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Studies: Marijuana use raises risk of heart attack, heart failure and stroke

November 6, 2023, 5:48pm Health

A pair of studies have found that older adults who use marijuana have more risk of heart attack or stroke when hospitalized than non-users and are more likely to develop heart failure if they are a daily user. Read story

Medicare expands the roster of available mental health professionals

November 6, 2023, 8:18am Health

Lynn Cooper was going through an awful time. After losing her job in 2019, she became deeply depressed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and her anxiety went through the roof. Then her cherished therapist — a marriage and family counselor — told Cooper she couldn’t see her once Cooper turned… Read story

A lockbox is held to show where ketamine is placed into while administered at the Duke Speciality Infusion Center, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Durham, N.C. Ketamine prescriptions have soared in recent years as an alternative to opioids for pain. But with little research on its effectiveness, some experts worry about the risks of overprescribing another powerful drug that carries risks of safety and abuse.

Mind-altering ketamine becomes new pain treatment, despite little research or regulation

A lockbox is held to show where ketamine is placed into while administered at the Duke Speciality Infusion Center, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Durham, N.C. Ketamine prescriptions have soared in recent years as an alternative to opioids for pain. But with little research on its effectiveness, some experts worry about the risks of overprescribing another powerful drug that carries risks of safety and abuse.

November 6, 2023, 7:35am Health

As U.S. doctors scale back their use of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a trendy psychedelic therapy. Read story

File - Pilots conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020. Aviation experts say the incident on Sunday in which an off-duty pilot, riding in a jump seat in a cockpit, tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can't go.

Risk a $250K fine or months without pay? Pilots have few reasons to get mental health help

File - Pilots conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020. Aviation experts say the incident on Sunday in which an off-duty pilot, riding in a jump seat in a cockpit, tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can't go.

November 6, 2023, 6:02am Business

Among the first things off-duty pilot Joseph Emerson is said to have told police after he was accused of trying to bring down a Horizon Air flight last month was that he’d been struggling with depression for six months and hadn’t slept in 40 hours. Read story

Lonnie Phillips, right, and his wife, Sandy, sift through their belongings stored at a friend's garage in Lone Tree, Colo., Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Since Sandy's daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed in a 2012 mass shooting in a movie theater, the pace of other mass killings only intensified. Instead of tighter gun laws, some states loosened them. Exhausted, disgusted and impoverished, the Phillipses recently moved to Mexico.

In the shadow of loss, a mother’s long search for happiness

Lonnie Phillips, right, and his wife, Sandy, sift through their belongings stored at a friend's garage in Lone Tree, Colo., Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Since Sandy's daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed in a 2012 mass shooting in a movie theater, the pace of other mass killings only intensified. Instead of tighter gun laws, some states loosened them. Exhausted, disgusted and impoverished, the Phillipses recently moved to Mexico.

November 5, 2023, 5:46am Health

There’s a look Sandy Phillips came to know each time she arrived somewhere a gunman had made famous. Her road trip through mass shooting sites went on for a decade and always seemed to have a new stop. When she reached it, she’d lock eyes with someone and see the… Read story

Dr. Laura LaFave chats with patient Mark Harris of Hopkins, Minnesota, about his glucose sensor results, which were recorded over time with equipment he wears 24 hours a day, during a routine appointment at the diabetes clinic at Hennepin Healthcare Clinic on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Minneapolis.

With diabetes on the rise, tech becomes crucial part of disease management

Dr. Laura LaFave chats with patient Mark Harris of Hopkins, Minnesota, about his glucose sensor results, which were recorded over time with equipment he wears 24 hours a day, during a routine appointment at the diabetes clinic at Hennepin Healthcare Clinic on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Minneapolis.

November 5, 2023, 5:21am Business

At the Hennepin Healthcare Center of Diabetes and Endocrinology in downtown Minneapolis, 66-year-old Mark Harris tries to recall his medication intake and sleep schedule from the past week. Read story

Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, right, introduces his son, and Democratic Gubernatorial candidate for re-election Andy Beshear during a stop of his statewide bus tour in Richmond, Ky., Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D.

Gubernatorial candidates quarrel over glory for winning opioid settlements

Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, right, introduces his son, and Democratic Gubernatorial candidate for re-election Andy Beshear during a stop of his statewide bus tour in Richmond, Ky., Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D.

November 4, 2023, 6:02am Health

Opioid settlement cash is not inherently political. It’s not the result of a law passed by Congress nor an edit to the state budget. It’s not taxpayer money. Rather, it’s coming from health care companies that were sued for fueling the opioid crisis with prescription painkillers. Read story

Hank Azaria remembers Matthew Perry, his ‘first friend’

November 4, 2023, 5:04am Entertainment

Matthew Perry’s former “Friends” co-star Hank Azaria shared a touching video message about his relationship with the five-time Emmy nominee on Sunday, following the news of Perry’s death on Saturday. Read story

GOP states embrace Uber, Lyft to take low-income patients to medical appointments

November 4, 2023, 5:00am Health

This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments. Read story

A person signs in, center, as Jesse Johnson of the Family Resource Center, right, waits for client Tyler Baker to complete a random drug test at the Hancock County Adult Probation office in Findlay, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Experts say establishing peer support programs to help people in recovery is one way communities should consider using money from settling lawsuits with the drug industry over the toll of opioids.

As billions roll in to fight the US opioid epidemic, one county shows how recovery can work

A person signs in, center, as Jesse Johnson of the Family Resource Center, right, waits for client Tyler Baker to complete a random drug test at the Hancock County Adult Probation office in Findlay, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Experts say establishing peer support programs to help people in recovery is one way communities should consider using money from settling lawsuits with the drug industry over the toll of opioids.

November 3, 2023, 8:09am Health

Communities ravaged by America’s opioid epidemic are starting to get their share of a $50 billion pie from legal settlements. Read story