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Trump Signs Order to Improve Mental Health Care for Vets

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon paving the way for servicemembers to be enrolled automatically with the Department of Veterans Affairs for mental health care when they leave the military – an attempt to eliminate barriers for transitioning troops to get treatment during their first year after service. The order, titled “Supporting […]

Book: To Avoid “Obese” BMI, Trump Exaggerates Height

A new book claims that President Trump has been lying about his height in order to avoid being categorized as obese. “An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese), he personally found healthcare and […]

Trump to Act on Medicaid Work Rules

The Trump administration is preparing to release guidelines soon for requiring Medicaid recipients to work, according to sources familiar with the plans, a major shift in the 50-year-old program. The guidelines will set the conditions for allowing states to add work requirements to their Medicaid programs for the first time, putting a conservative twist on […]

Experts: Social Media Contacts Could Hold Key to Stopping Disease Spread

Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak in its tracks, researchers said Wednesday. Such people would be “central” in their social networks, and thus likelier to spread disease-causing germs from one group to another. Assuming there is an outbreak, and not enough […]

Trump Rule Could Let More People Drop Obamacare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration proposed a rule on Thursday to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind the 2010 healthcare law. The rule, put forward by the Department of Labor, would allow individuals […]

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Snopes: Hurricane Maria and the IV Bag Shortage in U.S.

On 28 December 2017, a tweet from a man in California focused attention on one of less-reported aftereffects of the damage caused by the massive Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017. Ben Boyer’s post criticized the Trump administration’s response to the disaster while describing a recent hospital visit: My wife’s nurse […]

Recreational Market Clouds Picture for California Medical Marijuana

LOS ANGELES — When Elias Zaldivar was an 18-year-old college freshman and decided he was in the market for marijuana, he knew just how to get it, and it didn’t involve canvassing the corridors of his campus in search of that stoned-out dude who sold pot from his dorm room. Instead, he went straight to […]

WHO: Too Much Video Gaming? It’s an Illness

It was only a matter of time before health officials diagnosed video game characters such as Mario and Super Mario as addictive, as the World Health Organization basically will do when it adds “gaming disorder” to its disease list next year. The decision is cause for celebration in mental-health circles, with La Crosse therapist Jeff […]

“Food Swamps” Pose Threats to Health

The term “food desert” conjures the image of a forlorn citizen, wandering through a barren landscape for miles and miles (or, by definition, for more than a mile) to reach the nearest fresh-food market. Populating food deserts with grocery stores is a favored cause among nutrition advocates, but the concept became controversial after some recent […]

Tax on Medical Devices Resumes

The device industry has long pushed for repeal of the excise tax, recruiting unconventional allies including Democratic lawmakers from states with big industry in Massachusetts and Minnesota. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the industry’s main trade association, has argued the tax hurts research and development and cost 29,000 medtech jobs during the three years […]

Top Health Care Stories of 2017

This past year has been chaotic, especially in the world of health care. From multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with the American Health Care Act, to the expanding opioid epidemic, experts from both sides of the political aisle had their opinions on these controversial health topics: Read More

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The Price of Hope: $750,000

It would have been just another midsummer day of activities and camaraderie at church camp, except that Colin English hadn’t felt right since he rolled out of his bunk bed. His legs had felt weak, and at first he couldn’t move them. Only with the help of campmates did the 12-year-old make his way to […]

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