Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana. After his mom finally saw a specialist in Glasgow, about an hour away, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Bighorn…
By JEFF BRANDES To say healthcare’s safety net experienced tectonic shifts in 2025 would be an understatement. The rapid introduction of multiple and massive policy shifts left many healthcare leaders reeling with more questions than answers. As the industry turns the corner into 2026 and the dust begins to settle, it’s time for stakeholders to…
Simple: get people vaccinated. Dr. Oz agrees. The New York Times reports: Dr. Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, told CNN on Sunday that there was a simple solution to the raging measles outbreak in South Carolina, which has infected more than 900 people and become the largest U.S. outbreak in recent…
By KIM BELLARD You know, it’s gotten to the point when I just try to tune out the things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says. “Schizophrenia can be cured with a keto diet”? Sure, whatever. “The war on protein is over”? Who even knew there was such a war? The carnivore diet is a great way…
Más personas de las que se esperaba se inscribieron este año en los planes de seguro médico de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA, por sus siglas en inglés), a pesar de la fuerte reducción de los subsidios para pagar las primas. Pero esos números no son tan simples: aún queda…
Rebekah Stewart, enfermera del Servicio de Salud Pública de Estados Unidos (USPHS, por sus siglas en inglés), recibió en abril del año pasado una llamada que la hizo llorar. Había sido seleccionada para participar en la nueva operación de detención de inmigrantes del gobierno de Donald Trump en la base de Guantánamo, en Cuba. Ese…
Cuando su médico falleció repentinamente en agosto, Tammy MacDonald se sumó al grupo de aproximadamente 17% de adultos en Estados Unidos que no tienen médico de atención primaria. MacDonald quería encontrar un nuevo doctor de inmediato. Necesitaba que le renovaran la receta de sus medicamentos para la presión arterial y quería agendar una cita de…
The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. “There are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did — ivermectin, in particular — did engage in sort of…
More Americans than expected enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year, after premium subsidies were dramatically cut — but it remains to be seen whether they’ll keep the coverage as their costs mount. It’s all part of a drama that roiled the ACA’s 2026 open enrollment period. Congressional debate over whether…
It’s not well known but there’s a lot of people in hospitals who spend a lot of time creating patient registries for quality programs, CMS reporting, clinical trials and lots more. It requires extremely detailed abstraction of patient data from patient records and comparisons with registry demands. Wouldn’t it be clever if an AI system…