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Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended to curb the harm of insurance denials. This story also ran on NBC News. See below. West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency enrolls nearly 215,000 people — state […]
In the health system, news coverage naturally gravitates toward breakthroughs. A new therapy, a diagnostic powered by artificial intelligence, or a surgical advance captures imagination and headlines. These innovations deserve recognition. Yet they rest on a quieter foundation that rarely receives attention: the certainty that what a clinician needs will be available at the exact […]
As the SCOPE Summit unfolds over the coming days, a steady stream of announcements is shaping how clinical research teams think about feasibility, enrollment, and execution. These are not abstract discussions. They are practical responses to long-standing friction points in trial design that slow studies down and distance protocols from the realities of patient access. […]
[Reprinted with permission from NIH News in Health] If you’re an adult in the U.S., you can expect to gain 10 to 25 pounds between your 20s and your 40s. Starting between ages 30 and 40, you may find losing weight and exercising more challenging. The exercise you do may not have the same effect […]
[By Claudia Boyd-Barrett. Illustration by Oona Zenda. Reprinted with permission from KFF Health News.] Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to […]
[This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters.] By Gaea Cabico, a freelance reporter in New York. On the night Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2012, seawater from the Atlantic Ocean surged into the emergency room of what was then known as Coney Island Hospital. Staff […]
[REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION – FROM KFF Health News – By By Bram Sable-Smith; Illustrations by Oona Zenda] Last winter, Amber Wingler started getting a series of increasingly urgent messages from the local hospital in Columbia, Missouri, letting her know her family’s health care might soon be upended. MU Health Care, where most of her family’s doctors work, […]
[Reprinted with permission from KFF Health News. Authored by Céline Gounder] Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a seismic idea: adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The program, known as VICP, provides a system for families to file claims against vaccine providers […]
BOGALUSA, La. — Less than a mile from a century-old mill that sustained generations in this small town north of New Orleans, 19-year-old Tajdryn Forbes was shot to death near his mother’s house. She found Forbes face down in the street in August 2023, two weeks before he had planned to move away from the […]
The lowly bean is finally receiving the accolades it deserves. Originally viewed as a diet staple of the poor, the bean is essential in more ways than previously thought and research is indicating its value for everyone. Higher scores for diet quality and greater consumption of shortfall nutrients, especially nutrients of public health concern, are associated with […]
