Physician-Assisted Suicide Has Been Legal in California for a Year. How’s it Going? California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. The law created a process for dying patients to ask their doctors for a lethal prescription that the patients can then ingest privately, at home. Since then, at least 500 Californians have received life-ending prescriptions, according to newly released data collected by Compassion and Choices, an advocacy group that promotes aid-in-dying laws nationwide. Read More... June 8, 2017 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Physicians react to surgeon general’s opioid plea In what is believed to be the first such action by someone holding his post, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, is sending a letter to the nation’s 2.3 million prescribing physicians urging them to help solve the growing opioid epidemic. Read More... September 15, 2016 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Aetna pulling out of most Obamacare markets Aetna is pulling out of all but four states where it currently sells plans on the Obamacare exchanges for 2017. Read More... August 16, 2016 Insurance, Public Health Aetna, Insurance, Obamacare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Insurance Rules Can Hamper Recovery From Opioid Addiction Twice a day, Angela and Nate Turner of Greenwood, Ind., put tiny strips that look like tinted tape under their tongues. "They taste disgusting," Angela says. But the taste is worth it to her. Read More... August 8, 2016 Insurance, Public Health Opioid 0 0 Comment Read More »
Doctors Need A New Skill Set For This Opioid Abuse Treatment In a big hotel conference room near New York's Times Square, six doctors huddle around a greasy piece of raw pork. They watch as addiction medicine specialist Michael Frost delicately marks the meat, incises it and implants four match-sized rods. "If you can do it well on the pork, you can easily do it on the person," Frost tells his audience. Read More... July 29, 2016 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
