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Médicos se apresuran a usar fallo de la Corte Suprema para liberarse de cargos por opioides
El doctor Nelson Onaro admitió el verano pasado que había escrito recetas ilegales, aunque dijo que solo pensaba en sus pacientes. Desde una pequeña clínica en Oklahoma, repartió cientos de pastillas de opioides y docenas de…
Formula May Be Right for Infants, but Experts Warn That Toddlers Don’t Need It
Christina Szalinski
Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost. But many…
Genetic Tests Create Treatment Opportunities and Confusion for Breast Cancer Patients
The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of genetic tests, including new instruments to inform patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer about the risk of recurrence and to guide their treatment.
But the…
Clearing Pollution Helps Clear the Fog of Aging — And May Cut the Risk of Dementia
During the past decade, a growing body of research has shown that air pollution harms older adults’ brains, contributing to cognitive decline and dementia. What hasn’t been clear is whether improving air quality would benefit…
Texas, Battling Teen Pregnancy, Recasts Sex Education Standards
DALLAS — J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school. A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated, and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall.
She was a teen mom…
Centene to Pay $166 Million to Texas in Medicaid Drug Pricing Settlement
Andy Miller and Samantha Young
Health insurance giant Centene Corp. has agreed to pay $165.6 million to Texas to resolve claims that it overcharged the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services.
It’s the biggest known…
Many Refugees Dealing with Trauma Face Obstacles to Mental Health Care
Erica Zurek and Alander Rocha
As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border.…
Doctors Rush to Use Supreme Court Ruling to Escape Opioid Charges
Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny, brick clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of…
Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures
ST. LOUIS — Christina Green hoped cataract surgery would clear up her cloudy vision, which had worsened after she took a drug to fight her breast cancer.
But the former English professor said her 2019 surgery with Ophthalmology…
Journalists Look Into Wildfire Trauma and the South’s Monkeypox Response
KHN reporter and producer Heidi de Marco discussed the impact of wildfire trauma on children in Northern California on CapRadio’s “Insight With Vicki Gonzalez” on Sept. 13.
Click here to hear de Marco on CapRadioRead de Marco’s “Children…