Clinics Help Keep People With Serious Mental Illness Out Of ER
Providing regular care at a Texas clinic prevents patients from cycling back to the hospital in a psychiatric crisis.
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Dementia Rates Decline Sharply Among Senior Citizens
Education and better heart health may deserve credit.
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In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Grow Over Medicaid
Low-income residents in poverty-stricken Clay County worry what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin鈥檚 ambitions to overhaul the state鈥檚 Medicaid program go forward.
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Uncertain Fate Of Health Law Giving Health Industry Heartburn
The effect of 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 could have greatest consequences for hospitals. They accepted lower federal funding under the law because their uncompensated care was expected to fall as more people became insured.
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Victims Seek Payments As ‘Dr. Death’ Declares Innocence
While hundreds of his former patients submit claims for restitution, a Detroit cancer doctor convicted of making millions by purposefully poisoning them with drugs they didn鈥檛 need vows to prove his innocence.
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Study Finds Nearby Retail Clinics Don鈥檛 Drive Down ER Visits
The results suggest that retail clinics may not provide a solution for reducing unnecessary emergency department visits, researchers say.
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‘A Huge Improvement鈥: Study Finds Inmates Benefit From Much Shorter TB Treatment
A three-month drug regimen to treat latent TB in a California jail system was just as effective as the standard nine-month approach 鈥 and the patients were far more likely to finish treatment.
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Could Legalizing Pot Diminish California鈥檚 Gains Against Smoking?
Some experts worry that smoking pot could lead to use of tobacco, but proponents of marijuana legalization argue that the two products are different and should not be conflated.
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Surgeon General Murthy Wants America To Face Up To Addiction
More people struggle with alcohol or drugs than have cancer, and 1 in 5 Americans binge drink. It all costs the nation $420 billion a year. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says we know how to help.
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Blue Shield, California鈥檚 Biggest Obamacare Insurer, Vows It’s Not 鈥楻unning For The Hills鈥
The company鈥檚 CEO also dismisses Trump鈥檚 notion of selling insurance plans across state lines, calling it 鈥榩erplexing.鈥
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Electing To 鈥極pt Out鈥 Of Obamacare
Despite tax penalties, opponents of the nation鈥檚 health law are emboldened by President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 vow to scrap it. Others wonder why they should bother signing up.
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A Consumer鈥檚 Guide To Medicare鈥檚 New Rules On Doctor Pay
Federal officials have released final regulations for the new program, which will reward physicians for providing high quality, efficient care.
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Children鈥檚 Hospital Partnership Boosts Care For Sick Kids
An innovative partnership in which a children鈥檚 hospital shares revenue and costs with a community hospital helps improve access to specialized care.
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As Non-Medical Vaccine Exemptions Grow, Texas Parents Seek Transparency In Schools
Although the state has an overall high level of vaccinations, some people are concerned about growing pockets with high numbers of children who are not immunized.
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Podcast: The GOP’s Path To ‘Repeal And Replace’ May Not Be So Easy
KHN’s Julie Rovner and Mary Agnes Carey, The New York Times’ Margot Sanger-Katz and The Lancet’s Richard Lane discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act under GOP control of both the White House and Capitol Hill.
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Some Panic, Others Shrug At Prospect Of Losing Obamacare
Consumers who feel they pay too much for skimpy coverage may welcome Donald Trump鈥檚 changes to the health law, but those who are sick are deeply worried.
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Despite Anger At Health Law鈥檚 Mandate, GOP Plans Could Also Have Penalties
President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that he would like to keep the health law鈥檚 ban on preexisting conditions. But that only works if insurers can be guaranteed a robust market, so Republicans must figure out a way to coax in healthy customers.
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Medical Device Employees Are Often In The O.R., Raising Concerns About Influence
The 鈥渞eps,鈥 who are there to answer any technical questions that arise during surgery, also often cultivate close relationships with the doctors, leading to questions about how much influence they wield.
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Community Paramedics Work To Link Patients With Mental Health Care
Training these first responders to identify people who are suffering from mental illness and connect them with treatment other than the emergency room could be part of the solution to gaps in the nation鈥檚 mental health system.
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Abortion By Mail Delivers Promise For Better Access But Political Questions Remain
The experiment 鈥 involving 50 women in Hawaii, Oregon, New York and Washington 鈥 breaks ground by letting women get an abortion without visiting a clinic.
