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Navajo Nation To Create Its Own Managed Healthcare Entity

Dec 18, 2019
The Navajo Nation says it is seeking to become one of the first Native American tribes to create it's own managed healthcare entity.
 
The tribe recently announced it plans to contract with Molina Healthcare to work toward a managed healthcare offering under New Mexico's Cen
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The Salt
Chef Tunde Wey uses food as a tool for social justice. His company, BabyZoos, aims to use profits from the sale of applesauce to hospitals to fund ventures that create more economic opportunities for African Americans in an effort to close racial wealth

Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

Dec 17, 2019
From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.
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Health Care

California Kaiser Mental Health Workers Launch Strike; Problems 'Keep Getting Worse'

Dec 16, 2019
Clinical psychologists say it can take anywhere from three weeks to two months to see patients suffering from depression, anxiety or serious emotional trauma.
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KNPR's State of Nevada

Culinary Union Flexes Muscle With Dem Candidate Town Halls

Dec 10, 2019

How does the Culinary Union get face time with the three highest-polling Democratic presidential candidates in the same

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KNPR's State of Nevada

Revived Commission To Address Concerns Of Surging Asian-American Community

Nov 27, 2019

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders represent the fastest growing demographic in Nevada.

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Desert Companion
KNPR's State of Nevada

Charting The Future Of Health Care In Rural Nevada

Nov 27, 2019

In the fall of 2015, Tonopah’s hospital closed, leaving thousands of central Nevada’s rural residents with no urgent care for a hundred miles.

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KNPR's State of Nevada

Officials Seek To Revive Rural Tonopah Hospital

Nov 22, 2019

When Tonopah’s hospital closed in 2015, it didn’t just leave the town without an emergency room – it left the region without one, too.

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Desert Companion
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Four Years Later, Tonopah Recovering From Hospital Closure

Nov 14, 2019

In the fall of 2015, the Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah closed, leaving residents with no hos

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2020 Candidate Conversations: Off Script
Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg in South Bend, Ind.

'Just The Right Policy': Pete Buttigieg On His 'Medicare For All Who Want It' Plan

Nov 08, 2019
The South Bend, Ind., mayor explains his health care overhaul plan — "Medicare for All," as well as private insurance — and differentiates it from other Democratic presidential candidates' plans.
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Shots - Health News
Roger Severino, director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, was a major driver of the rule struck down Wednesday. A federal judge found the rule issued earlier this year — making it easier for health care wor

Judge Scraps 'Conscience' Rule Protecting Doctors Who Deny Care For Religious Reasons

Nov 06, 2019
The U.S. judge found that the Trump administration's rule violates the law in "numerous, fundamental, and far-reaching" ways. Critics said the rule prioritized providers over patients.
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Mental Health
Meme, a New Hampshire woman using a family nickname, ended up spending 20 days locked inside a wing of the emergency department at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, N.H.

Woman Detained In Hospital For Weeks Joins Lawsuit Against New Hampshire

Oct 22, 2019
She was detained because she couldn't get a court hearing. She couldn't get a hearing because they are available only to people in psychiatric beds and the state's psychiatric facilities are full.
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National
Jacob Reed, director of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems degree program at Lewis University, demonstrates a drone at the school's airfield outside of Chicago.

Drone Delivery Is One Step Closer To Reality

Oct 18, 2019
Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies.
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Goats and Soda
A month after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, Sherrine Petit Homme LaFrance gets a hug from husband Ferrier Petit Homme. The storm destroyed their home on Grand Abaco Island. They are now living with China Laguerre in Nassau.

PHOTOS: After The Storm, Haitians In The Bahamas Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers

Oct 12, 2019
One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.
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Goats and Soda
Shadrack Frimpong accepts his Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in Louisville on September 12.

A Brush With Death Propelled A 9-Year-Old To A Muhammad Ali Award

Sep 13, 2019
As a poor, sick village boy in Ghana, Shadrack Frimpong remembers "praying and saying if I can keep these legs, then I will use them and work to help other people." And that's exactly what he did.
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Analysis
Ten democratic presidential candidates appear onstage before the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University in Houston on Thursday.

5 Questions Answered About The 3rd Democratic Debate

Sep 13, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren faced off onstage for the first time, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wound up taking much of the heat, sparing Warren.
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Goats and Soda

Volunteering Abroad Is Popular And Problematic. Let's Fix It

Sep 12, 2019
From students to professionals to retirees, many people are eager to fly off for a volunteer stint. How can we make sure they really do make things better?
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Goats and Soda
Dr. Omar Salim Akhtar of Kashmir protested the clampdown on telephone and Internet communications by Indian authorities at a press conference on Aug. 26. He was later arrested, then released after a few hours.

Why Doctors And Medical Journals Are Fighting Over Health Care In Kashmir

Aug 30, 2019
There are very different perspectives on the impact the political crisis is having on the people of Kashmir. The Lancet weighed in — and an association of Indian doctors had an angry reaction.
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Newscast headlines

Practical Approach On Health Care Gets A Look From Democrats

Aug 23, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic voters appear to be reassessing their approach to health care, and pragmatic ideas are getting a closer look.

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Goats and Soda
A corridor of newborns at the San Jose de Maicao Hospital in Maicao, Colombia. Venezuelan migrants have given birth to more than 25,000 infants in Colombia over the past two years.

Colombia Kindly Offers Free Health Care To Venezuelans – Up To A Point

Aug 20, 2019
The government has promised to welcome migrants from neighboring Venezuela as "blood brothers." But more than 1 million newcomers are adding to the stress on an already strained health-care system.
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Dem Candidate Buttigieg Stresses Climate Change, Civil Rights

Aug 05, 2019

 

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Politics
Workers prepare the debate stage at the Fox Theatre in Detroit ahead of Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate.

Your Guide To Night 2 Of The Detroit Democratic Presidential Debates

Jul 31, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden will again be center stage — and the focus will be on how he handles issues of race and whether he looks like he's ready and able to take on President Trump next year.
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Governors Weigh Health Care Plans As They Await Court Ruling

Jul 26, 2019

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. governors are starting to think about what to do if an appeals court upholds a lower court ruling overturning President Obama's signature health care law.

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Business
Tomas Philipson has been named acting chair of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers.

Trump Taps Health Care Expert As Acting Top White House Economist

Jul 15, 2019
President Trump has been expected to nominate Tomas Philipson as permanent chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Philipson, an expert on health economics, succeeds Kevin Hassett.
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Goats and Soda
Pakistani women jostle to receive their ballot papers prior to casting their ballot at a polling station on May 11, 2013 in Lahore. A study in <em>The Lancet</em> provides evidence that free and fair elections are associated with a lower burden of chroni

Good News About Democracy: It's Good For Your Health

Jul 04, 2019
A study finds that for countries worldwide, the "democratic experience" — through free and fair elections — plays a larger role than GDP in easing the burden of chronic diseases.
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Newscast headlines

Warren: Unions Would Get Voice In Move To Public Insurance

Jul 03, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrat Elizabeth Warren says unions that fought for their health care plans will have a seat at the negotiating table if she's elected president and moves to end the private insurance system, but she won't commit to letting union members keep their plans.

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