As a heat wave clamps down on much of the nation, cities are scurrying to provide shelter and assistance to the most vulnerable: the homeless and the elderly.
Employers Urged To Find New Ways To Address Workers’ Mental Health
An estimated 8 in 10 workers with a mental health condition don’t get treatment because of the shame and stigma associated with it.
Some medicines and driving don’t mix
Prescribed and over-the-counter drugs for a wide variety of conditions, including drugs for pain, anxiety, insomnia, and allergies, can impair your driving.
Common Medications Can Masquerade As Dementia In Seniors
1 in 4 older adults take anticholinergic drugs — a class of medications used to treat allergies, insomnia, leaky bladders, and other common disorders
If you need to provide documentation of measles immunity, how do you obtain it?
How to avoid missing school or work if you’re exposed to the measles
Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney Transplant
Medicare has covered transplant patients who had end-stage renal disease. But coverage ends after 36 months for those younger than 65.
States Diverge on Transgender Health Care
States are diverging on whether to provide gender reassignment services, such as hormone treatments and surgery, under their Medicaid programs.
WIC program to replace paper checks with shopping cards
WIC participants will no longer need to keep track of multiple paper checks or purchase all foods on their benefit at one time.
Despite treatment, HIV persists in spinal fluid, linked to cognitive deficits
After nearly a decade of treatment, cells sheltering the virus could be found in the cerebrospinal fluid of half of participants in a trial of people with HIV.
Climate fears take toll on American’s mental health
At North Seattle Therapy & Counseling in Washington state, they’re seeing patients with anxiety or depression related to climate change and the Earth’s future.
Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers By Billions
Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare by nearly $30 billion the past three years alone.
New case of measles in King County
Case visited locations in Kenmore and Seattle while contagious. This brings the total to ten measles cases in King County residents since the beginning of May
UW researchers turn back the genetic clock to see how cancer evolves
It’s possible to take precancerous cells back in time, so to speak, to identify the genetic mutations that triggered their transformation.
As Temperatures Climb, A New Push To Keep Workers Safe
Over the past decade, more than 350 workers nationwide have died from heat-related illness. Tens of thousands more have had serious heat-related illnesses.
Did Your Health Plan Deny You Care? Fight Back.
If you do appeal, your chance of getting the health plan’s decision overturned is a lot better than you might think.