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Health Workers Warn Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers
Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.
A CDC…
California Legislature Passes Gov. Newsom’s Proposal to Retool Mental Health Services Act
The California Legislature passed a pair of bills greenlighting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign to build 10,000 new beds and housing units and increase drug addiction treatment as part of his response to the state’s homelessness and…
California Lawmakers Approve Nation-Leading $25 Minimum Wage for Health Workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A sweeping agreement between labor and the health industry would gradually raise the minimum wage for hundreds of thousands of health workers in California to a nation-leading $25 an hour while ending a…
Rural Nursing Home Supporters Fear Proposed Staffing Standards Will Trigger More Closures
SYRACUSE, Neb. — Many rural communities like this one face a health care dilemma: Is it better to have a nursing home that struggles to hire workers or no nursing home at all?
The national debate over that question will heat up…
Abortion Bans Fuel a Rise in High-Risk Patients Heading to Illinois Hospitals
When she was around 22 weeks pregnant, the patient found out that the son she was carrying didn’t have kidneys and his lungs wouldn’t develop. If he survived the birth, he would struggle to breathe and die within hours.
The…
As More Patients Email Doctors, Health Systems Start Charging Fees
Meg Bakewell, who has cancer and cancer-related heart disease, sometimes emails her primary care physician, oncologist, and cardiologist asking them for medical advice when she experiences urgent symptoms such as pain or shortness…
Por qué los CDC recomiendan el nuevo refuerzo contra covid para todos
Un panel federal de expertos recomendó el martes 12 de septiembre que todas las personas desde los 6 meses en adelante reciban el nuevo refuerzo contra covid-19. Estiman que la vacunación universal podría prevenir 100,000…
Despite Successes, Addiction Treatment Programs for Families Struggle to Stay Open
MORA, Minn. — Two playgrounds border the Recovering Hope Treatment Center for addiction that sits at the end of a gravel road in eastern Minnesota’s rural Kanabec County. A meeting room inside is furnished with rocking chairs and…
Why the CDC Has Recommended New Covid Boosters for All
Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest covid-19 booster, a federal expert panel recommended Tuesday after hearing an estimate that universal vaccination could prevent 100,000 more hospitalizations each year than…
Un padre soñaba con una casa para su familia. La deuda médica casi los deja en la calle
DENVER. — A Kayce Atencio solía atormentarlo un pensamiento mientras trabajaba en un refugio para personas sin hogar en el centro de Denver. “Podría haber sido yo”, dijo Atencio, de 30 años, quien vive con su hijo y su hija en un…