July 29, 2024
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Patients looking for doctors who will take their insurance often find the list of doctors provided by their insurance companies are inaccurate or out of date. Insurers and doctors are fighting a bill that would fine insurers for having “ghost networks” that aren’t accurate.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that set health care workers on a path to a $25 minimum wage. Lawmakers then delayed it, but some hospitals are raising pay ahead of schedule.
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When Vice President Kamala Harris rallied thousands of supporters in West Allis last week, she hit a reset button on the presidential race, turning concerns from many voters about an inevitable Donald Trump landslide seemingly into ancient history.
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Did you ever have a colleague whom you could trust with your deepest concerns, fears and secrets? Someone to mentor you, boost you up and listen to you rant when things just got to be too much to manage? For a long time, Donna Goolkasian was that colleague. Throughout a long career in medical communications,…
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Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects.
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Pennsylvania’s free newsletter here.New details about a 2020 case of accidentally discarded ballots in Luzerne County …
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Just last year wildfires generated over 2.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. That’s the equivalent of driving 500 million gas-powered cars around for a year, according to the EPA. With the wildfire season burning its way through this summer, several research groups are now working to demonstrate one small plant…
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When Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn rushed to the criminal court arraignment of City Councilmember Susan Zhuang after Zhuang appeared to bite a police officer during a heated protest against a proposed Bensonhurst homeless shelter, it made for a head-scratching spectacle. Bichotte Hermelyn had railed against neighborhoods that pushed back on hosting shelters, especially in…
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Arizona’s free newsletter here.Many Arizona residents seeking to register to vote ahead of Tuesday’s primary were bloc…
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Rural communities are losing access to maternity care, raising the risk of pregnancy complications, especially for Black women, who face higher rates of maternal mortality. Now, a Georgia medical school is trying to help by training doulas, practitioners who offer patients extra support before, during, and after childbirth.