In other state news, the Florida legislature considers a plan to crack down on pain clinics that are a source of illegal drugs and a measure to curb foster children's use of psychiatric drugs, and a New York judge orders the city to move thousands of people with mental illness to new homes.
(Daily Report) Mar 03
Women are saying they face roadblocks to care when they seek treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals, even as they return in record numbers from battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News reports.
(Daily Report) Mar 03
This week's research roundup includes reports from Health Affairs, the Institute of Medicine, the Urban Insitute, the Center for Studying Health Systems Change, UCLA, the Archives of Surgery, PLoS Medicine and George Washington University.
(Daily Report) Feb 19
States struggle with strapped budgets and Medicaid cuts.
(Daily Report) Feb 16
States tackle several health care policy issues including the creation of a health-insurance coop in Ohio and cuts in mental health funding in Virginia.
(Daily Report) Feb 16
Today's collection of opinions and editorials.
(Daily Report) Feb 12
Today's research roundup features studies from RAND and the journals Health Affairs, JAMA, Cancer, Hormones and Cancer and Journal of Traumatic Stress.
(Daily Report) Feb 12
Detained youth in New York lack coordinated mental health care and an overseer to ensure such coordination.
(Daily Report) Feb 11
Proposed changes for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include new terminology.
(Daily Report) Feb 10
Today, we feature opinions and editorials on preventable medical errors, GOP ideas for health reform and chicken soup for the legislative soul.
(Daily Report) Feb 10