News California Bans Controversial ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis Greg Hartmann Oct 12, 2023 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the…
News ‘I’m So Burned Out’: Fighting to See a Specialist Amplified Pain for… Greg Hartmann Oct 12, 2023 SAN JACINTO, Calif. — Teresa Johnson can’t escape the pain. It’s as if she’s getting pierced by needles all over her…
News House Panel to Hold Hearing on Erroneous Social Security Payments Greg Hartmann Oct 12, 2023 David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group A House of Representatives panel has scheduled a hearing for next week on…
News Narcan, Now Available Without a Prescription, Can Still Be Hard to Get Greg Hartmann Oct 11, 2023 Last month, drugstores and pharmacies nationwide began stocking and selling the country’s first over-the-counter version…
News Feds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment… Greg Hartmann Oct 11, 2023 Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife…
News Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the… Greg Hartmann Oct 10, 2023 Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades — perhaps…
News Trump Misplaced Blame When He Said Drug Shortages Were Biden’s Fault Greg Hartmann Oct 6, 2023 Michelle Andrews “Under ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden, there has been a catastrophic increase in shortages of essential medicines.”…
News Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why… Greg Hartmann Oct 6, 2023 When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN…
News Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare… Greg Hartmann Oct 5, 2023 Susan Jaffe Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising…
News Social Security Chief Orders Broad Review of Benefit Overpayments Greg Hartmann Oct 5, 2023 The federal agency that oversees Social Security announced Wednesday that it will review the way it handles…