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Repeal Ripples: Five Obamacare Exchange Chiefs Contemplate An Uncertain Future

February 1, 2017

Despite political peril, Obamacare business is brisk in California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Colorado.

Do Best-Selling Drugs That Calm Stomachs Damage Kidneys? The Answer’s Unclear.

By Sydney Lupkin and Pauline Bartolone May 17, 2017

With flawed systems for tracking the side effects of prescription drugs, a link between proton pump inhibitors and kidney disease suggested by research cannot be proven. Patients who swear by the drugs hope it won’t be.

Widespread Hype Gives False Hope To Many Cancer Patients

By Liz Szabo April 27, 2017

Doctors and drug developers have a stake in making cancer treatments seem better than they really are.

In Search Of A Vaccine To Vanquish The Plague

By Lydia Zuraw January 10, 2017

The scourge of the Middle Ages could still be pretty scary as a bioterrorism weapon, so scientists are trying to find a way to immunize people against it.

Kratom Gets Reprieve From Drug Enforcement Administration

By Lauren Silverman, KERA October 13, 2016

The agency has decided to leave kratom off its list of highly restricted drugs for now. The DEA is asking for public comment and help from the Food and Drug Administration in evaluating kratom.

Gross! Anti-Cig Stories Make For Powerful No Smoking Campaign

By Jocelyn Wiener May 11, 2016

But reaching Spanish speakers might take some extra effort.

Disease Outbreaks Prompt Vaccine Bill, Possible State Action at Preschool Level

by David Gorn, California Healthline Sacramento Bureau February 19, 2015

A bill in the California Legislature seeking to end the personal exemption for childhood immunizations may be followed by a bill calling for immunizations for preschoolers in the state.

The Bitter Truth: Brill’s ‘Bitter Pill’ Changed Nothing.

By Dan Diamond January 7, 2015

The landmark Time story that shook health care two years ago has been resurrected as a new best-selling book. But did author Steven Brill accurately diagnose the industry’s problems, and if so, why didn’t anyone follow his original prescription for a cure?

Another Arrow in the Quiver for Attempt To Reverse Medi-Cal Cut

by David Gorn, California Healthline Sacramento Bureau June 6, 2013

After a series of setbacks — legislative and legal — options have dwindled for provider groups trying to reverse a 10% Medi-Cal reimbursement cut. Attention has turned now toward getting the Legislature to include a reversal in the next budget proposal.

‘The Passage of Power’ and the Passage of Medicare

by Dan Diamond, California Healthline Contributing Editor May 2, 2012

A long-awaited biography of Lyndon Johnson goes inside White House strategy in the early 1960s. Does the battle to pass Medicare hold any lessons for today?

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