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With sexually transmitted infections off the charts, California pushes at-home tests
Under California’s new law, plans regulated by the state must cover home STI tests when ordered by a health care...
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Pandemic poses short- and long-term risks to babies, especially boys
For fetuses exposed to COVID, the greatest danger is usually not the coronavirus itself, but the mother’s immune system.
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Breaking a 10-year streak, the number of uninsured Americans rises
Numbers run in contradiction to lower unemployment rates.
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Death by a thousand clicks
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten...
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Geriatric assessments could fine-tune cancer care for older adults
The goal is to better identify which patients can tolerate intensive chemotherapy and which patients may need modified treatment regimens.
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Looking for lower Medicare drug costs? Ask your pharmacist for the cash price
Under a little-known Medicare rule, seniors can pay a lower cash price for prescriptions instead of using their insurance.
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Drugmakers blamed for blocking generics have cost U.S. billions
By delaying development of generics, drugmakers can maintain their monopolies and keep prices high.
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Trump proposes cutting Planned Parenthood funds
Planned Parenthood, which provides a broad array of reproductive health services, also provides abortion services using nonfederal funds. Cutting...
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Patient advocacy groups take in millions from drugmakers. Is there a payback?
KHN launches “Pre$cription for Power,” a groundbreaking database to expose Big Pharma’s ties to patient groups.
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‘Aggressive’ new advance directive would let dementia patients refuse food
Critics say it’s a disturbing effort to allow withdrawal of basic sustenance from the most vulnerable in society.
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Thousands mistakenly enrolled during state’s Medicaid expansion, feds find
California signed up an estimated 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage.
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Women in medicine shout #MeToo about sexual harassment at work
Women are combating sexual harassment in the medical field at every level, from patients’ bedsides to the executive boardroom.
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Congress tackles the opioid epidemic. But how much will it help?
“We haven’t seen the peak of the epidemic. We are seeing the numbers climb year after year,” said Baltimore’s Dr. Leana Wen.