AltWeeklies Wire
Louisiana's Medicaid Billing Snafunew
Clinics are having problems with Louisiana's newly privatized Medicaid billing for some health services.
New Orleans' Mental Health Crisisnew
What the Louisiana's mental health funding cuts will mean for a medical system that's already overtaxed.
Tags: Health, mental health louisiana
The People Left Behindnew
When a 13-year-old dies, a whole community is left searching for answers.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
03-08-2012 |
Health
Personhood: Symbol or Substance?new
Despite a loss in November's election, anti-abortion "personhood" efforts are gaining steam in Mississippi and elsewhere around the country.
Jackson Free Press |
Elizabeth Waibel |
02-24-2012 |
Health
The Horrors of the Gluten-Sensitive Sufferernew
Imagine that for your entire life you have felt sick. Between the fatigue, stomach pains, and nausea, you have been stuck in an endless cycle of dining roulette. Needless to say, your life is scoring a wee bit low on the fun-scale.
Charleston City Paper |
Nikki Seibert |
02-09-2012 |
Health
Doctor Against Birth Control for Employeesnew
A Twin Cities-based dermatologist may close down his business rather than offer his employees contraception.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Aaron Rupar |
02-03-2012 |
Health
Bond of Brothersnew
A first-person account of how schizophrenia has defined our relationship, for good and bad.
Chico News & Review |
Ken Smith |
01-12-2012 |
Health
Hundreds of Mentally Ill Stranded in Texas Jailsnew
Defendants in Texas with severe mental illness land in the criminal justice system where they're forced to languish for months behind bars while an overburdened state hospital system struggles to find room.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-04-2012 |
Health
Going Viralnew
A 2010 tuberculosis outbreak highlights the shocking failure of a Florida Health Department to contain the crisis or warn the public.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
12-06-2011 |
Health
Junkienew
Attempts to prevent drug use paint addicts as monsters. Guess who then hides their addiction?
Reno News & Review |
Devin Hansrote |
11-21-2011 |
Health
The Shocking Origins of America's Deadly Drug Shortagesnew
By now, most of us are aware that our health care system has been compromised yet again. This time it's a crisis born of a seemingly never-ending number of unexplained drug shortages.
Boulder Weekly |
Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer |
11-17-2011 |
Health
Runaway Growthnew
Forty years into the "War on Cancer," casualties are mounting -- and we still don't know what motivates the enemy.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-08-2011 |
Health
Former San Diego CityBeat Writer Needs a Bone-Marrow Transplantnew
Kia Momtazi is wise beyond her years—as they say, an old soul. She is beautiful, warm, funny, kind, creative, insightful and smart. She also happens to be fighting for her life.
San Diego CityBeat |
Aaryn Belfer |
10-12-2011 |
Health
