Jun 08 How the back pain industry is taking patients for an unhealthy ride By Danielle Venton and Jon Brooks, KQED Future of You Searching for solutions to back pain can lead sufferers into an expensive and sometimes dangerous maze of ineffectual treatments, procedures and pills, journalist and investigative reporter Cathryn Jakobson Ramin found. Continue reading
Jun 08 If the individual health insurance market withers, who would revive it? By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News In his high-stakes strategy to overhaul the federal health law, President Donald Trump is threatening to upend the individual health insurance market with several key policies. But if the market actually breaks, could anyone put it back together again?… Continue reading
Jun 08 Even moderate drinking may expedite brain decline By Ike Swetlitz, STAT Drinking just a handful of beers a week is associated with long-term changes to a person’s brain, a new study finds — although the functional meaning of these changes is unclear. Continue reading
Jun 07 Nevada bill would require insulin makers to post profits By Emily Kopp, Kaiser Health News The cost of insulin medications has steadily risen over the past decade by nearly 300 percent. Continue reading
Jun 06 Twitter Chat: How to change the conversation about living with disabilities By Lora Strum “I have a choice everyday I wake up, I can look at myself as the poor guy with a disability or I can go out and inspire people,” Ryan Hudson-Peralta said. Continue reading
Jun 06 Hospitals now tap lawyers to fulfill patients’ legal needs By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News As health care systems continue to shift toward becoming comprehensive medical homes for patients, health care providers are increasingly incorporating lawyers into the team of professionals who are on hand to help people at no additional charge to patients. Continue reading
Jun 05 Think you’re too old for a bucket list? These 90-somethings disagree By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News An assisted living facility in New York is helping their residents accomplish bucket list items like flying a plane and completing college. Continue reading
Jun 04 A taxpayer gamble on medical tourism: Louisiana subsidizes proton therapy to boost its economy By Max Blau, STAT Proton therapy only works for specific types of cancer, but Louisiana officials are hopeful their centers will make the state a medical tourism destination. Continue reading
Jun 03 As government-funded cancer research sags, scientists fear U.S. is ‘losing its edge’ By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Less and less of the research presented at a prominent cancer conference is supported by the National Institutes of Health, a development that some of the country’s top scientists see as a worrisome trend. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch 3:33 This is what Alzheimer’s looks like: ‘It looks like me’ By PBS News Hour What does it feel like to be diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease? Pam Montana and Chris Hannafan offer their Brief but Spectacular takes on what it means to live with the disease and how their worlds have changed. Continue watching