WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie Sanders’ call for replacing private insurance with a government plan to President Donald Trump’s pledge to erase the Affordable Care Act [...]
WASHINGTON — In 2012, as the death toll from the nation’s opioid crisis mounted, drug companies shipped out enough of the powerful and addictive painkillers for every man, woman and child in the U.S. to have nearly a 20-day supply. In some counties, mostly in Appalachia, it was well over 100 days. An Associated Press [...]
As Americans flocked en masse to cities and suburbs during the last century, most lost some of the common sense of their farm grandmothers and great-grandmothers. One such pearl of wisdom is the healthful benefits of farm kids getting dirty — the subject of an Ohio State University-led study. Scientists from the university found that [...]
WASHINGTON — Dr. Raeford Brown was uniquely positioned to help the U.S. government answer a critical question: Is a new version of the painkiller OxyContin helping fight the national opioid epidemic? An expert in pain treatment at the University of Kentucky, Brown led a panel of outside experts advising the Food and Drug Administration on [...]
SALEM, Oregon (AP) — Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the nation. But supporters say don’t call [...]
Results of a new study co-authored by an Ohio State University professor has found that California parents who use marijuana administered more types of discipline to their children on average than did non-users. Everything from timeouts to physical abuse, in some cases, Ohio State social work professor Bridget Freisthler said. “The acceptability of marijuana is [...]
JACKSON (AP) — The numbers are staggering: An average yearly total of 107 opioid pills per resident were distributed over a seven-year period in this rural county deep in Appalachia. The newly released federal data is shocking even to people who live here in Jackson County, where nearly everyone seems to have known someone who [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday posted the provisional numbers showing nearly 68,000 drug overdose deaths were reported last year. The number may go up as more investigations are completed, but [...]
During the span of working for four decades in the senior living field Eleanor Alvarez often noticed patients with Alzheimer’s disease were not placed in the more upscale part of the facility and it often came with the impression that such patients don’t know where they are. “That’s so wrong,” Alvarez repeated twice. “They’re still [...]
After launching in Ohio more than a year ago, Landmark Health is bringing back house calls by medical professions for patients with chronic health problems. Landmark started in New York in 2014 and now operates in 13 states. The Ohio and northern Kentucky area consists of 9,000 potential patients with Landmark now engaging a quarter [...]