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Steve Earle 2022 Tour Dates and a new album
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Tour Dates:
6/1—Decatur, AL—Princess Theatre
6/3—Nashville, IN—Brown County Music Center
6/4—Warrendale, PA—Jergel’s Rhythm Grille
6/5—Phoenixville, PA—Colonial Theatre
6/7—Springfield, MO—Gillioz Theatre…
Rehab Center Key As Overdose Deaths Rise
In the second half of 2019, overdose deaths soared. Public health officials had warned of a potential increase in drug overdoses, but a new epidemic called COVID-19, or a chronic opioid use disorder, had begun disrupting American…
Abortion Opponents Take Political Risks by Dropping Exceptions for Rape, Incest, and the Mother’s…
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
If it seems as though the anti-abortion movement has gotten more extreme in recent months, that’s because it has.
But it’s not the first time — positions taken by both sides of the…
Taco Bowls and Chicken Curry: Medi-Cal Delivers Ready Meals in Grand Health Care Experiment
Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News and Angela Hart
VICTORVILLE, Calif. — Every Friday, Frances De Los Santos waits for a shipment of healthy, prepared meals to land on her front porch at the edge of the Mojave Desert. From the box, the…
Politics and Pandemic Fatigue Doom California’s Covid Vaccine Mandates
Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In January, progressive California Democrats vowed to adopt the toughest covid vaccine requirements in the country. Their proposals would have required most Californians to get the…
Her First Colonoscopy Cost Her $0. Her Second Cost $2,185. Why?
Elizabeth Melville and her husband are gradually hiking all 48 mountain peaks that top 4,000 feet in New Hampshire.
“I want to do everything I can to stay healthy so that I can be skiing and hiking into my 80s — hopefully even…
Got Long Covid? Medical Expertise Is Vital, and Seniors Should Prepare to Go Slow
Judith Graham
Older adults who have survived covid-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, muscle aches, heart palpitations, headaches, joint pain, and difficulty with memory…
Agotados por covid y por trabajar 80 horas a la semana, médicos residentes deciden sindicalizarse
En las primeras semanas de la pandemia, el doctor Lorenzo González, entonces residente de segundo año de medicina familiar en el Centro Médico Harbor-UCLA, trabajaba hasta 80 horas a la semana en la unidad de terapia intensiva.…
‘An Arm and a Leg’: Private Equity Is Everywhere in Health Care. Really.
Dan Weissmann
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When a listener wrote to us about a pricey colonoscopy quote, we got curious. It turns out, a few years…
Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs
Emily Pisacreta and Emmarie Huetteman
Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist.
Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that is…