Assisted Living Facilities Pressed to Address Growing Needs of Older, Sicker Residents
By Judith Graham
Assisted living was meant to be a home-like setting where older adults could interact with other residents while receiving help with daily tasks such as bathing and dressing. But as the concept has become more popular, residents are now older and sicker than in the past, and a panel of experts is calling for more focus on their medical and mental health needs.
Daily Edition for Friday, December 2, 2022
Friday’s roundup covers covid stress on teen brains, cannabis, viral outbreaks, vaccine data, overdoses, health disparities, and more.
The Business of Clinical Trials Is Booming. Private Equity Has Taken Notice.
By Rachana Pradhan
Private equity-backed Headlands Research heralded its covid-19 vaccine trials as a chance to boost participation among diverse populations, then it shuttered multiple sites that conducted them.
Watch: The Politics of Health Care in California
California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart discussed the most pressing health care issues in California with the nonpartisan group Democracy Winters in mid-November, touching on a variety of issues, from the state’s effort to transform its Medicaid program to its plan to produce generic insulin.
Empresas de capital riesgo invierten en el negocio de los ensayos clínicos de medicamentos. ¿Cuál es el riesgo para los pacientes?
By Rachana Pradhan
Para lanzar un nuevo fármaco al mercado, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) exige a las farmacéuticas estudios exhaustivos para demostrar su seguridad y eficacia. Conseguir que un medicamento salga al mercado unos meses antes, y con menos gastos de lo habitual, puede traducirse en beneficios millonarios para el fabricante.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Medicaid Machinations
The lame-duck Congress has returned to Washington with a long health care to-do list and only a little time. Meanwhile, some of the states that have not yet expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act are rethinking those decisions. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Fred Clasen-Kelly, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature, about a mysterious mishap during minor surgery.
Daily Edition for Thursday, December 1, 2022
Thursday’s roundup covers inaccessible medical bills, suicide, HIV/AIDS, covid treatments, masking, respiratory illnesses, and more.
The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans
By Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht
Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by sending medical bills that blind and visually impaired people cannot read, a KHN investigation has found. By hindering the ability of blind Americans to know what they owe, some bills get sent to debt collections.
Addiction Treatment Proponents Urge Rural Clinicians to Pitch In by Prescribing Medication
By Tony Leys
The number of U.S. health care providers certified to prescribe buprenorphine more than doubled in the past four years, and treatment advocates hope to see that trend continue.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Wednesday’s roundup covers the fentanyl epidemic, flavored tobacco, misinformation on Twitter, covid, RSV, nursing homes, and more.
