Health

CBO says Children's Health Insurance Program would cost $800 million for five years

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Financing for the program expired last fall. Congress has temporarily extended its funding, but growing numbers of states have moved closer to exhausting their money.

The first effective drugs for preventing migraine may be available soon

By Katie A. Lloyd, The Conversation

2018 looks set to be the year we finally get effective treatments for migraine.

Music helps people in nursing home once considered unreachable

By PBS News Hour

A California nursing home is using music therapy with residents suffering from dementia. In collaboration with inewsource news service in San Diego, Joanne Faryon reports on how music is reaching those once considered unreachable.

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Why more sleep could help kids do better in school and life

By PBS News Hour

Early school start times make kids feel jetlagged every day, says behavioral and social scientist Wendy Troxel. She shares her humble opinion on why it’s time to change kids’ morning routines.

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The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner

By Christen A. Smith, The Conversation

An anthropologist, who studies the impact of police violence on black communities, examines the ways that police violence kills black women slowly through trauma, pain and loss.

CDC plans session on preparing for a nuclear detonation

By Helen Branswell, STAT

With this week’s bellicose boasting about who has the bigger red button on his desk, an alert Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention felt more than a bit on the nose.

Trump administration proposes interstate sale of health insurance

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The new rule would make it easier for groups, or associations, to sponsor health plans that don't have to meet all consumer protection and benefit requirements of the Obama law. Those requirements improve coverage, but also raise premiums.

Analysis: The devastating stigma of fistula and the surgery that can help

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

Fistula, once a common occurrence in the United States, continues to be an unfortunate reality for many of the world’s poorest women around the world.

This new treatment could make your next trip to the dentist more bearable

By Cat Wise

A new method of treating tooth decay using silver nitrate may make the pain, and expense, of traditional treatments obsolete. Special correspondent Cat Wise has the story.

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