States overhauling Medicaid rolls have accidentally dropped eligible people from coverage, sometimes for months. That can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications.
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Meet the doctors trying to integrate abortion into primary care
Why is abortion care usually delivered at specialized clinics? The answer has to do more with stigma and politics than medicine. Historically, this part of reproductive health care has been siloed.
A New Jersey hospital moves its nurse managers to a four-day work week due to burnout
A hospital in New Jersey is among several that have moved nurse managers, who oversee scores of bedside nurses on a unit, to a four-day work week to address burnout and high turnover.
Cyberattack led to harrowing lapses at Ascension hospitals, clinicians say
Problems caused by the attack included delayed or lost lab results, medication errors, and an absence of routine safety checks to prevent potentially fatal mistakes, doctors and nurses told reporters.
Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it’s his last
Over the course of his decades-long career in public health, Fauci vowed he would never shy away from speaking truth the U.S. president— even when it was inconvenient. Fauci’s memoir is On Call.
50% of U.S. military bases are in a health care desert, NPR probe finds
An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.
Why providers say abortion ban exceptions continue to cause confusion
Florida recently issued new guidance on when an abortion can be performed under exceptions, but providers say it has caused even more confusion.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA’s approval of mifepristone
The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.
In Baltimore, nurses go door-to-door to bring primary care to the whole neighborhood
A cadre of Johns Hopkins nurses are adapting a model for primary care that’s been successful in Costa Rica. They will visit every household in a Baltimore community to assess health care and social needs at least once a year.
How to reduce health care’s climate impact? Increase telehealth
A new study finds telehealth for cancer treatment could make a big difference in reducing carbon footprint of health care. Health care generated 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and there’s a growing effort in medicine to find ways to reduce this impact.
