Wastewater surveillance tracked Covid-19. Can it work for monkeypox? Researchers have used our wastewater to track the Covid-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases. Inverse · Aug 14, 2022
They call it ‘tranq’ — and it’s making street drugs even more dangerous Approaching a van that distributes supplies for safer drug use in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a man named Kyle noticed an alert about xylazine. Tribune News Service · Aug 14, 2022
The abortion war in Bristol A women's clinic moves a mile away — across state lines — as Tennessee makes abortion mostly illegal Salon · Aug 14, 2022
After ‘a lot of doors shut in our face,’ crusading couple celebrate passage of burn pit bill The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022
California Gov. Newsom pins political rise on abortion, guns, and health care SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gavin Newsom is fed up with Republicans for attacking abortion rights and blocking gun regulations — and with his own Democratic Party for failing to boldly and brashly take on the conservative right and push a progressive agenda. Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022
Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or infection. The OB-GYN has to make quick decisions about how to treat them, including whether to remove the dead or dying fetus to protect the health and life of the… Tribune News Service · Aug 9, 2022
When abortion laws and ER care conflict Doctors in some states are put in impossible positions when women experience emergency pregnancy complications Salon · Aug 8, 2022
When mental illness leads to dropped charges, patients often go without stabilizing care For seven years, Timothy Jay Fowler rotated between jail, forced psychiatric hospitalization and freedom. Tribune News Service · Aug 8, 2022
Nursing homes are suing the friends and family of residents to collect debts ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Lucille Brooks was stunned when she picked up the phone before Christmas two years ago and learned a nursing home was suing her. Tribune News Service · Aug 8, 2022
In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution. Tribune News Service · Aug 7, 2022
California could make abortion a right A measure is on the state ballot that would enshrine the right to abortion and birth control Salon · Aug 7, 2022
A California man’s ‘painful and terrifying’ road to a monkeypox diagnosis Two days after Kevin Kwong flew home to California from New York, his hands itched so badly, the pain jolted him from sleep. He thought the problem was eczema. Tribune News Service · Aug 7, 2022
Polio remerges as possible threat In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in the vaccine can mutate, regain virulence, and cause polio Salon · Aug 3, 2022
Citing a mental health crisis among young people, California lawmakers target social media Karla Garcia said her son’s social media addiction started in fourth grade, when he got his own computer for virtual learning and logged on to YouTube. Now, two years later, the video-sharing site has replaced both schoolwork and the activities he used to love — like composing music or serenading… Tribune News Service · Aug 3, 2022
Tribune News Service · Aug 1, 2022 The ambulance chased one patient into collections In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come to the crash site and pick her up.
Tribune News Service · Jul 28, 2022 Nurse midwives step up to provide prenatal care after 2 rural hospitals shutter birthing centers MUSCATINE, Iowa — Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn’t complete the two-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa’s outreach clinic in her southeastern Iowa hometown. It was a hot June day, and…
WEKU · Jul 28, 2022 Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills Debt lawsuits — a byproduct of America's medical debt crisis — can ensnare not only patients but also those who help sick and older people be admitted to nursing homes, a KHN-NPR investigation finds.
Tribune News Service · Jul 27, 2022 Post-Roe, people are seeking permanent sterilizations, and some are being turned away HELENA, Mont. — A handful of people recently gathered in the shade of a large pine tree for a going-away party of sorts. Their friend, Dani Marietti, was going to have her fallopian tubes removed, a decision she made after a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to…
Salon · Jul 26, 2022 "Sterilization showers" proliferating Anecdotal reports indicate that more people have been undergoing permanent birth control procedures
Tribune News Service · Jul 23, 2022 Biden’s FTC has blocked 4 hospital mergers and is poised to thwart more consolidation attempts Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission’s successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
Tribune News Service · Jul 21, 2022 Conservative blocs unleash litigation to curb public health powers Through a wave of pandemic-related litigation, a trio of small but mighty conservative legal blocs has rolled back public health authority at the local, state and federal levels, recasting America’s future battles against infectious diseases.
Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2022 Fighting monkeypox, sexual health clinics are underfunded and ill-equipped Clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases — already struggling to contain an explosive increase in infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea — now find themselves on the front lines in the nation’s fight to control the rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.
Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2022 In some states, voters will get to decide the future of abortion rights As states grapple with the future of abortion in the U.S., Michigan, California and Vermont could become the first states to let voters decide whether the right to abortion should be written into the state constitution.
WEKU · Jul 18, 2022 Conservative blocs unleash wave of litigation to curb public health powers A coalition of religious groups, conservative think tanks, and Republican attorneys general have chipped away at local and state authority, altering how the nation can respond during health crises.
Tribune News Service · Jul 17, 2022 Rural hospital rescue program is met with skepticism from administrators In West Texas, the tiny hospital in Crosbyton has only two beds, and they’re not always occupied.