Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has turned to influential Black Americans in pursuit of what would be a lucrative victory: having Medicare cover a new class of weight loss drugs, including the company’s highly sought Wegovy, which can cost patients more…
With tens of millions of Americans burdened by medical debt, hospitals and other medical providers are increasingly shuttling their patients into loans serviced by banks, credit cards, and other financial services companies. The arrangements have proven very profitable for lenders…
Who is using faster internet? As the federal government, along with states, gets ready to make a once-in-a-lifetime investment in broadband infrastructure, the concept of the digital divide remains somewhat the same as it was back in the mid-1990s, when…
Many Americans really want to lose weight — and a new poll shows nearly half of adults would be interested in taking a prescription drug to help them do so. At the same time, enthusiasm dims sharply if the treatment…
Jamestown, Tennessee, was struggling to withstand decades of loss of jobs and population when fate dealt the city of fewer than 2,000 people what could have been a fatal blow: the 2019 closing of its hospital. In the four years…
For most of our journalism majors, reporting for The Oglethorpe Echo is akin to studying abroad. With only 15,000 residents served by a single stoplight and grocery store, Oglethorpe County is quite different from its neighbor Athens, home of the…
Hospital toxicologist Ryan Marino has seen up close the violent reactions of children poisoned by liquid nicotine from electronic cigarettes. One young boy who came to his emergency room experienced intense nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, and needed intravenous fluids to…
Western Colorado rancher Bill Fales said he thinks that California will come for Colorado’s water someday soon. “I used to think it would come in my lifetime,” he said. He looked at a gray pall of rain shrouding the peak…
I came into the world amid generational change, a blurry line somewhere between Gen X and the Millennials. Given the abundance of pop culture markers that tell you how you should classify yourself, I always felt like I was a bit…
The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system billions annually even as it remains out of reach for many of the lower-income seniors most likely to suffer from…