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Cigarettes vs Vaping the 'Wrong Comparison,' Researcher Says An inhalation toxicologist believes e-cigarettes should not be compared with traditional, combustible cigarettes because vaping products expose consumers to chemicals in a fundamentally different way.
Kaiser Health News, November 2019
Sit, Heal: Dog Teaches Military Med Students the Merits of Service Animals Although service dogs are commonly seen at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a retriever mix is a clinical instructor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology.
Kaiser Health News, November 2019
As Congress Works to Curb Surprise Medical Bills, NY's Fix Gets Examined Patients who unknowingly use an out-of-network doctor often receive a big bill. New York uses "baseball-style" arbitration as a way to settle payment disputes between insurance companies and doctors.
Kaiser Health News, November 2019
Hospitals Take Shot at Opioid Makers Over Treating Uninsured for Addiction A few hundred hospitals have banded together to sue drugmakers in state courts, but far more are staying on the sidelines to avoid 'unflattering attention' about their role in the opioid crisis.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
California Fires Illuminate Trauma and Resilience The chaos and evacuations prompted by wind-fueled wildfire in Sonoma County pose special challenges for people in need of ongoing medical treatment.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms Companies are aggressively touting 3D mammograms, although there's no evidence they save lives.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
'Fear of Falling': How Hospitals Do More Harm by Keeping Patients in Bed In an 'epidemic of immobility,' older hospital patients remain stuck in bed, their movements tracked by loud, ineffective bed alarms, losing muscle mass that's key to health and daily functioning.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
They Enrolled in Medical School to Practice Rural Medicine. What Happened? Eight years ago, a new medical program opened in Salina, Kan., as an experimental way to promote rural medicine. Only three of its eight newly minted doctors are now working in the most rural communities.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
A Nonprofit Hospital System That Sues Poor Patients Has Freed Thousands From Debt Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, in Memphis, Tennessee, is erasing debt for unpaid hospital bills owed by more than 6,500 patients. The hospital had profited by aggressively pursuing patients who couldn't pay.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
Why Hospitals Are Getting Into the Housing Business Legally and morally, hospitals can't discharge patients if they have no place to go. Some hospitals have turned to finding housing for these patients — or even building housing units themselves.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
New Round of Medicare Readmission Penalties Hits 2,583 Hospitals
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
Meet the Health Officials Who Alerted the World to Vaping Illness It's a tale of teamwork, communication, and long-serving public health officials tapping into their networks in an era of limited public health funding.
Kaiser Health News, October 2019
Doctors, Nurses With Addictions Often Denied a Crucial Recovery Option Clinical studies show medication-assisted treatment decreases the rate of relapse and overdose more than other interventions alone, but often clinicians can't get permission to take opioid agonists.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Want to Reduce Suicides? Follow the Data -- to Medical Offices Data from medical offices, motels and even animal shelters is being used to help inform suicide prevention programs.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Groupons for Medical Treatment? Welcome to Today's US Health Care By offering an upfront cost on a coupon site like Groupon, argues one healthcare administrator, medical companies are helping to drive prices down while at the same marketing their medical businesses.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Firing Doctor, Hospital Sets Off National Challenge to Aid-in-Dying Laws Centura Health, a Colorado-based health system jointly run by Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches, fired a longtime doctor over her efforts to help a patient with terminal cancer end his life.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Mysterious Vaping Lung Injuries May Have Flown Under Regulatory Radar Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn't know where to report such cases.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Pharma Cash Rolls Into Congress to Defend an Embattled Industry Lobbying heats up well ahead of the 2020 elections, led by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Lowering drug prices is one cause that unites Republicans and Democrats.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Multiple Hospitals Close in Wake of Fraud Allegations Jorge A. Perez and his management company, EmpowerHMS, helped run an empire of rural hospitals. Now, 12 of them have entered bankruptcy and eight have closed their doors. So, what happened?
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
What the Trump Home Dialysis Plan Would Really Look Like It takes more than an executive order to shift kidney disease patients from dialysis centers to home care. These patients show it takes discipline, skill, will and support.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019

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