Health

Skin cancer from tanning beds costs U.S. $343 million per year

By Megan Thielking, STAT

Indoor tanning has long been tied to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the US.

AP fact check: Trump's overly downbeat view of health law

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump said in his speech to Congress that he's work with lawmakers to save the U.S. from "this imploding Obamacare disaster." Here's how that claim stacks up with the facts.

In the war on heroin, Baltimore drug programs face an uncertain future

By Laura Santhanam

In 2015, Baltimore wrote a city-wide prescription for a heroin antidote. Two years later, as the city tries to expand access to addiction treatment, will the White House support its mission?…

Hospitals worry an ACA repeal could harm their financial health

By PBS News Hour

Efforts by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act are underway, unnerving to some hospital executives who see uncertainty for their bottom line. If large numbers of people lose their insurance under a replacement, hospital…

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Column: How Mardi Gras beads get to the French Quarter

By David Redmon for The Conversation

A U.K. criminologist tells the dark story behind the production and use of Mardi Gras beads.

Drowning in a 'high-risk insurance pool' — at $18,000 a year

By Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio

One way to lower premiums: high-risk insurance pools for people with health problems. But critics say even successful high-risk pools were very expensive.

5 takeaways from the leaked Republican bill to repeal Obamacare

By Dylan Scott, STAT

A formal draft of the House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act leaked out on Friday.

Congress returns, with health care, Supreme Court on agenda

By Erica Werner, Associated Press

Congress returns to Washington this week to confront dramatic decisions on health care and the Supreme Court that may help determine the course of Donald Trump's presidency.

Report warns of state money fallout from health law repeal

By Ben Nuckols and Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar, Associated Press

A sobering report to governors warns that federal spending cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten many people with the loss of insurance coverage.

Immigrants, fearing Trump's deportation policies, avoid doctor visits

By Ike Swetlitz, STAT

As President Trump continues to step up immigration enforcement, medical centers say the changes are indeed keeping immigrants out of hospitals and clinics.