NewYorkTimes Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress cravings for meth and other stimulants. As use soars, hundreds of clinics are trying a radically different approach. View original article Contributor: Jan Hoffman and Greta Rybus
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. View original article Contributor: Jordan Rau and Irena Hwang
Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get. View original article Contributor: Jordan Rau
Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears. View original article Contributor: Stephanie Nolen
The task force recommends which screenings and other preventive health measures must be covered by insurance. View original article Contributor: Andrew Jacobs
Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments. View original article Contributor: Azeen Ghorayshi and Glenn Thrush
Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown. View original article Contributor: Ellen Barry
The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid. View original article Contributor: Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
On the road with a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer that crisscrosses West Virginia, saving lives. View original article Contributor: Kristian Thacker and Simar Bajaj
New restrictions on Covid shots run counter to scientific evidence, the groups said. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli