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Federal Ban on Methadone Vans Seen as Barrier to Treatment

From California to Vermont, mobile methadone vans have served people with opioid addiction in rural towns and underserved inner-city neighborhoods for…

Michael Bolla and Sally Singer lift Leon Anders using a ceiling lift and sling at the VA Hospital in Loma Linda, Calif. The VA system is among a very small number of hospitals that have installed equipment and provided proper training so their nursing staff can avoid physically lifting and moving patients themselves.

Despite High Rates Of Nursing Injuries, Government Regulators Take Little Action

While industry and government officials agree something needs to be done to prevent the tens of thousands of debilitating injuries among nursing staff, nobody can agree how to enforce it.

Medicare will begin historic negotiations with pharma to reduce drug prices. It's complicated

What’s a fair price to pay for prescription drugs? Medicare will soon face this and other tough questions when it begins historic price negotiations with drugmakers.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers at the scene of the death of Herman Whitfield III said they believed he was experiencing “excited delirium” moments before he died. But medical experts say the previously accepted, and now debunked, diagnosis is rooted in racist stereotypes and often used by law enforcement to justify in-custody deaths.

Police use ‘excited delirium’ to explain in-custody deaths. It’s a debunked diagnosis

The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, and some argue it’s used by police to avoid accountability and justify excessive force.

Charlie Stewart lost most of his leg to a wound that turned gangrenous during a 2013 hospital stay.

How N.Y.'s Biggest For-Profit Nursing Home Group Flourishes Despite a Record of Patient Harm

Charlie Stewart was looking forward to getting out of the nursing home in time for his 60th birthday. On his planned release day, in late 2012, the Long…

Carmen Smith now gets the insulin she needs via her doctor's prescription. When she lacked health insurance, buying a version of the medicine over the counter was cheaper, she says. But it was hard to get the dose right.

You Can Buy Insulin Without A Prescription, But Should You?

Versions sold over the counter are based on older formulas and make tight control of blood sugar harder. But they're cheaper and might save a patient with diabetes whose alternative is to go without.

Rock And Enroll: Open Enrollment Questions, Answered

Nov. 1 marks the first day of 2018 open enrollment, the period in which people can sign up for insurance through healthcare.gov. The Affordable Care Act…

Courtney Turner attends a physical therapy session at Ranken Jordan with therapist Angela McCullough.

St. Louis Hospital Ditches The Bed To Help Kids Recover Faster

The opening bars of Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” echo through a bustling therapy gym as 13-year-old Courtney Turner practices her physical therapy…

Flurry of Federal and State Probes Target Insulin Drugmakers and Pharma Middlemen

With the price of a crucial diabetes drug skyrocketing, at least five states and a federal prosecutor are demanding information from insulin manufacturers…

The examining rooms in the Fort Worth clinic do not meet the emergency-room-like standards of the Texas abortion law known as HB 2. It would cost more than $1 million to upgrade this facility, and the clinic's operators say it would be forced to close.

Supreme Court Tests Texas' New Restrictions On Abortion

At issue is whether a Texas law requiring clinics to meet surgical-center standards is aimed at safeguarding women's health or unconstitutionally limiting a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.

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