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Crisis describes North Carolina’s mental health system. It is harder to access mental health care here than most other states, and that affects everyone — particularly the most vulnerable. Like inmates who are too sick to stand trial. They often wait months in custody for the treatment they need just to be well enough to go to court.

State prisons say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. But several systems have figured out the math.

More than 1,000 incarcerated people died from hepatitis C-related complications in the six years after a cure hit the market.

The American Medical Association has added its voice in support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed on December 30. The AMA has urged the Supreme Court to reject recent challenges and preserve the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 vaccination and testing for large

Copy In 2006, Randy Lavespere, a Louisiana doctor, was convicted of buying $8,000 of methamphetamine in a Home Depot parking lot with intent to distribute. He served two years in prison, and his medical license was revoked. But even though he had been convicted of a felony and barred from practicing medicine in most circumstances, he was allowed to treat patients in at least one setting: Louisiana state prisons. In November 2009, just one month after the Louisiana State Medical Board reinst...

“The stakes are extremely high,” says Renaldo Hudson, who was recently released from the Illinois department of corrections after 37 years of incarceration. “Most states do not have death sentences. But being incarcerated can be a death sentence if you die inside. They’re putting people in body bags.” On most days of the pandemic, the largest Covid-19 outbreaks in this country have been in prisons and jails. In December, the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice found t...

Panel is set to recommend new guidelines for vaccine rollout this weekend Members have signaled they will prioritize essential workers over the elderly   UPenn professor Harald Schmidt explained, older populations are whiter  Remarks drew backlash, but Schmidt denied favoring race-only prioritization  He also argues that older people can more easily isolate than essential workers CDC director favors vaccinating those over 70 living with younger people   Ultimately, each state will decide...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? (AP Photo/David ...

Older people are whiter: Ivy League profs logic in vaccine rollout Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com and Associated Press © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The debate over who should receive COVID-19 vaccines next has intensified following suggestions that the elderly should be de-prioritized because they are more likely to be white. Older populations are whiter, explained Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, in an in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Deciding that health care workers and nursing home residents should be first in line for the initial, limited supplies of COVID-19 shots wasnt that hard a call. Now U.S. health officials have to determine who should be next. How high a priority, for example, should senior citizens, teachers, transit workers and supermarket employees get in the next few months as more vaccine becomes available? A federal panel of vaccination experts takes up that question at an emergency meetin...