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In Oregon, Medicaid Is Buying People Air Conditioners
Oregon has started providing air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to help some of its Medicaid recipients cope with soaring heat, smoky skies and other dangers of climate change.
It’s a first-in-the-nation…
‘Breaking a Promise’: California Deficit Could Halt Raises for Disability Workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say Gov. Gavin Newsom is reneging on a scheduled raise for the workers who care for their loved ones, and advocates warn of potential…
DIY Gel Manicures May Harm Your Health
A fresh set from the comfort of your own home? DIY gel nails have been all the rage on social media, but the practice could cause you to develop a life-changing allergy. In a TikTok video, creator @alina.gene describes…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Wrong About a Ban on NIH Research About Mass Shootings
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact
“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an April 21 post on X
The National Institutes of Health is the federal government’s main agency for…
La OMS confirma cómo se propagan los virus por el aire. Los CDC tal vez miren para otro lado
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha emitido un informe que transforma la manera en que el mundo comprende infecciones respiratorias como covid-19, la gripe y el sarampión.
Motivada por graves errores durante la…
WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like covid-19, influenza, and measles.
Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the WHO convened about…
AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change
Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers, and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat,…
The Neglected U.S. Victims of Agent Orange
The Department of Veterans Affairs has long given Vietnam veterans disability compensation for illness connected to Agent Orange, widely used to defoliate Southeast Asian battlefields during the U.S. war.
Less well known: …
Sign Here? Financial Agreements May Leave Doctors in the Driver’s Seat
Cass Smith-Collins jumped through hoops to get the surgery that would match his chest to his gender.
Living in Las Vegas and then 50, he finally felt safe enough to come out as a transgender man. He had his wife’s support…
Toxic Gas Adds to a Long History of Pollution in Southwest Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town.
Like other…