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Vaccination Disarray Leaves Seniors Confused About When They Can Get a Shot

Judith Graham   January 14, 2021 Use Our Content It can be republished for free. For weeks, doctors’ phones have been ringing off the hook with anxious older patients on the other end of the line. “When can I get…

Feeling Left Out: Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for Vaccine

Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News   January 13, 2021 Dr. Andrew Carroll — a family doctor in Chandler, Arizona — wants to help his patients get immunized against covid, so he paid more than $4,000 to buy an ultra-low-temperature freezer…

Even With Senate Control, Democrats Will Need Buy-In From GOP on Key Health Priorities

Emmarie Huetteman   January 11, 2021 Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Democrats have argued for more generous pandemic relief, more pressure on drugmakers to lower prices and more attention to systemic racism in health care. On…

Heading Off the Next Pandemic

Jim Robbins   January 4, 2021 As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one. They fear another…

I Found My Secret to Feeling Younger and Stronger. The Pandemic Stole It Away.

Back in early January, before COVID-19 was as familiar as the furniture, I went in for my annual physical. My doctor looked at my test results and shook his head. Virtually everything was perfect. My cholesterol was down. So was…

As More Red States Legalize Marijuana, Some Officials Try to Nip It in the Bud

Justin Franz December 9, 2020 With his state reeling amid one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the nation, the last thing South Dakota Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard wants to be dealing with during the upcoming legislative session…