SocietyCommentary
All Lives Matter, Including Alfie Evans’
When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents’ wishes, many… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump Likely to Prescribe More Competition, Generics to Reduce Drug Prices
President Donald Trump’s prescription for lower drug costs likely will involve a push for more competition and clearing hurdles for more generic drugs. The president’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Better Treatment of the Mentally Ill Could Reduce Mass Shootings
After a 19-year-old with a rifle killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Donald Trump lamented how mental illness could have been a… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Tom Cotton Backs Stricter Penalties for Fentanyl, Calling It a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has filed legislation to allow stricter prison terms for dealers of fentanyl, a substance he calls a “weapon of mass destruction.”… Read More
Health CareNews
CDC Warns the Opioid Crisis Is ‘Accelerating’ as Deaths Surge 30% Nationally
Opioid overdoses experienced another dramatic spike over the past year across every region of the country, according to a report from federal health officials. Data… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Parallels Between the Gun Debate and the Opioid Crisis
By now, most have heard about the deadly opioid epidemic that has struck our nation. According to data compiled in a Kaiser Family Foundation report,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
I Tried Telemedicine and Was Amazed. Here’s Why It Can Be a Huge Aid This Flu Season.
Flu season is the worst it has been since health officials began keeping records in 2004, and by some measures, it’s still getting worse. According… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Opioids: The Crisis of Our Lifetime
Eric Hargan is about to get a demotion, and he is just fine with that. The acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress Should Revamp Children’s Health Insurance Program, Not Just Reauthorize It
We all know the feeling of falling into the same dinner routine. You’ve been making spaghetti every Tuesday night for the past two months. Today,… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Fact Check: Do Drug Overdoses Kill More Americans Than Gun Homicides and Motor Vehicles?
During a speech Thursday on the opioid epidemic, President Donald Trump said that “more people are dying from [drug] overdoses today than from gun homicides… Read More
Health CareNews
2 States Ravaged by Opioids Show Difference Faith Makes
HANOVER, N.H.—There is a strong correlation between lack of religious attendance and illicit drug use, research shows in contrasting two states hit hard by the… Read More
Health CareNews
Tom Price Resigns as HHS Secretary
President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced late… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump Backs ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Drugs, Already Law in 37 States
Laura McLinn’s son Jordan was diagnosed at age 4 with muscular dystrophy, a terminal illness with no cure. But, McLinn says, matters could be much… Read More
SocietyNews
White House Drug Commission Implores Trump to Declare a State of Emergency
The White House commission created to tackle America’s opioid addiction crisis is imploring President Donald Trump to immediately declare a national state of emergency. The… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We Hear You: Facing the Opioid Crisis and Defending the Marriage Views of Farmers
Editor’s note: We were pretty jazzed to publish a commentary on the opioid crisis by William Bennett and Robert DuPont. We’ve been meaning to run… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How to Save Rural America From the Opioid Crisis
Despite his gaunt frame and sunken eyes, he walks with a distinct swagger down Tuscarawas Street. At the intersection with Cherry Street, he turns and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Opioid Crisis Is Dire. Why We Need a National Conversation About It Separate From Obamacare.
Whatever the merits or demerits of the recently released Senate version of the GOP health care bill, some have suggested that it should put more… Read More
Health CareNews
What a Wounded Veteran Thinks of Trump’s VA Reform
Sgt. Mike Verardo’s military career ended seven years ago because of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, but he said the worst part of his… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We Hear You: Put Blame for Opioid Epidemic Where It Belongs
Editor’s note: Our five-part series by Josh Siegel about the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects in one poor New Hampshire county generated ardent responses from readers…. Read More
Health CareFeature
Meet the First Responders Who Encounter Death by Opioid Overdose
COLEBROOK, N.H.—Sally Zankowski is who comes when it’s too late. She’s there to define, investigate—and make sense of—another sudden death owed to opioid overdose in… Read More
Health CareFeature
How a Family Doctor Works With Police to Combat a Rural County’s Opioid Epidemic
COLEBROOK, N.H.—Bruce Latham, a lanky, self-employed doctor, occupies a unique position in the depths of rural New Hampshire’s opioid drug addiction crisis. As part of… Read More
Health CareFeature
This Doctor Prescribed More Addictive Opioids Than Anyone Else in the State. Now He Tries to Overcome the Drug Crisis.
COLEBROOK, N.H.—Inside a dimly lit room at the largest health care provider in New Hampshire’s least populated county, a circle of drug addicts talk about… Read More
Health CareNews
This Mystery Virus Is Being Compared to One of the World’s Worst Illnesses
A year and a half ago “Full Measure” first reported on a baffling new illness responsible for nightmarish scenarios: a child wakes up and his… Read More
Health CareFeature
In New Hampshire’s Poorest County, One Opioid Addict Helps Another Choose Life Over Death
BETHLEHEM, N.H.—They came to be addicted to drugs in different ways, but ended up in the same place. Steven Blaisdell, 26, a stocky, shy son… Read More
Health CareFeature
This Poor County Switched From Backing Obama to Trump. Here’s What Happened.
COLEBROOK, N.H.—His left foot in a walking boot after surgery, Rick Samson, an independent-minded county commissioner in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, is behind… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Solving the Physician Shortage Crisis
With the health care debate currently dominating headlines, many Americans may be unaware of a more subtle issue that is affecting the U.S. health care… Read More
Health CareNews
California Pushes Forward $400 Billion Universal Health Care Bill
The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a $400 billion universal health care bill Thursday with no plan to pay for it. The committee passed the… Read More
SocietyNews
GOP Lawmakers Warn Trump That Obama Health Bureaucrat Could Hamper Pro-Life Agenda
Forty-one members of Congress sent a letter Monday to President Donald Trump asking him to replace the head of the National Institutes of Health, citing… Read More
Health CareNews
Senate Confirms Trump’s Nominee to Lead Food and Drug Administration
The Senate confirmed Dr. Scott Gottlieb to lead the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, filling in the list of presidential appointments at the Department of… Read More
Health CareNews
The Growing Problem of ‘Fake Science’
Viewers may question much of what they hear and read about scientific and medical studies after watching the latest “Full Measure” cover story. It’s a cautionary note… Read More
