In the wake of the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and the outpouring of frustration about insurance coverage, prior authorizations have emerged as a particular roadblock in healthcare. Prior authorization requires medical providers to get an insurer’s […]
Americans are sharing stories of heartbreaking insurance denials – ones that led to worse illness and death – in the aftermath of the killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of the mega-insurer United Healthcare. A rise in practices such as prior
The first person in the US to develop severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has been hospitalized in Louisiana, officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Wednesday. Officials believe the person had contact with
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A father teaches his child to swim in a pond in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Drowning is a leading causes of death globally for children, according to the first ever report on drowning as a public health issue issued by the World
a ground-breaking report that’s startling yet hopeful : Goats and Soda : NPR Read More »
Since Thursday morning, United Healthcare hasn’t left my thoughts – but not for the reason you might think. On Thursday, my pediatrician told me to take my 18-month-old daughter to the emergency room immediately. My baby needed breathing treatments she
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When Donald Trump nominated David Weldon, a 71-year-old doctor from Florida who has long questioned the safety of vaccines, to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), anti-vaccine activists celebrated. The move comes as the US faces
Jay Bhattacharya, an unofficial Covid adviser in Trump’s first administration, has been selected as the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the leading biomedical research institutions in the world. The choice of Bhattacharya, a Stanford economist
The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more transmissible among people, early data shows – a warning of what the virus can do that
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As the number of people infected with bird flu rises in the US, continued limits on testing may pose a problem as these cases crop up. Commercial labs are now developing tests that will be available by prescription, but the
Although older Americans had the highest number of deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic, younger Americans had the highest rates compared with the overall population – especially among people of color, according to a new study. And in two groups –
