Jul 21 Study suggests that women with mild memory problems worsen faster than men By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of an effort to unravel why women are especially hard-hit by Alzheimer's. Continue reading
Jul 21 7.5 million Americans paid fine for having no health insurance in 2014 By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News About 7.5 million Americans paid an average penalty of $200 for not having health insurance in 2014 — the first year most Americans were required to have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the Internal Revenue Service says. Continue reading
Jul 21 More children are in poverty today than before the Great Recession By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger Today, 22 percent of children live in poverty, up from 18 percent in 2008. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch 8:06 Flying eye hospital delivers new outlooks to patients around the world By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 20 Is urgent care always a lower-cost alternative to the emergency room? By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn’t head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead. Continue reading
Jul 20 In my dad's final weeks, I was still in denial By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of cartoonist Jack Ohman's series "The Care Package," for PBS NewsHour. When editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman's father only had days left to live, he still wrote checks to pay his bills and… Continue reading
Jul 19 Higher-than-expected Medicaid enrollment numbers prompt state budget worries By Daniel Costa-Roberts A dozen states that chose to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have seen their enrollment numbers far outpace projections, raising budget concerns as the federal government gets set to reduce its funding for the expansions… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch 6:16 Here's what you should know about choosing the right surgeon By PBS News Hour A new report by ProPublica sheds light on the importance of choosing the right surgeon, especially when it comes to elective surgery. The non-profit news organization analyzed the complication rates of 17,000 surgeons nationwide and released its findings to the… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch 9:21 Advocates warn genital cutting may increase during summer months By PBS NewsHour Female genital mutilation is widely thought of as something affecting women in countries halfway around the world. But advocates in the U.S. say many women who have immigrated here may have been subjected to the painful procedure or could still… Continue watching
Jul 19 Happy birthday to the woman who revolutionized endocrinology By Dr. Howard Markel Rosalyn S. Yalow was a giant of medicine. A Nobel laureate and medical physicist, Yalow co-discovered the radioimmunoassay, an exquisitely sensitive means of using “radioactive tracers” to measure hormones in the bloodstream. Continue reading