Bringing Medicaid behind bars has wide bipartisan support : Shots
When he was in prison, Lee Reed was in agonizing back pain. His doctors there told him he needed back surgery, but because he was so close to his release…
Bernie Sanders chairs Senate committee looking to fix the health worker shortage : Shots
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is chairing the Senate’s top wellness committee which is focused on fixing the U.S. health treatment worker shortage. J. Scott Applewhite/AP disguise caption toggle caption J.…
How the Medicare political wars could hurt seniors : Shots
Past week in Florida, at the University of Tampa, President Joe Biden promised to defend and bolster Social Protection and Medicare, as nicely as decreased wellbeing treatment expenditures. Mandel Ngan/AFP…
Johns Hopkins University to shut down its COVID tracker : Shots
The COVID-19 dashboard produced by the Johns Hopkins Center for Units Science and Engineering is exhibited in the course of a briefing on Capitol Hill in early March 2020, when…
Long COVID diagnosis puts extra strain on family caregivers : Shots
Louise Salant (right), 72, and her aunt Eileen Salant (center), 86, both got very sick with COVID-19 in 2020. And as Eileen developed long COVID symptoms, so too did Louise,…
U.S. winter COVID surge is mild and fading fast : Shots
Immunity Us citizens acquired by means of vaccination or through prior infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus may well account for the lighter than predicted COVID surge in the U.S. this…