Tag: health care
Hochul Signs Long-Awaited Bill Removing MOUD Barriers for New Yorkers on Medicaid
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that removed prior authorization for people on ...
FDA Approves First Long-Lasting HIV PrEP Medication—But There’s a Catch
The FDA has approved the first injectable medication to protect against HIV transmission. Apretude ...
Canada Allows Three Mental Health Patients to Access Psilocybin Therapy
Canada’s top health agency has agreed to allow an additional three people to use ...
SAMHSA Weighs Permanent Methadone Take-Homes, Decades Too Late
In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, ...
How Certain DAs in Red States Could Avoid Prosecuting Abortion Post-Roe
The year is 2022. The Supreme Court just issued its ruling in Dobbs v. ...
How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People
On a Saturday night two years ago, Stann Fransisco was driving back home to ...
UK Will Send a Powerful Message by Allowing NHS to Prescribe Vapes
The UK has long been among the world’s leaders in tobacco harm reduction, and ...
Michigan Capital’s Only Syringe Program Is Running Out of Supplies
The only syringe service program (SSP) in Ingham County, Michigan, based in the state ...
Health Care Workers Need to Be Watching the Splintering Drug Supply
In the summer of 2016, the synthetic cannabinoid “K2” burst into the drug landscape ...
Warn That Alcohol Causes Cancer? Add That Drinkers Live Longer.
“There is no safe level of alcohol,” WHO Europe headlined in 2018. “Zero alcohol ...
