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Nursing Homes Are Suing the Friends and Family of Residents to Collect Debts
Noam N. Levey
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Lucille Brooks was stunned when she picked up the phone before Christmas two years ago and learned a nursing home was suing her.
“I thought this was crazy,” recalled Brooks, 74, a retiree…
Watch: Navigating Social Media After Mass Shootings
By Hannah Norman
July 28, 2022
Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News
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Buffalo, New York. Uvalde, Texas. Highland Park, Illinois. Graphic imagery and news…
Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?
Michelle Andrews
When President Joe Biden tested positive for covid-19 on July 21, his physician recommended he take the antiviral drug Paxlovid. The drug significantly reduces the likelihood of hospitalization or death for someone at…
The US Mental Health Hotline Network Is Expanding, but Rural Areas Still Face Care Shortages
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s 988 phone number, which launched July 16, was designed as a universal mental health support tool for callers at any time anywhere.
But the U.S. is a patchwork of resources for crisis…
To Stem the Spread of Monkeypox, Health Departments Tap Into Networks of Those Most at Risk
Céline Gounder
On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. It was a contentious decision, with the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the…
Health Insurance Price Data: It’s Out There, but It’s Not for the Faint of Heart
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News
Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much.
That’s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health insurers are posting…
The Ambulance Chased One Patient Into Collections
In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come…
Listen: Can California Lower the Price of Insulin?
California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on KCRW’s “Press Play With Madeleine Brand” and KJZZ, a public radio station in Phoenix, this month to discuss California’s plan to reduce the cost of some prescription…
‘American Diagnosis’: Two Indigenous Students Share Their Path to Medicine
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The transcript for this segment is being processed. We’re working to post it four to five days after the episode airs.
Episode 9: “Two Paths, Two Future Physicians”…
Even Well-Intended Laws Can’t Protect Us From Inaccurate Provider Directories
Bernard J. Wolfson
If you have medical insurance, chances are you’ve been utterly exasperated at some point while trying to find an available doctor or mental health practitioner in your health plan’s network.
It goes like…