Medicare is stronger than ever but cost-saving measures are at risk
This year, the Medicare enrollment period opened on Oct. 15, which means millions of seniors have begun selecting their coverage for 2024. As they enroll, it’s vital that seniors in Arizona know they will see lower healthcare and prescription drug costs thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law last year.
Arizona steps up to align existing cannabis laws with reality
There are some important movements afoot to bring cannabis into the mainstream and make the cannabis businesses easier to operate.
Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access
Verónica Cruz Sánchez watched something remarkable happen from the office of her women’s rights organization in Guanajuato, the capital city of one of this country’s most conservative Catholic states. Founder of Las Libres – “the free” in English – she had built an underground abortion-pill network in a country where having the procedure could have meant going to jail.
Goldwater Institute seeks FDA details on accessing untested drugs
The Goldwater Institute goes to court today in a bid to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to cough up details on how dying people can get access to unapproved medicines.
Arizona accused of skirting requirement in prison settlement
Attorneys who brought a class-action lawsuit over the quality of health care in Arizona's prisons said Friday that the state is trying to skirt a requirement in a settlement that mental health professionals see inmates who have recently been taken off psychotropic medications.