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Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times
Public safety and health care organizations are using drones to speed up lifesaving treatment during medical emergencies in which every second counts.
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Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor
Colorado defended its high disenrollment rates following the covid crisis by saying that what goes up must come down. Advocates and researchers disagree.
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Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals
If Indiana officials approve a proposed hospital merger in western Indiana in the coming months, the state will have its first hospital monopoly created by a āCertificate of Public Advantage.ā Other such deals have resulted in government reports documenting diminished care in Tennessee and North Carolina.
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Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
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Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade ā Even When It Reports Failure
Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
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The Case of the Armadillo: Is It Spreading Leprosy in Florida?
A single Central Florida county reported 13% of all U.S. leprosy cases in 2020. Researchers have teamed up to investigate whether armadillos are passing the bacteria that cause the disease to humans ā which is especially concerning as the animals expand their range farther north.
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Doctors Take On Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured Patients
More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in Americaās dental deserts.
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Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
Hospitals are increasingly stretching a velvet rope, offering āconcierge serviceā to an affluent clientele. Critics say the practice exacerbates primary care shortages.
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After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
Ballad Health was granted the nationās largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.
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Health Care Workers Push for Their Own Confidential Mental Health Treatment
Montana may join about a dozen other states in creating āsafe havensā that keep health care professionals from facing scrutiny from licensure boards for seeking mental health or addiction treatment.
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More āNavigatorsā Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion and many states banned the procedure, reproductive health care organizations hired dozens of people to help patients arrange travel and pay for care.
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Ouch. That āFreeā Annual Checkup Might Cost You. Hereās Why.
The designers of the Affordable Care Act might have assumed that they spelled out with sufficient clarity that millions of Americans would no longer have to pay for certain types of preventive care. But they didnāt reckon with Americaās ever-creative medical billing juggernaut.
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Senate Probes the Cost of Assisted Living and Its Burden on American Families
In the wake of a Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News-New York Times series, members of the Special Committee on Aging are asking residents and their families to submit their bills and are calling for a Government Accountability Office study.
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Insurance Doesnāt Always Cover Hearing Aids for Kids
Californiaās governor vetoed a bill extending insurance coverage for kids with hearing loss, but most states now require it.
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āFinancial Ruin Is Baked Into the Systemā: Readers on the Costs of Long-Term Care
Thousands of people shared their experiences and related to the financial drain on families portrayed in the āDying Brokeā series, a joint project by Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and The New York Times that examined the costs of long-term care.
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Watch: She Had a Home and a Good-Paying Job. Then Illness and Debt Upended It All.
A chronic health diagnosis and medical debt reordered Sharon Woodward's life.
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Medicaid āUnwindingā Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get
The bottleneck caused by statesā reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.
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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trumpās Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics
Candidates see former President Donald Trumpās embrace of his administrationās covid-19 vaccine policies as an opportunity to gain ground. So far, their efforts havenāt found traction.
By Darius Tahir and Daniel Chang