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Medicare

Medicare.gov can help you pick a plan

October 23, 2018

Now you can visit Medicare.gov to get personalized help with your coverage choices.

Health Policy, Medicare

More Democrats calling for ‘Medicare-for-All’

October 22, 2018

“Medicare-for-all” and single-payer health care are suddenly popular. Republicans are calling it threat to older people and to American freedom.

Food-borne Illness, Salmonella

Salmonella cases likely linked to Costco cucumbers

October 20, 2018

If you bought English cucumbers from Costco between Aug. 18 and Sept. 10 and still have them in your refrigerator, you should toss them out, officials say.

Health Costs, Health Insurance, Health Policy

This week’s health news ‘must reads’

October 20, 2018

Election stories made up the bulk of the health care news this week. Other great gems and intriguing developments surfaced, though, so let’s get to it.

Alcohol, Injury Prevention

Utah’s Tough New DUI Law Brings Controversy

October 19, 2018

Utah will become the first state to make it illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level of .05 or higher, rather than the .08 standard that every other state.

Infectious Disease

The bacteria that live in and on us: Both friends and foes

October 19, 2018

Much like Pig Pen in the comic strip Peanuts, we actually carry around a cloud of bacteria in the air surrounding us.

Biotechnology

The app will see you now?

October 18, 2018

As the number of mobile health apps surged to a record 325,000 in 2017, app performance is going largely unpoliced.

Health Costs, Health Policy

Health Care Tops Guns, Economy As Voters’ Top Issue

October 18, 2018

Seven in 10 people list health care as “very important” as they make their voting choices, eclipsing economy, gun policy, immigration and foreign policy.

Brain and Nervous System, Child Health

Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Baffles Experts

October 18, 2018

A spike in the number of children with a rare neurological disease that causes polio-like symptoms –acute flaccid paralysis–has officials across scrambling.

Picture of a U.S. penny next to milligrams of fentanyl, which is a fatal dose for most drug users. DEA
Addiction, Opioids, Substance Abuse

How Fentanyl Changes the Opioid Equation

October 17, 2018

With lethal amounts of fentanyl showing up in heroin and other drugs throughout the country, active drug users are at a greater risk of dying than ever before

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