Nov 05 Voters provide mixed messages on health ballot measures By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News The Affordable Care Act wasn’t directly on the ballot in any state, but voters did decide a host of health-related issues in Tuesday’s elections. And there was no clear theme to what won and lost. Continue reading
Nov 05 Some gubernatorial wins make Medicaid expansion unlikely By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Tuesday’s re-election of Republican governors in closely contested races in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Maine and Kansas dims the chances of Medicaid expansion in those states. Continue reading
Nov 03 Right-to-die advocate Brittany Maynard ends life 'in the arms of her loved ones' By Tik Root On Saturday, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard took her own life. The move was not unexpected -- Maynard suffered from terminal brain cancer and had publicly stated that she planned to end her life on Nov. 1, but following through on the… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch Go inside a U.S. hospital preparing for more Ebola cases By PBS News Hour In a special ward of Mount Sinai in Manhattan, doctors, nurses and security are prepping at top speed for a dreaded scenario: someone with Ebola walking through their doors. The NewsHour’s Megan Thompson reports from one of eight hospitals in… Continue watching
Oct 31 Medicare paid for drugs after patients had died, report finds By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Call it drugs for the departed: Medicare's prescription program kept paying for costly medications even after patients were dead. The problem was traced back to a head-scratching bureaucratic rule that's now getting a second look. Continue reading
Oct 31 Soldiers and civilians face different Ebola protocols By Jim Kuhnhenn, Robert Burns, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. soldier returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa would have to spend 21 days being monitored, isolated in a military facility away from family and the broader population. A returning civilian doctor or nurse… Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch Doctors face tough treatment choices in the midst of the Ebola crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 30 How to help Ebola relief efforts By Larisa Epatko This year’s Ebola outbreak is the worst of its kind with more than 13,000 confirmed or suspected infections and nearly 5,000 deaths. Here's how you can help. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch News Wrap: WHO reports Ebola deaths may be slowing By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, the World Health Organization reported that Ebola fatalities remain at just under 5,000, though the total number of cases now top 13,700. Also, an American nurse who returned recently from Sierra Leone vowed to challenge… Continue watching
Oct 29 California orders 21-day quarantine on travelers from Ebola-afflicted countries By Joshua Barajas Passengers who arrive in California from an Ebola-stricken West African country and have had contact with an infected patient will face a 21-day quarantine, state health officials said Wednesday. Continue reading