By Taylor Knopf North Carolina lawmakers passed their state budget compromise last week, and there was a noticeable change in the way they described funding to help people with substance use disorder. Past budgets provided funds for “substance use disorder treatment” or “recovery services,” but failed to be specific about details. Either term could apply […]
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NC veterans agency ignores nursing home assessment deadline
By Thomas Goldsmith Until they heard from Gov. Roy Cooper, the state Division of Military and Veterans Affairs slow-walked directives and missed legislative deadlines to look into the state veterans nursing home system and to report regularly on their progress, state records show. Provisions in the state budget bill passed last winter directed the division […]
How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence
Arthur Allen The grinding two-in addition yrs of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for a single corporation — Pfizer — making it equally hugely influential and vastly profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and eliminate hundreds just about every working day. Its results in creating covid medications has specified […]
Research finds less than 7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of the U.S. adult population with good cardiometabolic health
A lot less than 7 p.c of the U.S. grownup inhabitants has very good cardiometabolic well being, a devastating wellness disaster demanding urgent motion, according to analysis led by a workforce from the Friedman School of Diet Science and Policy at Tufts College in a revolutionary point of view on cardiometabolic health tendencies and disparities […]
Supreme Court’s abortion decision puts doctors in legal limbo : Shots
Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on June 24, 2022. JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on […]
Could overturning Roe change OB-GYNs training?
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision last week eliminating a constitutional right to an abortion, dozens of states are moving to either restrict abortions or ban the procedure outright. Almost all of those restrictions leave pregnant patients out of the picture when it comes to levying potential fines and/or prison time. Instead, the […]