The Price of Pain Relief Examines a Doctor’s Battle and Debate
Howard Heit, a Fairfax pain and addiction specialist, charts his own past as a patient and his current role amid a national clash over opioid prescribing. The piece traces pain treatment challenges, patient needs, DEA concerns, and the tension between relief and misuse as doctors help shape guidelines and public policy.
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Marc Kaufman
Washington Post
Washington
Howard Heit
Hell
Fairfax
Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Justice Department
Heit
Pain Medicine
Helt
Egg banks offer fertility time machine for women in their thirties
Fertility clinics expand egg banking to women in their 30s seeking to safeguard future families. Procedures involve eight to ten days of injections, extraction of 10 to 15 eggs, freezing, and storage at Minnesota facilities. Early success rates around 20 percent with ongoing cost of about $6,000 plus $1 daily storage.
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Mr. Right
Mary Ramie Hinckley
Reproductive Science Center
San Francisco Bay Area
Hinckley
The
Society For
Minnesota
Kristin Ivani
Ivani
Health Notes on Sun Safety and SPF Guidelines
Advice from the American Academy of Dermatology covers sunscreen use for all skin tones including SPF 15 to 30, reapplication every 60 to 90 minutes, and after swimming. It emphasizes broad spectrum protection, UVA and UVB blockers, sunglasses, hats, shade, and UV protective clothing. Knight Ridder
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AIM High
The
American Academy of Dermatology
Public Citizen cites state medical board actions ranking
Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen's Health Research Group says most states fail to protect patients from doctors not practicing medicine safely, amid the nonprofit's annual ranking of disciplinary actions by state medical boards.
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Sidney Wolfe
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
Insurance gaps rise across income groups in 2005
A Commonwealth Fund biennial note shows high income adults earning $60 000 or more had higher uninsured rates in 2005 than 2001 rising from 4 to a higher share. Low income earners earning under $20 000 saw uninsured rates climb from 49 to a larger share, while moderate earners $20 000 to $34 999 shifted from 28 to a higher figure under the 2005 definition.
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Commonwealth Fund
Washington Post
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