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Meet Mary Wakefield, the nurse administrator tasked with revamping the CDC

It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of criticism for repeatedly mishandling its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently monkeypox, the agency has acknowledged it failed and needs to change.

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Organ transplants are up, but the agency in charge is under fire

For the past decade, Precious McCowan’s life has revolved around organ transplants. She’s a doctoral candidate studying human behavior in Dallas who has survived two kidney transplants. And in the midst of her end-stage renal disease, her 2-year-old son died. She chose to donate his organs in hopes they would…

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‘He stood his ground’: California state senator will leave office as champion of tough vaccine laws

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker who rose to national prominence by muscling through some of the country’s strongest vaccination laws is leaving the state legislature later this year after a momentous tenure that made him a top target of the boisterous and burgeoning movement against vaccination mandates.

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Needle exchanges no longer a city thing

In recent years, harm reduction tactics have begun to spread to rural areas

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With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

Colorado’s climate is so dry that reaching the thresholds for a heat advisory is nearly impossible

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Hospitals cutting services as costs rise

Low surgery volumes, high equipment prices, and sicker patients are digging into hospital profits

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The next pandemic is of long COVID

The latest COVID-19 surge is waning — but long COVID will be the next public health crisis

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Rural struggle for cancer medicine

One type of T-cell therapy is offered only at major transplant hospitals — meaning long drives for rural patients

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A needle exchange project modeled on urban efforts aims to save lives in rural Nevada

ELKO, Nev. — Richard Cusolito believes he’s saving lives by distributing clean syringes and needles to people who use drugs in this rural area of northeastern Nevada — but he knows some residents disagree.

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The $18,000 breast biopsy: When having insurance costs you a bundle

When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it.

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Congressman’s wife died after taking herbal remedy white mulberry leaf marketed for weight loss, diabetes

“Many people assume if that product is sold in the United States of America, somebody has inspected it, and it must be safe,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said when he introduced legislation to strengthen oversight of dietary supplements. “Unfortunately, that’s not always true.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Congressman’s wife died after taking herbal remedy for weight loss, report says

California Rep Tom McClintock said he was ‘devastated’ following December 2021 death

The Independent UK

An "herbal remedy" results in death

Lori McClintock, the wife of U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, died of "adverse effects of white mulberry leaf"

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Death of congressman’s wife linked to ‘white mulberry leaf ingestion’ – coroner

Lori McClintock, wife of California Republican, had dehydration and gastroenteritis caused by leaf often used as health supplement

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Congressman’s wife died after taking herbal remedy marketed for diabetes and weight loss

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The wife of a Northern California congressman died late last year after ingesting a plant that is generally considered safe and is used as an herbal remedy for a variety of ailments, including diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol, KHN has learned.

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Librarians confront a new workplace

As America's social safety net decays, librarians are feeling less safe doing their jobs

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More communities are giving flavored tobacco the boot. Will California follow?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s third-largest city banished flavored tobacco products from store shelves this summer, joining scores of other cities and counties in the state in a public health push to reduce nicotine addiction among youths and young adults.

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Policies to roll back abortion rights will hit incarcerated people particularly hard, advocates say

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who…

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Grassroots work leads to vaccination success in Georgia refugee community

Naw Mu Chaw had questions about the possible side effects of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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An $18,000 biopsy? Paying cash might have been cheaper than using her insurance

A hospital's cost calculator said her procedure would be $1,400 for patients without insurance. Instead, the bill was almost $18,000 and, her part was more than $5,000 — the balance of her deductible.

Salon

OB-GYNs may flee Indiana. Here's why

Medical residents who signed up to provide health care to women are "being told they can't do that"

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Shelter sickness: Migrants see health problems linger and worsen while waiting at the border

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Two days after arriving at a temporary migrant shelter at the border with the U.S. in June, Rosa Viridiana Ceron Alpizar’s 9-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son fell ill. Most of the kids in the converted gym had stomach issues after being served a meal of sausage…

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After wiping out $6.7 billion in medical debt, this nonprofit is just getting started

Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas.

WEKU

Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, they're selling for next to nothing. One company is snapping several distressed or closed hospitals in rural Tennessee, hoping to turn a profit.

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Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

DARLINGTON, South Carolina — Just off the deserted town square, with its many boarded-up businesses, people lined up at the walk-up pharmacy window at Genesis Health Care, a federally funded clinic.

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