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Category: Health

Posted inNews, Health

Drug overdose deaths in Alaska jump 38.68% in a year as nationwide rate drops 14%

Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire November 15, 2024November 15, 2024
Signs posted on March 31, 2021, direct visitors to COVID-19 testing sites on the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium campus in Anchorage. Average life expectancy in Alaska declined that year more than in any other U.S. state, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Nationally, life expectancy declined, a trend driven by COVID-19 but also by drug overdoses, health experts say. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Posted inNews, Health

Alaska’s life-expectancy drop was biggest among all states in pandemic year of 2021, CDC says

Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon September 30, 2024September 30, 2024
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is SEARHC hosting a community baby shower and health fair on September 21 at the Chilkat Center for the Arts in Haines. (Courtesy/SEARHC)
Posted inHealth, Local News

Bumps and babies: community baby shower open to all in Haines

by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News September 20, 2024September 22, 2024
(Courtesy/Bartlett Regional Hospital) Rainforest Recover Center, a high-intensity residential substance abuse treatment facility, is closing next Tuesday, according to an announcement by Bartlett Regional Hospital.
Posted inNews, Health, Southeast News

Juneau’s Rainforest Recovery Center closing in a week, to surprise of local leaders

Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire September 17, 2024September 17, 2024
An illustration of Bordetella pertussis
Posted inLocal News, News, Health

Rising pertussis case numbers in Alaska prompt warnings and prevention recommendations

Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon August 22, 2024August 22, 2024
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium officials, state lawmakers and the director of the Indian Health Service dig into dirt on Wednesday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the hospital's $257 million emergency department expansion. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Posted inNews, Health

Expansion of Alaska Native Medical Center emergency department is underway

Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon August 18, 2024August 29, 2024
Posted inNews, Health

Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts

Nada Hassanein -Stateline by Nada Hassanein -Stateline June 11, 2024December 2, 2024
Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau is looking to cut or downsize six of what it calls "non-core" programs to stabilize its finances. Those include programs to treat drug addiction, autism therapy and hospice. (File photo/Juneau Empire)
Posted inNews, Health, Southeast News

Juneau’s hospital looking at cutting or downsizing programs to stabilize finances

Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire by Mark Sabbatini - Juneau Empire June 4, 2024June 4, 2024
A northern red-backed vole scampers through a forested area of the Kenai Peninsula. These small mammals, found in almost all parts of Alaska, are known carriers of the virus that causes the disease being renamed borealpox. The borealpox virus -- known up to now as the Alaskapox virus -- appears to be more widespread in the environment than previously understood. (Photo by Colin Canturbury/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Posted inNews, Health

Alaskapox no more: Newly discovered disease and virus is to be called ‘borealpox’

Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - Alaska Beacon March 31, 2024October 14, 2024
In its early years, GoFundMe funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now it has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares. (Eric Harkleroad /KFF HEALTH NEWS)
Posted inNews, Health

GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News by Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News March 8, 2024September 11, 2024

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