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Will connecting residents to services turn around city’s long decline?

By Emmanuel Felton
Famously troubled East St. Louis is embracing an idea known as “collective impact.” The idea is to better connect residents to existing services.
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What we don’t know about short-term health insurance products

By Jackson Williams

Any day now, the Trump administration is expected to release a new regulation promoting short-term health insurance products as an alternative to coverage under the ACA. But some big problems remain.

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Washington State single payer initiative gets 100,000 signatures, but it's not enough to quality for the November ballot

By Linda Seltzer

Linda Seltzer
I-1600, a grass roots single payer health care initiative for Washington State, will not be on the ballot in November. Whole Washington, the sponsor of the initiative, collected more than 100,000 signatures on its petitions, falling short of the almost 260,000 required by state law.

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What can we do to combat the deadly effects of rising temps?

By Molly Peterson
Thanks to climate change, the health hazard posed by extreme heat is growing. And practical solutions aren't meeting the challenge so far.
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Q&A: How two aces investigated a high-profile transplant center — and had immediate impact

By Kathleen McGrory
Mike Hixenbaugh shares how he and Charlie Ornstein exposed the unusually high rate of deaths and complications at one of the country’s best known heart transplant programs.
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Why are Californians with sickle cell falling ‘into a black hole’?

By Momo Chang
“Children get the best care possible, no doubt,” says the head of the Sickle Disease Foundation of California. “It’s when that child becomes an adult — that’s when they fall into a black hole.”
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Can joining a city help this neighborhood become healthier?

By Steve Mencher
Local politicians have long tried to find ways to better serve residents of this poorer, unincorporated section of Sonoma. Two reporters are now asking whether annexation can improve health.
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Series puts new face on the opioid epidemic: Orange County seniors

By Jill Replogle
It was a vexing data riddle: Were opioids leading seniors to commit suicide? Or did they have major health problems that led them to take their lives?
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Can harm reduction save lives and improve health of drug users?

By Judith Mernit
Syringe exchanges and overdose kits aren’t always reaching poor and rural Californians, but advocates of the harm reducation approach are trying to make that happen.
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Doctors are burning out and trite ‘wellness’ measures aren’t helping

By Rusha Modi
Physician burnout is an intense, personal response to systemic problems bedeviling health care. The solution lies in restoring meaning and human connections to medicine.

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