The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

Veterans, beware of scammers promising help to get toxic exposure benefits

Hines VA Hospital has heard reports that Chicago-area veterans are among those being targeted by scammers offering to help process or submit PACT Act claims on a veteran’s behalf.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 13, 2022

Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

For California's indigenous farmworker population, healthcare that respects their traditions is vital.

Capital & Main · Dec 13, 2022

Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding

Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana's 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2022

California official attacked with racial slur at meeting where racism is declared public health crisis

Audience member yelled ‘go back to China’ at Orange County Health Care Agency Director Clayton Chau

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022

The pandemic gave digital health companies a historic opportunity to rebuild health care. We can’t afford to squander it

Digital health startups often overstate the benefits of their solutions. No wonder their valuations dropped in 2022, writes Yonatan Adiri.

Fortune · Dec 12, 2022

NHS ‘highly dependent’ on substandard private beds for children’s mental health care

Exclusive: More than one third of private children’s mental health beds are substandard, CQC data shows

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022

Editorial: China Needs to Build Up Medical Capacity to Tackle Covid

With the latest round of easing, authorities face the challenge of preventing shortages and stabilizing economic growth, while also optimizing virus control measures

Caixin Global · Dec 12, 2022

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

WEKU · Dec 12, 2022

With respiratory illnesses on the rise in Chicago, health care providers warn children’s medications may be hard to find

“Kids can’t cope with pain like adults,” said Gwen Smith, a mom of three from Chicago’s North Side. “It’d be like torture, in a way, to have to witness your child suffering if your local pharmacy doesn’t have what you need.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 11, 2022

Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

Tribune News Service · Dec 11, 2022