Health & Safety

Some GOP lawmakers in the South may be open to expanding Medicaid coverage

5:08am February 21, 2024

by Sam Gringlas

More Southern states are talking about expanding Medicaid to cover low-income residents. They've resisted the option for a decade, but are now running into competition for healthy workers.

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More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help?

5:09pm February 20, 2024

by Martha Bebinger

The surge in overdose deaths among teens is opening a new path to treatment: pediatricians. A doctor in Massachusetts shows how it works with a 17-year-old patient.

Over two dozen abortion-rights supporters attend a rally outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, S.C., on Aug. 23, 2023. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled to uphold a law banning most abortions except those in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.

'Something needs to change.' Woman denied abortion in South Carolina challenges ban

4:43pm February 20, 2024

by Victoria Hansen

The state law has been interpreted as banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood argues the ban is vague and shouldn't apply until at least three weeks later in pregnancy.

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A drug shortage makes it harder to treat a surge in syphilis cases

5:09am February 20, 2024

by Catherine Sweeney

There's been an alarming surge nationwide in syphilis cases. As cases increase, providers are having to ration penicillin shots, which are in short supply.

Guillermo 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.

In Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, heroin is far from 'chic'

5:00am February 20, 2024

by Guillermo A. Santos

A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about what the drugs did to his dad. So why are peers trying to look like emaciated people with addiction?

Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs online pharmacy is adding the oral contraceptive Yaz from Bayer to its list of discounted medicines.

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Bayer makes a deal on popular contraceptive with Mark Cuban's online pharmacy

5:05pm February 19, 2024

by Sydney Lupkin

Bayer is adding two of its name-brand drugs to the roster of Cost Plus Drugs: the birth control pill Yaz and the menopause treatment Climara.

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State adds peer support option to 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

5:02pm February 19, 2024

by Paul Garber

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will unveil Tuesday a new way to get help for those calling the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

A South Carolina woman is challenging the state's sixth-week abortion ban

4:58pm February 19, 2024

by Victoria Hansen

A 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 "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban.

Two Bayer drugs are headed to Mark Cuban's online pharmacy

4:29pm February 19, 2024

by Sydney Lupkin

The 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 industry.

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CDC data shows the HPV vaccine is not reaching many young people

12:23pm February 19, 2024

by Pien Huang

For 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.

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