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Health Care Worker Shortage Will Only Get Worse If Lawmakers Don’t Act, Senate Panel Warned

Health Care Worker Shortage Will Only Get Worse If Lawmakers Don’t Act, Senate Panel Warned

by Julia Shapero | Feb 11, 2022 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON – Amid a worker shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, health care professionals suggested to senators Thursday that Congress boost opportunities for their industry and reduce regulations. “I have heard from so many nurses and doctors and other health...
Blood Shortage Spurs Call for Donor Rule Change for Gay Men

Blood Shortage Spurs Call for Donor Rule Change for Gay Men

by Annie Klingenberg | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Health

United States senators and LGBTQ+ advocates are calling on on the FDA to remove restrictions that add obstacles for blood donations from men who have sex with men, as the American Red Cross deals with a blood shortage it called the worst in more than a decade.Since...
Families press Snap to do more to curtail fentanyl sales to teens, saying recent changes don’t do enough

Families press Snap to do more to curtail fentanyl sales to teens, saying recent changes don’t do enough

by Andrew Marquardt | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Health

Amy Neville looked out through her sunglasses to a crowd of more than two dozen parents and activists that had gathered outside Snap, Inc.’s Santa Monica headquarters last Friday to demand the company do more to combat illicit drug sales on its platform. Holding...
Shifting State Rules Keep Telepsychiatry Patients in Limbo

Shifting State Rules Keep Telepsychiatry Patients in Limbo

by Ariel Gans | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Health

Lorraine Pereira’s mental health treatment has been in a state of limbo since August 2021.That’s when the 23-year-old moved from Iowa to California for a research assistant position at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s also when she...
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