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Amid Wildfire Trauma, L.A. County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees

KFF Health News

AccuWeather estimates the region will likely face more than $250 billion in economic losses from the blazes, surpassing the estimates from the state’s record-breaking 2020 wildfire season. “The pandemic made it worse. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived

KFF Health News

Colorado voters approved Proposition 122 in 2022 to legalize natural psychedelics, after Oregon voters in 2020 approved legalizing psilocybin for therapeutic use. . “You get discouraged in your practice because the current therapies are not enough for people,” Clark said. Learn more about KFF.

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Long-Covid Patients Are Frustrated That Federal Research Hasn’t Found New Treatments

KFF Health News

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with covid. Good Science Takes Time In December 2020, Congress appropriated $1.15 This article is from a partnership that includes NPR and KFF Health News. “My blood flow now sucks, so my hands and my feet are freezing. Learn more about KFF.

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Pharmacy benefit managers raised prices by over 1,000% on specialty drugs

Association of Health Care Journalists

Of the specialty generic drugs analyzed in this report and dispensed by the Big Three PBMs affiliated pharmacies for commercial (meaning employers) health plan members between 2020 and 2022, 63% were reimbursed at rates marked up by more than 100% over their estimated acquisition cost while 22% were marked up by more than 1,000%, the report showed.

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Watch: ‘Silence in Sikeston & The Effects of Racial Violence’

KFF Health News

9, explores the connections between a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting in a rural Missouri community — and what those killings say about the nation’s silencing of racial trauma. 16, explores the health effects of such trauma with mental health counselor Lekesha Davis. The first conversation, which aired Oct.

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A Toddler Got a Nasal Swab Test but Left Before Seeing a Doctor. The Bill was $445.

KFF Health News

Under the public health emergency declared in 2020 for the covid pandemic, insurance companies were required to pay for covid tests without copayments or cost sharing for patients. That requirement ended when the emergency declaration expired in May 2023. Now, it is often patients who foot the bill — and ER bills are notoriously high.

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The Pivot with Nashmia Khan

UNC Epidemiology Blog

In the long term, I’m seeking a balance between applied research and policy/program evaluation and dissemination. What brought you to public health? I graduated college in 2020 — what you’re thinking is true; graduating at the start of a pandemic wasn’t fun — and I took a job at the Yale School of Medicine.