States threaten to crackdown on providers amid Covid-19 vaccine distribution
Though doses of the long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine are making their way around the country, the rollout is moving slowly and...
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Oregon Health & Science University, GE set up state’s first virtual ICU program
Dr. Marshall Lee, TeleICU medical director at Oregon Health & Science University, uses Mural Virtual Care Solution to see data in real time and work...
States’ face-covering mandates leave gaps in protection
Brady Bowman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and two friends strolled down 11th Street, all sporting matching neck gaiters branded with the...
Red states’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the law
Attorneys for GOP-controlled states seeking to kill the Affordable Care Act told the Supreme Court last week that at least some of the 12 million...
2020’s Most Overweight and Obese States in America
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month and things are not looking good for the nation. People can become offended by the wording, but the facts...
Survey: A third of states weighing moves to spend less on drugs
As they grapple with the economic fallout of Covid-19, about one-third of U.S. states are experimenting with price-control measures for prescription drugs. But it’s unclear...
Western States site name to be changed
The famed Western States 100 ultramarathon starts in Squaw Valley, Calif., near a river, some roads and several ski lodges of the same name, which...
Congress, states hold the keys to telehealth expansion
An executive order signed Monday directed a swath of federal agencies to expand telehealth services after the pandemic ends. But at this point, much...
Infographic: How states are expanding telehealth coverage for mental health services
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, most states covered telehealth appointments for behavioral health services in some capacity. But limitations in how patients could access those appointments,...
Trump administration’s sudden shift on Covid data leaves states in the lurch
Just as the number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 approaches new highs in some parts of the country, hospital data in Kansas and Missouri is...