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Health Beat: Pharmaceutical Companies Are Ripping Off Americans Flikr.com

Health Beat: Pharmaceutical Companies Are Ripping Off Americans

You may get out of the pharmacy with pills in hand and money still in your wallet, but the high cost of medication will get you in the end.

If You’re Poor In Hawaii, A Visit To The Dentist Is A Luxury Cory Lum/Civil Beat

If You’re Poor In Hawaii, A Visit To The Dentist Is A Luxury

With no state funding for most adult dental care, thousands of people go to emergency rooms seeking relief from cavities and other problems.

Health Beat: Yes, Patients Can Be Trusted With A First Look At Test Results Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Health Beat: Yes, Patients Can Be Trusted With A First Look At Test Results

Technology makes medical information available faster these days, but should it be accessible to patients without a doctor’s explanation?

How Primary Care Docs Are Learning To Treat Mental Illness Cory Lum/Civil Beat

How Primary Care Docs Are Learning To Treat Mental Illness

ECHO Hawaii, a new digital learning program, connects psychiatric experts with local doctors.

Health Beat: Marijuana Could Be Opioid Alternative — But Feds Just Say No Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Health Beat: Marijuana Could Be Opioid Alternative — But Feds Just Say No

As we desperately seek alternatives to addictive painkillers, a federal ban on research is obstructing one promising option.

New Dialysis Clinics Finally Open Courtney Teague/Civil Beat/2018

New Dialysis Clinics Finally Open

The facilities have been mainly idle for years while waiting for state inspections.

Health Beat: Really? You Need A Doctor’s Note To Go Back To Work? Getty Images/iStockphoto

Health Beat: Really? You Need A Doctor’s Note To Go Back To Work?

Employers waste money requiring their workers to have physicians verify that they were legitimately sick and have now recovered.

Health Beat: Bring Back The Mental Hospitals Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2014

Health Beat: Bring Back The Mental Hospitals

Most of them were shut down in favor of community-based services, but that has proven to be a colossal failure.

Trump Plan Would Cost Planned Parenthood In Hawaii $830,000 Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat/2017

Trump Plan Would Cost Planned Parenthood In Hawaii $830,000

A rule change proposes to halt all federal funding to health care organizations that provide abortions.

Health Beat: Beware Of This Dicey New Approach To Experimental Drugs Flickr.com

Health Beat: Beware Of This Dicey New Approach To Experimental Drugs

There already was a well-regulated program in place, but new federal legislation that just took effect raises many questions.