Oct 12 WATCH: Trump signs executive order to boost lower-premium health plans By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Frustrated by health care failures in Congress, President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite some federal insurance rules as a beginning of renewed efforts to undermine "Obamacare," the program he's promised to kill. Continue reading
Oct 11 Why some doctors are questioning Trump's new birth control rules By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Trump administration's new birth control rule is raising questions among some doctors and researchers, who say it overlooks known benefits of contraception while selectively citing data that raise doubts about effectiveness and safety. Continue reading
Oct 10 How the people of Limerick are battling a spike in suicide By Larisa Epatko Limerick has double the suicide rate than the rest of Ireland. Here's how the community is fighting back. Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch 10:06 How one group of doctors drastically decreased opioid prescriptions By Cat Wise, Jason Kane With addictions and overdoses surging over the past two decades, recent CDC guidelines urge doctors to avoid or dramatically limit the use of legal painkillers. In Southern California, a group of Kaiser Permanente doctors has been helping chronic pain patients… Continue watching
Oct 09 How a brain gets hooked on opioids By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin Here is the neuroscience behind how opioids overtake the human brain. Continue reading
Oct 08 An outbreak waiting to happen: hepatitis A marches through San Diego's homeless community By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT A hepatitis A outbreak that has stricken 481 people in San Diego could get worse because of the challenges of dealing with the homeless population. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch 10:48 Ohio sues big pharma over increase in opioid-related deaths By Melanie Saltzman In May, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, citing the rising death toll from opioid overdoses in his state, sued five pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of playing down the risks of painkiller addiction. Ohio is the largest of 10 states that… Continue watching
Oct 07 Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities By Joan A Casey, Peter James, Rachel Morello-Forsch, The Conversation Nationwide, neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and proportions of black, Hispanic and Asian residents have higher noise levels than other neighborhoods. Continue reading
Oct 06 Trump weakens Obamacare's birth control mandate By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons. Continue reading
Oct 05 How treating opioids with more opioids has divided the recovery community By Elizabeth Flock In this Florida county, some believe medication is the only thing that can stop the opioids deaths. Others say a life on medication isn't a life at all. Continue reading