After Congress Ended Extra Cash Aid for Families, Communities Tackle Child Poverty Alone

by News Feed Editor | Nov 14, 2024 | Health

If you bring a baby into the Hurley Children’s Center clinic in downtown Flint, Michigan, Mona Hanna will find you. The pediatrician, who gained national prominence for helping uncover the city’s water crisis in 2015, strode across the waiting room in her white lab...

Charity wants testing of men at high risk of prostate cancer

by News Feed Editor | Nov 13, 2024 | Health

Getty ImagesScreening men born with a high risk of developing prostate cancer, once they reach the age of 45, makes financial sense, a cancer charity says.But Prostate Cancer Research also acknowledges more accurate tests would be needed to justify screening all...

Pharmacies vote to cut opening hours in funding protest

by News Feed Editor | Nov 13, 2024 | Health

MARK MARLOW/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockPharmacy owners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted in favour of cutting opening hours and stopping home deliveries for the first time, in a protest over government funding.The National Pharmacy Association (NPA),...

An Arm and a Leg: Fight Health Insurance — With Help From AI

by News Feed Editor | Nov 13, 2024 | Health

Meet Holden Karau: a San Francisco Bay Area software engineer who created an AI tool to help appeal insurance denials.  Her project, Fight Health Insurance, is a labor of love. It draws on her tech expertise and years of experience fighting health insurance: for...

Maryland Is Training More Health Workers To Offer Abortion Care

by News Feed Editor | Nov 13, 2024 | Health

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn’t trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy. “I didn’t...

‘My wife died because the NHS used cheap labour’

by News Feed Editor | Nov 12, 2024 | Health

BBC/Brijesh PatelA man whose wife died after a drain was mistakenly left in her abdomen for 21 hours has condemned the increased use of physician associates (PAs) within the National Health Service.Susan Pollitt’s inquest concluded her death at Royal Oldham...