healthcare providers
Posted Jul 1, 2022, 10:31 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Democratic leaders and candidates along with doctors had strong words for Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who said Wednesday that abortions are now outlawed in Arizona because a law that was first drafted during the Civil War is still on the books.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2022, 6:56 am
Tracy Abiaka
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court decision Friday to eliminate a constitutional right to an abortion has “unleashed chaos” for abortion providers in Arizona, where there is little agreement on where the law stands now. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2022, 6:19 am
Rachel Bluth
/Kaiser Health News
A wave of health care providers are getting licensed in multiple states so they can use telemedicine and mail-order pharmacies to help more women get medication abortions - but they’re increasingly being stymied by state regulations. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 6:16 am
Molly Hudson
/Cronkite News
Arizonans who have had COVID-19 shouldn’t count on immunity from the highly contagious Omicron variant - which continues to spread in the state - as demands on health care workers remain high and staffing remains a huge issue in emergency rooms.... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 1:05 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court gutted the Biden administration's pandemic-response strategy Thursday in a split decision - granting a stay of the vaccine-or-test mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - that puts a vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses on ice. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 10, 2021, 7:42 am
Rose Wagner
/Courthouse News Service
In a unique solution to avoid a default on the country’s debt, the Senate approved a bipartisan plan Thursday that would allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling without any support from the GOP. ... Read more»
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Posted Jan 5, 2021, 11:11 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Hundreds of cars came and went at a steady pace on Dec. 31 through the multiple lanes set up at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The state has been looking to speed up the rollout of the vaccine and get the 314,000 doses it has received so far into distribution.... Read more»
Posted Dec 11, 2020, 12:14 am
Caroline Chen, Lisa Song/ProPublica
The best way to help our medical workers isn’t to stand at windows cheering or to give them thank-you water bottles. It’s to stay out of their ERs and ICUs by keeping ourselves and our neighbors safe.... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2020, 11:12 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Three Arizona correctional facilities all have high ratings for lack of access to health care and advocacy groups in the state are concerned the situation will worsen during the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more»
Posted Apr 21, 2020, 1:51 pm
Phil Galewitz
/Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News spoke to several disease detectives about what reaching the peak level of cases means and under what conditions people can go back to work and school without fear of getting infected. Here’s what they said.... Read more»
Posted Apr 3, 2020, 1:38 pm
Wissam Melhem
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona ranked 48 in health care workers per capita, slightly ahead of California and Nevada, according to a new report by Self Financial.... Read more»
Posted Mar 31, 2020, 1:24 pm
Christopher Scragg
/Cronkite News
Arizona hospitals are rationing and ordering workers to reuse protective equipment like masks, gowns and eyewear in an attempt to head off shortages expected with the surge in COVID-19 patients in the state.... Read more»
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Posted Mar 17, 2020, 9:58 am
Brandi Buchman
/Courthouse News
Quibbling over legislative language in an emergency relief package for Americans impacted by the coronavirus came to an end in the House of Representatives on Monday night, putting finalization of the multibillion-dollar aid deal squarely in the Senate’s court.... Read more»
Posted Oct 5, 2013, 12:37 pm
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Both sides in the great Obamacare debate are distorting the facts about premium rates on the health exchanges to make their case for or against the law.... Read more»
Posted Nov 10, 2010, 11:22 am
Marian Wang
/ProPublica
About 84 percent of doctors in a nationwide survey reported having some type of relationship with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2009, according to a study published in the latest Archives of Internal Medicine.... Read more»