A young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own …
Health
-
-
Health
Humanitarian crises abound. Why is the U.N. asking for less aid money than last year?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“This is the first time that this has happened in recent years,” said Martin Griffiths of the United Nations. about the reduced ask. Why in a time of greater need …
-
Health
How Alabama’s ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ could impact IVF : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe decision stems from a case brought by three couples that had pursued in vitro fertilization treatment. Sang Tan/AP hide caption toggle caption Sang Tan/AP The decision stems from a …
-
Health
Two Bayer drugs are headed to Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe online pharmacy of entrepreneur Mark Cuban is adding two brand new Bayer drugs to its disruptor model, which relies on a radical transparency compared to the rest of the …
-
Health
I grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia. Let’s not glamorize addiction â again : Shots
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesGuillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose. The …
-
Drug consumers line up outside of the SAOM van for a methadone cocktail and supplies in the city center of Porto, Portugal last spring. There are very few overdose deaths …
-
Health
A drug shortage makes it harder to treat a surge in syphilis cases
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThere’s been an alarming surge nationwide in syphilis cases. As cases increase, providers are having to ration penicillin shots, which are in short supply.
-
Health
A South Carolina woman is challenging the state’s sixth-week abortion ban : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA woman unable to schedule an abortion before her sixth week of pregnancy in her home state of South Carolina is suing — the latest challenge to the state’s so-called …
-
Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs online pharmacy is adding the oral contraceptive Yaz from Bayer to its list of discounted medicines. studiostockart/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption studiostockart/Getty Images Mark …
-
Health
CDC data shows the HPV vaccine is not reaching many young people
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFor years, a cancer-preventing vaccine reached vulnerable teens at rates that exceeded the baseline. Since the pandemic, researchers have seen a worrying drop in coverage among Medicaid recipients.