Medicaid ‘unwinding’ breeds chaos in states
Phil Galewitz, Katheryn Houghton, Brett Kelman, Samantha Liss | (TNS) KFF Health News More than two dozen people lined up outside a state public assistance office in Montana before it …
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Why Hawaii became a hotbed of legal activism to protect the climate
Jennifer Hijazi | Bloomberg News (TNS) When it comes to mitigating climate change, “yesterday’s good enough has become today’s unacceptable.” That was what judges on Hawaii’s Supreme Court ruled earlier …
GOP states embrace Uber, Lyft to take low-income patients to medical appointments – The Mercury News
Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS) This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments. …
Researchers want immune cells to find cancer and report back – The Mercury News
Our immune cells are constantly circulating through our bodies, killing off cancer cells before they grow into something worrisome. Now a consortium, including Yale University, underwritten by Facebook founder Mark …
Keep track of your medical history
Leslie Dengler wants to get her annual mammogram but she doesn’t have access to her previous images to compare the results. “I have a pre-existing cyst that seems like nothing, …
When that supposedly free annual physical generates a bill – The Mercury News
Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News Christine Rogers of Wake Forest, North Carolina, didn’t hesitate when she was asked to fill out a routine mental health questionnaire during a …
‘Like a forest without trees’
Adriana Pérez | Chicago Tribune Peering over the edge of research vessel Coral Reef II as it sailed through the Florida Keys, Shedd Aquarium postdoctoral fellow Shayle Matsuda saw white. Matsuda and a group of …
Restaurant owners are fed up with reservation-hoarding bots
Kat Odell | (TNS) Bloomberg News To score a table at Don Angie, the Italian-American hotspot in New York’s West Village, the official course of action is to log on …
Politicians love to cite crime data. It’s often wrong – The Mercury News
Amanda Hernández | Stateline.org (TNS) When Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign in May, he proudly told the nation that Florida’s crime rate in 2021 had reached …
Getting a second opinion can help ward off misdiagnosis – The Mercury News
By John Rossheim | NerdWallet Why spend the time and expense to get a second opinion if your doctor recommends surgery or they diagnose a serious disease? After all, you’ve …