Health Oct 17 You can now buy lower-cost hearing aids over the counter. Here’s how The new options are intended for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss — a market of tens of millions of people, many of whom have until now avoided getting help because aids were so expensive.
Health Sep 02 Medicaid vaccination rates founder as states struggle to immunize their poorest residents Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.
Health Jun 30 Desperate for home care, seniors often wait months with workers in short supply A shortage of nursing assistants and home aides caused by low pay and lack of benefits is making it difficult for seniors to find help.
Health Nov 19 The hidden costs of ‘free’ flu shots Flu shots are relatively cheap compared with most health services, but considering the tens of millions of Americans who get vaccinated each year, those prices add up.
Health Jan 13 Kentucky is first state granted approval for Medicaid work requirements Thousands of poor adults in Kentucky will have to find jobs and pay monthly premiums to retain their Medicaid coverage as a result of drastic changes to the state’s health insurance program approved Friday by the Trump administration.
Health Jul 29 Even without Congress, Trump can still cut Medicaid enrollment The Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid.
Health Feb 05 Indiana, Pence’s home state, seeks federal OK to keep Medicaid expansion As Congress weighs repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence seeks to keep its Medicaid expansion under the federal health law.
Nation Nov 28 Pence expanded Medicaid coverage as governor, now threatens to take away Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was one of 10 Republican governors to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, but as President-elect Donald Trump’s running mate, Pence is now calling for the health law’s repeal and replacement.
Health Jul 23 How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus.
Health Jun 16 Florida’s mosquito control forces mobilize against Zika threat Local mosquito control authorities are preparing a spray-and-trap offensive to halt Zika-carrying mosquitos in damp breeding grounds.