All posts tagged "Public Health"
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732LifestyleHow Rival Opioid Makers Sought To Cash In On Alarm Over OxyContin’s Dangers
Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News As Purdue Pharma confronted mounting criticism over deaths linked to OxyContin, rival drugmakers noticed an opportunity to...
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774LifestyleTo Tame Prescription Prices, HHS Dips A Toe Into Drug Importation Stream
Use Our Content This story will be republished free of charge (details). It got here as one thing of a shock when...
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672LifestylePatients With Chronic Pain Feel Caught In An Opioid-Prescribing Debate
It began with a rolled ankle throughout a routine Army coaching train. Shannon Hubbard by no means imagined it was the prologue...
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751LifestyleDrug Trade Group Quietly Spends ‘Dark Money’ To Sway Policy And Voters
In 2010, earlier than the Affordable Care Act was handed by Congress, the pharmaceutical business’s high lobbying group was a really public...
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746LifestyleSome Doctors, Patients Balk At Medicare’s ‘Flat Fee’ Payment Proposal
This story is a part of a partnership that features WBUR, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story will be republished totally...
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657LifestylePodcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Let’s Talk Politics
It appears more and more possible that well being care politics will play an vital function within the midterm elections come November....
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807LifestyleFor Many College Students, Hunger Can ‘Make It Hard To Focus In Class’
As college students enter school this fall, many will starvation for greater than information. Up to half of school college students report that...
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720LifestyleMissed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospice Lacks Oversight
Elderly sufferers spent over two weeks in uncontrolled ache or respiratory misery. Acute care was uncommon on weekends. And recruiters went door...
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726Lifestyle1,400 Nursing Homes Get Lower Medicare Ratings Because Of Staffing Concerns
Medicare has lowered its star scores for staffing ranges in 1 in 11 of the nation’s nursing houses — nearly 1,400 of...
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662LifestyleMining A New Data Set To Pinpoint Critical Staffing Issues In Skilled Nursing Facilities
Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just isn’t identified for linguistic playfulness. Nonetheless, a minimum of...