9+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1300+ words) SEATTLE " The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the once-healthy patient described symptoms of weakness, chronic fatigue and frequently forgetting daily activities. "I still…...

7+ hour, 53+ min ago  (581+ words) Nearly one-fifth of Americans relied on drinking water systems with elevated and potentially dangerous levels of nitrate in recent years, according to a new study released Thursday. The nonprofit Environmental Working Group examined test data collected by water systems across…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago  (1117+ words) Last fall, as Asante'prepared to close its community hospital in Ashland while claiming financial difficulties, it quietly asked the state for permission to spend an undisclosed amount of money to buy a stand-alone surgery center in Medford. Asante, however, has…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago  (1026+ words) Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California's North Coast. "They're the folks that work at restaurants. They're the teacher's aides," said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open…...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1276+ words) On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural Oregon, drove to visit a patient in her 60s who lives in The Dalles. The patient lived alone, and "really struggles with social isolation," Guzman said. After a serious…...

12+ hour, 49+ min ago  (618+ words) Oregon officials have ordered a nationwide nonprofit and its affiliates to stop offering health care benefits as an insurer while'only providing "memberships" that do not provide coverage and protections required by law. The order bars Clear Share Health and its…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1667+ words) Jannotta said she soon became dependent on opioids. Cut off by her doctors, she found her way to Kensington, home of Philadelphia's dangerous open-air drug market, to score pills. She eventually lost her car, her home " and her grandson. Tyler…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1040+ words) After decades of selling insurance, Illinois-based broker John Jaggi had never seen anything like it. More than 80 of his customers who were enrolled in the same Medicare supplemental plan from the insurer Chubb got hit last August with a 45% increase....

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (554+ words) A former Asante nursing assistant is suing the southern Oregon health system, alleging sex discrimination and retaliation for whistleblowing and pressing for higher wages. The lawsuit claims that Robyn Flynn was fired from her job in the cardiovascular intensive care…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (593+ words) With a key hearing approaching, Peace Health and an Atlanta-based doctor staffing organization are asking a federal judge to throw out an'unusual lawsuit that seeks to block the health system's controversial effort'to replace its longstanding emergency room provider. The move…...