Health Headlines for Monday, April 17
New state provision would cover fertility services for lower income women
New York Post
Gov. Cuomo and Albany lawmakers quietly added a controversial provision to the $151 billion state budget that allows taxpayer money to pay for fertility services for poor women.
Unexplained chest pain may signal higher heart risk
Reuters
Most people who complain to their general practitioner about first-time chest pain don’t get additional diagnostic testing to determine the cause, according to a recent UK study.
The Cost of Not Taking Your Medicine
New York Times
There is an out-of-control epidemic in the United States that costs more and affects more people than any disease Americans currently worry about.
For Malpractice Reform, Focus on Medicine First (Not Law)
New York Times
Congressional Republicans have recently revived efforts to overhaul malpractice laws, including capping certain kinds of suits at $250,000.
Too Clean for Our Children’s Good?
New York Times
When a toddler’s pacifier falls out of his mouth and onto the ground, does it get confiscated and boiled by anxious parents or just licked off and reinserted by the more casually inclined?