Jul 24 Montana’s ‘pain refugees’ leave the state to get prescribed opioids By Corin Cates-Carney, Montana Public Radio On a recent night, three Montana residents, who call themselves pain refugees, boarded an airplane from Missoula to Los Angeles. Continue reading
Jul 23 How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus. Continue reading
Jul 22 When black death goes viral, it can trigger PTSD-like trauma By Kenya Downs “We’re witnessing mentally and emotionally traumatizing videos and pictures. It’s enough, it’s just enough. It’s just so overwhelming all the time." - April Reign, managing editor for Broadway Black… Continue reading
Jul 22 Diabetes linked to risk of mental health hospitalization in young adults By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Young people with diabetes were four times more likely to be hospitalized for mental health or substance use treatment in 2014 than were young adults without the disease, according to a recent study. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 9:49 How South Africa, the nation hardest-hit by HIV, plans to ‘end AIDS’ By William Brangham, Jason Kane Nearly one in five people infected with HIV globally lives in South Africa, and only half of those individuals are on treatment. But the nation has made major strides against the virus in recent years and now is aggressively moving… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch 10:15 Why a Kenyan island may teach the world how to beat AIDS By William Brangham, Jason Kane A massive HIV test-and-treat study is underway in Kenya and Uganda. Migratory men in the fishing industry there have been hit especially hard, and researchers are trying creative ways to encourage them to get tested. William Brangham reports from Mfangano… Continue watching
Jul 20 What you need to know about norovirus, and why it’s dreaded By Andrew Joseph, STAT Suspected cases of norovirus, which involve a dozen Republican staffers in the Cleveland area for the Republican National Convention, have caused alarm. Continue reading
Jul 19 Could midwives improve healthcare access for expectant mothers? By Michael Ollove, Stateline By not allowing midwives to lawfully perform out-of-hospital births, advocates say, states like Alabama are not just hampering their ability to practice their profession. They are depriving expectant mothers who may not have easy access to obstetric care in a… Continue reading
Jul 18 Fracking wells increase rate of asthma attacks in nearby residents, study finds By News Desk Natural gas wells created by fracking in Pennsylvania may elevate the number of asthma attacks for nearby asthma patients, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Continue reading
Jul 18 How vaginal bacteria could be stoking HIV cases and blocking prevention By Heather Boerner At the International AIDS Conference in Durban today, researchers at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) will unveil startling new evidence of a bacterial culprit that could be responsible for as many as two… Continue reading