Emergency public health funding for COVID vaccines and tests ends in January

by Pingping Yin | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured, Health, Health

WASHINGTON — With several new omicron sub variants steadily gaining ground, experts, such as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, warned another COVID surge will come this winter. Unlike the first two COVID winters when the federal...

Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

by Katherine Huggins and Julia Mueller | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...

Native Americans in Chicago have high opioid death rates. So why won’t they get tribal settlement money?

by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...

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

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

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...