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Music is resistant to memory being extinguished and has been found to have a role in both soothing and stimulating us, as well as being an aid in therapy..

[Reprinted with Permission from Kaiser Health News. Authored by Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez] FALLON, Nev. — Linda Noneo turned up the heat in her van to ward off the early-morning chill that persists in northern Nevada’s high desert even in late June. As the first rays of daylight broke over a Christian cross on the top […]

This story is authored by LAUREN SAUSSER and is reprinted with permission by KFF Health News. Sally Nix was furious when her health insurance company refused to pay for the infusions she needs to ease her chronic pain and fatigue. Nix has struggled with a combination of autoimmune diseases since 2011. Brain and spinal surgeries […]

Local TV and Broadcast News Among Most Trusted Sources for Health Information; Fewer Trust Social Media

The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month. Mental health experts say the three-digit number made help more accessible than before.

[KFF Health News By Bernard J. Wolfson and Melissa Montalvo, The Fresno Bee – Reprinted with Permission] For most of last year, St. Agnes Medical Center, based in Fresno, California, looked like a white knight poised to rescue smaller Madera Community Hospital from financial ruin. Now, with the nonprofit Madera, California, hospital bankrupt and shuttered, St. Agnes looms […]

[KFF Health News – By Taylor Sisk – Published with Permission. This story also appeared on CBS News] DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given her first Percocet at age 12 by a family member with a medicine cabinet […]

Most Consumers Across Types of Insurance Had a Problem with Their Coverage in the Past Year, Including About Three-Quarters of Those Who Used a Lot of Care or Received Mental Health Services

Burnout in the health care industry is a widespread problem that long predates the covid-19 pandemic, though the chaos introduced by the coronavirus’s spread made things worse.

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.