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A travel nurse leaves fears of hospital drug tampering across 3 states

Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating vials and syringes of opioid painkillers in two hospitals, then returning the vials to medication cabinets where they could be unknowingly given to patients.

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Tech glitches at one VA site raise concerns about a nationwide rollout

Spokane, Washington, was supposed to be the center of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ tech reinvention, the first site in the agency’s decadelong project to change its medical records software. But one morning in early March, the latest system malfunction made some clinicians snap.

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Who doesn’t text in 2022? Most state Medicaid programs

West Virginia will use the U.S. Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage.

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When symptoms linger for weeks, is it long COVID?

Many Americans are discovering that recovering from COVID-19 may take weeks or even months longer than expected, leaving them with lingering symptoms like intense fatigue or a racing pulse. But does that mean they have what’s known as long COVID?

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Doctors trying to prescribe abortion pills across state lines stymied by legislation

Soon after Dr. Mai Fleming finished her medical residency in the San Francisco Bay Area, she got to work on her Texas medical license. The family medicine doctor had no intention of moving there but invested nine months to master Texas medical law, submit to background checks, get fingerprinted and…

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Patients’ perilous monthslong waiting for medicaid coverage is a sign of what’s to come

Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance coverage. But in early March — five months, she said, after applying and with still no decision about her application — a suspected case of…

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Never-ending costs: When resolved medical bills keep popping up

Every now and then, Suzanne Rybak and her husband, Jim, receive pieces of mail addressed to their deceased son, Jameson. Typically, it’s junk mail that requires little thought, Suzanne said.

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COVID and schizophrenia: Why this deadly mix can deepen knowledge of the brain disease

Most of the time, the voices in Keris Myrick’s head don’t bother her. They stay in the background or say nice things. But sometimes they get loud and mean — like when a deadly pandemic descended on the world.

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A shortfall of ECMO treatment cost lives during the delta surge

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the work of the heart and lungs.

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Why Big Pharma loves Tim Scott

During the second half of 2021, Scott was the top recipient of drug campaign cash in Congress

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At a Tennessee crossroads, 2 pharmacies, a monkey and millions of pills

CELINA, Tenn. — It was about 1 a.m. on April 19, 2016, when a burglary alarm sounded at Dale Hollow Pharmacy in Celina, a tiny town in the rolling, wooded hills near the Kentucky border.

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As red states push strident abortion bans, other restrictions suddenly look less extreme

What is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement? It might be surprising.

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Bill of the Month: The case of the $489,000 air ambulance ride

Sean Deines and his wife, Rebekah, were road-tripping after he lost his job as a bartender when the pandemic hit. But while visiting his grandfather in a remote part of Wyoming, Sean started to feel very ill.

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Big Pharma is betting on bigger political ambitions from Sen. Tim Scott

Sen. Tim Scott, a rising star in the Republican Party with broad popularity in his home state of South Carolina, is getting showered with drug industry money before facing voters this fall.

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Senators ask GAO to examine Medicaid’s low COVID vaccination rates

Two prominent Democratic senators have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why COVID-19 vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population and what barriers are impeding state efforts to increase immunizations among program beneficiaries, low-income people who have been disproportionately affected by the virus.

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Evusheld is becoming hard to find

As immunocompromised people work to get a potentially life saving covid therapy, it's becoming harder to locate

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It was already hard to find Evusheld, a COVID prevention therapy. Now it’s even harder

As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving COVID-19 therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, making the therapy even harder to locate.

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One California university has unified town and gown to fight COVID. Why haven’t others?

Once a week, Lori Janich drives down the street from her office and partakes in an ongoing success story. Phone in hand to confirm her appointment, she strolls into the massive Activities and Recreation Center on the University of California, Davis campus, reaches a COVID-19 testing station, swirls water in…

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COVID still threatens millions of Americans. Why are we so eager to move on?

Iesha White is so fed up with the U.S. response to COVID-19 that she’s seriously considering moving to Europe.

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Mental health therapists seek exemption from part of law to ban surprise billing

Groups representing a range of mental health therapists say a new law that protects people from surprise medical bills puts providers in an ethical bind and could discourage some patients from care.

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Problems with Biden's rapid-test rollout

Two rapid-testing initiatives the Biden administration released in the past week are inaccessible to some Americans

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