Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt
Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues. Long after he took a position at…
California’s Ambitious Medicaid Experiment Gets Tripped Up in Implementation
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly two years into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $12 billion experiment to transform California’s Medicaid program into a social services provider for the state’s most vulnerable residents, the institutions tasked with providing the new services aren’t effectively doing so, according to a survey released Tuesday. As part of the ambitious five-year initiative, called…
What is the hospital funding agreement politicians are talking about today?
National Cabinet meets today to discuss three big issues in Commonwealth-state financial relations: GST allocation, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding, and a Commonwealth government proposal to kick-start negotiations on a new National Health Reform Agreement, to take effect in July 2025. So what is the reform agreement? What are the chances it could result…
Watch and Listen: Opioid Settlement Case Triggers Protests Outside the High Court
By Aneri Pattani December 5, 2023 Article HTML Aneri Pattani The Supreme Court heard a case this week about who could claim bankruptcy protection from civil lawsuits. The case stems from the opioid epidemic and lawsuits brought by state and local governments against the companies that made, sold, or distributed prescription painkillers — in this…
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The Importance of Understanding Your Family History of Breast Cancer
NARRATOR: Understanding your family history of cancer is important for understanding your own risk. About 5 to 10 breast cancers out of 100 are because of a single gene and may run in your family. We get one set of genes from each of our parents. These genes are like instructions, telling our bodies how…
Desperate Families Search for Affordable Home Care
It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help. He spends nearly every hour of every day anxiously overseeing her care at their home on the Isle of Palms, a barrier island near Charleston,…
Can brisk walking make you live longer? – Zoë Harcombe
Executive summary * This week’s paper uses population study data, but it wasn’t focused on nutrition. It was about self-reported walking pace (SRWP). * It involved nearly 400,000 people who self-reported their walking pace as slow, average or brisk. The study looked at the relationship between this SRWP and deaths over the following 12-13 years….
Colorado Says Drug Industry Blocked Its Canada Dreams – And Biden Hasn’t Helped
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Colorado’s leaders had grand plans to import cheaper medicines from Canada, after the Trump administration issued rules in 2020 allowing states to try it. But officials in Denver say they’ve been stymied by opposition from drugmakers — as well as the Biden administration’s inaction on the policy. That’s according to…
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Can ketogenic diet offer an effective alternative to antiseizure medication in infants with drug-resistant epilepsy?
In a recent study published in The Lancet Neurology, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of ketogenic diets compared to anti-seizure medications in lowering seizure frequency among newborns with drug-resistant epilepsy. Study: Classic ketogenic diet versus further antiseizure medicine in infants with drug-resistant epilepsy (KIWE): a UK, multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial. Image Credit: SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com Background Epilepsy is commonly…
