For lots of gals, a heart illness diagnosis or recent cardiac event may well depart them feeling alone and frightened, but talking with somebody with a very similar working experience who can provide assistance and empathy can make all the variation. To develop that possibility, Hartford HealthCare’s Heart & Vascular Institute has partnered with WomenHeart […]
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First Edition: May 27, 2022
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Note to readers: KHN’s First Edition will not be published Monday, May 30, in honor of Memorial Day. Look for it again in your inbox on Tuesday. KHN: Burned Out By Covid And 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. […]
NC Senate Republicans float Medicaid expansion bill
By Rose Hoban and Rachel Crumpler It finally happened. In a move that many health care advocates have been pushing for years, the state Senate introduced a bill on Wednesday that would expand the state’s Medicaid program to some half million-plus low-income North Carolinians. Until this point, Medicaid has been reserved mostly for children from […]
Woman sues NC prisons: Mistreatment while pregnant
By Elizabeth Thompson It’s been two and a half years since Tracey Edwards went through a pregnancy, labor and birth while incarcerated at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. The suffering she experienced during her birth process still keeps her up at night. That experience is behind the lawsuit she filed last year against […]
NC public health workers draw road map for future
By Rose Hoban When hundreds of North Carolina public health leaders met in a Raleigh hotel recently for an annual conference, they could not help but look back at this most extraordinary time in health care and incorporate lessons learned from the pandemic as they planned for the future. One theme that emerged from the […]
First Edition: May 23, 2022
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. KHN: The New MADD Movement: Parents Rise Up Against Drug Deaths Life as he knew it ended for Matt Capelouto two days before Christmas in 2019, when he found his 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra, dead in her childhood bedroom in Temecula, California. Rage overtook grief when authorities […]