Rachana Pradhan

When Hospital Cyberattacks Compromise Care, Not Just Data

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When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering. 鈥淲e鈥檝e started to think about these as public health issues and disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes,鈥 said Jeff Tully, a co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at the University of California at […]

Why Hospitals in Many States With Legal Abortion May Refuse To Perform Them

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Many states that tout themselves as protectors of reproductive health care, including California, Michigan and Pennsylvania, have little-noticed laws on the books protecting hospitals that refuse to provide it. The laws shield at least some hospitals from liability for not providing care they object to on religious grounds, leaving little recourse for patients. The providers 鈥 many of them […]

Millions of Dollars Flow From Pharma to Patient Advocacy Groups

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Pharma money is all over the place 鈥 in universities, companies doing continuing medical education for doctors and in prominent patient advocacy organizations that are household names across America. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy nonprofit, reports today that between 2010 and 2022, the drug industry鈥檚 main lobbying group and member companies provided at least $6 […]

Medicaid鈥檚 鈥楿nwinding鈥 Can Be Especially Perilous for Disabled People

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Earlier this year, Beverly Likens thought she鈥檇 done everything she needed to do to keep her Medicaid. Then came an unwelcome surprise: Ahead of surgery to treat chronic bleeding, the hospital said her insurance was inactive, jeopardizing her procedure. Likens had just been diagnosed with severe anemia and given a blood transfusion at the emergency room. 鈥淚 […]