News FDA Announces Recall of Heart Pumps Linked to Deaths and Injuries Greg Hartmann Apr 16, 2024 A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious…
News Why Opioid Settlement Money Is Paying County Employees’ Salaries Greg Hartmann Apr 16, 2024 More than $4.3 billion in opioid settlement money has landed in the hands of city, county and state officials to date —…
News Conservative Justices Stir Trouble for Republican Politicians on Abortion Greg Hartmann Apr 16, 2024 Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last…
News California Health Workers May Face Rude Awakening With $25 Minimum Wage Law Greg Hartmann Apr 16, 2024 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly a half-million health workers who stand to benefit from California’s nation-leading $25…
News Más condados prohíben el fluoruro en el agua potable. Cómo afecta a la… Greg Hartmann Apr 15, 2024 Melba Newsome Regina Barrett, una jubilada de 69 años que vive en Monroe, una pequeña ciudad de Carolina del Norte, al sureste…
News Casi 1 de cada 4 adultos desafiliados de Medicaid siguen sin seguro, indica… Greg Hartmann Apr 15, 2024 Casi una cuarta parte de los adultos que fueron dados de baja de Medicaid el año pasado dicen que ahora no tienen…
News Rural Americans Are Way More Likely To Die Young. Why? Greg Hartmann Apr 15, 2024 Three words are commonly repeated to describe rural America and its residents: older, sicker and poorer. Obviously,…
News Swap Funds or Add Services? Use of Opioid Settlement Cash Sparks Strong… Greg Hartmann Apr 15, 2024 State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has…
News California Fails to Adequately Help Blind and Deaf Prisoners, US Judge… Greg Hartmann Apr 12, 2024 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thirty years after prisoners with disabilities sued the state of California and 25 years after a…
News As Bans Spread, Fluoride in Drinking Water Divides Communities Across the… Greg Hartmann Apr 12, 2024 MONROE, N.C. — Regina Barrett, a 69-year-old retiree who lives in this small North Carolina city southeast of Charlotte,…