress reached tonight would give the National Institutes of Health a $2 billion increase for the second year in a row, a Senate GOP aide confirms. That means congressional negotiators basically told the Trump administration to take a hike. The administration wanted to slash the agency’s funding by $1.2 billion in the […]

V.A. Doctor Suspended Over Prescriptions

CINCINNATI — Officials have indefinitely suspended the deputy chief of staff at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center in a move her lawyers call a “publicity stunt.” The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Dr. Barbara Temeck was suspended for writing three prescriptions for a private patient between December 2012 and May 2013. Her lawyer, Ken Hawley, says […]

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