September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – The lack of access can increase the risk of infections, depression and missing school and social activities. A third of teens and young adults in the U.S. can’t afford or otherwise access menstrual products, according to new … Read More
September 27, 2024
(NBC News) – Black and Latino people use 10% to 40% fewer prescription drugs because of high costs, according to a report by Patients for Affordable Drugs. Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people … Read More
September 27, 2024
(New York Times) – The F.B.I. is also investigating the large chain of psychiatric hospitals for holding patients longer than what is medically necessary. Acadia Healthcare, one of the country’s largest for-profit chains of psychiatric hospitals, has agreed to pay … Read More
September 26, 2024
(ProPublica) – Officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. Some people who believe they were wrongly removed are desperately trying to get back on the state and federally … Read More
September 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – A federal judge is allowing more than 8,000 Catholic employers nationwide to reject government regulations that protect workers seeking abortions and fertility care. In a sharply worded order, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor, of Bismarck, North Dakota, … Read More
September 24, 2024
(Axios) – Doctors of color may be bearing a disproportionate burden caring for patients most in need, with Black and Latino physicians far likelier to accept Medicaid than their white peers, new research shows. Why it matters: The findings provide … Read More
September 24, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 10, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Makers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are offering discounts to encourage more insurance coverage of the medicines A price battle has broken out in the hot market for weight-loss drugs. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the … Read More
September 20, 2024
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 24, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 19, 2024
(Axios) – The United States has one of the most inefficient health care systems among high-income countries, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. Why it matters: Administrative hurdles like requirements that insurers sign off on care before … Read More
September 19, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 9, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 18, 2024
(Axios) – Private equity’s expanding role in billing, tracking and collecting payments for health care is exacerbating America’s medical debt problem, a new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project concludes. Why it matters: PE-owned “end-to-end” service providers squeeze consumers … Read More
September 18, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 16, 2024
(Axios) – Patients are increasingly joining online communities to learn how to make pirated versions of abortion pills, GLP-1s and other prescription drugs and medical treatments. Why it matters: It’s an outgrowth of frustration with high prices and bottlenecks in … Read More
September 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans were unknowingly signed up for government-subsidized health insurance, often lured by social-media ads falsely promising cash for daily expenses, according to insurance agents, court documents and federal officials. Insurance agents … Read More
September 12, 2024
(Axios) – Improved safety practices led 200,000 more patients to survive hospitalization in 2023 and 2024 than they would have four years earlier, per a new analysis on patient safety from the American Hospital Association and Vizient. Why it matters: … Read More
September 12, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 11, 2024
(ProPublica) – Ravi didn’t know it, but he, like millions of Americans, was trapped in a “ghost network.” As some of those people have discovered, the providers listed in an insurer’s network have either retired or died. Many other providers … Read More
September 11, 2024
(Axios) – A class-action complaint claims Aetna violated federal non-discrimination law by denying coverage of certain gender-affirming surgeries. Why it matters: The lawsuit filed Tuesday cites civil rights protections in the Affordable Care Act that are currently being challenged by … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Axios) – The personal information of nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries may have been exposed in a data breach last year, when an unauthorized third party accessed a file transfer system used to handle medical claims. (Read More)
September 9, 2024
(The Telegraph via MSN) – Are you too busy to go to the doctor’s, or just don’t see it as a priority? As of next year, thousands of people will no longer have an excuse: the doctor’s will be coming … Read More
September 6, 2024
(KFF Health News) – When the Indian Health Service can’t provide medical care to Native Americans, the federal agency can refer them elsewhere. But each year, it rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund those appointments, forcing patients to … Read More
September 5, 2024
(New York Times) – Many doctors say it is too dangerous to perform the common surgeries on people with high body mass indexes, but patients say they are facing discrimination. While the science of body mass index is frequently criticized, … Read More
September 3, 2024
(Axios) – The U.S. spends more on health care than almost anywhere else. But increasingly patients are getting less in return, and enduring long waits to get not as much face-time with their clinician. Why it matters: Shrinkflation is hitting … Read More
September 3, 2024
(NPR) – A third of Americans 65 and older will need a year of nursing home care in their lifetime, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. A semiprivate room today can cost some $8,700 per month — … Read More
