Needle pain is a big problem for kids. One California doctor has a plan
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by Tribune News Service
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April Dembosky, KQED | KFF Health News (TNS) Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after another. “The first shots he got, I probably cried more than he did,” said Remy Anthes, who was pushing her 6-month-old son, Dorian, back and forth in his stroller in Oakland, California. “The look in her eyes, it’s hard to take,” said Jill Lovitt, recalling how her infant daughter Jenna reacted to some recent vaccines. “Like ..read more
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COVID-19 can damage the heart, even without infecting it, study says
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by Tribune News Service
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Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) COVID-19 can damage your heart, even when the virus doesn’t directly infect cardiac tissue. That’s the latest from a recent study supported by the National Institutes of Health. Published in the journal Circulation, the study observed the damaged hearts of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with the virus and determined that COVID-19 patients suffering from severe lung infections were at risk of heart damage. The findings may prove to be relevant to organs other than the heart and to viruses other than COVID-1 ..read more
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People are living longer. Here’s how to stay current on the topic of aging
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by Helen Dennis
9h ago
The topic of aging seems to be everywhere and relevant to almost every aspect of life. That was not the case in the mid-1970s when I started in the field. Being a newcomer at the time, I decided to get a sense of what was considered newsworthy and important by tracking age-related happenings in the print media. I clipped articles from four daily newspapers and occasional periodicals, cut and pasted them (literally) on a sheet of paper, noted the source and date, punched three holes in the single sheet of paper and inserted the sheet into a three-ring binder. (Yes, this is history.) In addition ..read more
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Steward Health Care’s tentative sale to UnitedHealth raises concerns in Massachusetts
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by Lance Reynolds
1d ago
A healthcare giant set to purchase a nationwide physician network from financially disgruntled hospital operator Steward Health Care is catching flak from Massachusetts lawmakers who are calling for a careful review of the deal. State healthcare officials have received notifications in connection with the proposed sale of Stewardship Health Inc. and the contracting Steward Health Care Network to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. Stewardship Health Inc. is the parent of Stewardship Health Medical Group Inc., which employs primary care physicians and other clinicians across nine sta ..read more
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Hack poses financial problems for community health centers
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by Tribune News Service
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Jessie Hellmann | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call Community health centers and organizations that primarily serve low-income people are being disproportionately hurt by the biggest hack in health care history, which has disrupted payments for thousands of health care providers for a month now. The hack, which crippled Change Healthcare, the clearinghouse for 30% of medical claims in the United States, has forced providers to find alternative funding sources to stay afloat. For large providers, like many health care systems, that comes in the form of reserves set aside for emergencies. But for smaller provi ..read more
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Rapid rise in syphilis hits Native Americans hardest
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by Tribune News Service
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Cecilia Nowell | (TNS) KFF Health News From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross the sprawling Navajo Nation searching for patients who have tested positive for or been exposed to a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S.: syphilis. Infection rates in this region of the Southwest — the 27,000-square-mile reservation encompasses parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah — are among the nation’s highest. And they’re far worse than anything Wyaco, who is from Zuni Pueblo (about 40 miles south of Gallup) and is the nurse consu ..read more
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5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court
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by Associated Press
2d ago
By Matthew Perrone, Amanda Seitz and Christine Fernando, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit Americans’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have major implications for the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of thousands of medications. It’s the first abortion-related case the court has taken since a majority of the current justices struck down the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. A group of anti-abortion doctors had asked the court to restrict access to mifepristone ..read more
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Holyoke Soldiers’ Home ex-superintendent pleads guilty to neglect
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by Flint McColgan
2d ago
The former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers Home, where at least 76 veterans died in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, has pleaded guilty to five charges of neglect but will serve no prison time. Judge Edward McDonough, Jr., accepted the guilty plea of Bennett Walsh to five counts of neglect of an elder related to Walsh’s decision to combine multiple dementia care units into one in March 2020, which in turn led to the deaths of numerous residents who had not been exposed to the virus before the change. McDonough ordered the case be continued for three months without a finding and ..read more
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Biden said Medicare drug price negotiations cut the deficit by $160B. That’s years away
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by Tribune News Service
2d ago
Amy Sherman | (TNS) KFF Health News We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma. President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address, March 7, 2024 ____ President Joe Biden has been making his case for reelection to voters by telling them he is good for their pocketbooks, including at the pharmacy counter. During his State of the Union address, Biden said legislation he signed gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. “That’s not just saving seniors money and taxpayers money,”&nbs ..read more
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When copay assistance backfires on patients
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by Tribune News Service
2d ago
Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News In early 2019, Jennifer Hepworth and her husband were stunned by a large bill they unexpectedly received for their daughter’s prescription cystic fibrosis medication. Their payment had risen to $3,500 from the usual $30 for a month’s supply. That must be a mistake, she told the pharmacy. But it wasn’t. It turned out that the health insurance plan through her husband’s job had a new program in which it stopped applying any financial assistance they received from drugmakers to the family’s annual deductible. Insurers or employers can tap into funds provided ..read more
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