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Maternal health crisis worsened during the pandemic

Maternal health crisis worsened during the pandemic

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

WASHINGTON– The number of women who died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, known as maternal death, spiked during the pandemic, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. It shows that COVID-19 was a contributing...
Emergency public health funding for COVID vaccines and tests ends in January

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...
Seniors’ interests in updated booster is diminishing

Seniors’ interests in updated booster is diminishing

by Pingping Yin | Oct 27, 2022 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON — Holly Schickler, a retired flight attendant living in Arlington, Va., was fully aware of the new bivalent booster that protects against two variants of COVID-19, not long after the Centers for Disease Control recommended it last month. She was determined...
Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities

Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities

by Jordan Anderson | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...
Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

by Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh | May 1, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas. The 41 Indian health organizations serving them, which the...
Doctors, companies push to keep looser pandemic-era rules for prescribing opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine

Doctors, companies push to keep looser pandemic-era rules for prescribing opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine

by Andrew Marquardt | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured, Health

WASHINGTON — It got a lot easier for patients with opioid addiction to get their medication remotely during the pandemic — and now addiction doctors and telehealth companies are pushing Congress to make those flexibilities permanent. Before Covid-19, patients...
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