Health Apr 30 Critical study of Gilead drug shows coronavirus patients responding to treatment, NIH says By Matthew Herper, Adam Feuerstein, STAT News
Health Dec 04 Deaths during opioid-driven hospital stays have quadrupled The rate of hospitalization among white patients also doubled between 2007 and 2013 -- the “largest and fastest-growing share of hospitalizations” in recent years, according to the study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs. By Laura Santhanam
Health Oct 04 Twitter chat: Americans are pessimistic about the opioid crisis. What does that mean for a solution? The PBS NewsHour will host a Twitter chat on the opioid crisis at 1 p.m. ET Oct. 5. By Lora Strum
Health Oct 03 Poll: Most Americans think Trump hasn’t done enough to fix opioid crisis Only 2 percent of adults nationwide said the country’s opioid problem improved over the last year. By Laura Santhanam
Health Oct 02 Column: How to talk to your kids about opioids Chances are good that even young teenagers will have heard about opioids and overdose deaths at some point. But Margie Skeer from Tufts University warns that pretending that opioid use is not a problem – or thinking that a child… By Margie Skeer, Tufts University
Jun 16 WATCH: Trump’s opioid commission launches new look at health crisis By Laura Santhanam https://youtu.be/dzg-WhYGSe4 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he never felt uncomfortable telling people about his mother’s lung cancer after she smoked cigarettes for decades. But he wonders if he would have been as open if she instead consumed heroin instead… Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch 7:28 Why a promising heroin addiction treatment is unavailable in many states By PBS News Hour More than 90 percent of heroin users who detox cold turkey will relapse, but there’s a dispute over prescribing drugs to help addicts get clean and keep them from deadly overdoses. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Ryan Grim of The Huffington… Continue watching
Jul 29 $1,000 Sovaldi now hepatitis treatment of choice By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The price is sky-high, but so is demand. A new $1,000-per-pill drug has become the treatment of choice for Americans with hepatitis C, a liver-wasting disease that affects more than 3 million. Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Pinpointing genetic links to schizophrenia may open doors to better treatment By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch New rules set standard to ensure mental health care coverage parity New rules set standard to ensure mental health care coverage parity… Continue watching