healthcare

AZ's Health Improving Slightly

Shelley Smithson — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:26:26 +0000

When it comes to overall health, Arizona fared a little better this year in the America’s Health Rankings survey of 50 states.

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to be Chosen Tuesday

Howard Fischer — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:31:03 +0000

State health officials will award the first certificates Tuesday to sell medical marijuana.

Clinic Brings Schools Healthcare on Wheels

Sierra Eckert — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:59:00 +0000

As students head back to school, yellow buses are going to become a common sight again. But this fall, buses won’t be ferrying just students.

North Country Healthcare has just launched a new mobile clinic in a bus.

The clinic will bring primary healthcare to elementary schools in Flagstaff.

Arizona Public Radio’s Sierra Eckert has this story…

A bright orange Frelightner bus sits outside Killip Elementary school in Flagstaff.

But, it’s not full of backpacks and lunchboxes.

It’s a mobile health clinic.

Planned Parenthood Sues to Stop New Funding Law

Howard Fischer — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:37:01 +0000

Planned Parenthood filed suit Monday to block a new abortion law scheduled to take effect next month.

AZ's GOP Congressmen Vote to Repeal Affordable Care Act

Matt Laslo — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:57:52 +0000

Arizona’s U-S House lawmakers voted along party lines in another Republican attempt to repeal the nation’s health care law. The Democrats accuse the G-O-P of breaking their promise to replace the law, not merely repeal it.

Hours after the Supreme Court upheld the health law Republicans were preparing for the repeal vote. By some counts it’s the thirty first time the House has voted to repeal all or part of the law. Arizona Democrat Raul Grijalva says the G-O-P is just trying to score political points while avoiding any attempt to reform the system.

Business Prof Says Health Care Law Won't Help

Nick Blumberg — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:24:17 +0000

The U-S Supreme Court Thursday upheld the Affordable Care Act championed by President Barack Obama. But how could the ruling affect the health care industry and the state of Arizona.

Affordable Care Act May Fill Rural Clinics

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:15:43 +0000

A rural clinic in Northern Arizona is bracing for an influx of patients once the details of today’s Supreme Court ruling on healthcare shake out. Non-profit community health centers have long filled in the gaps of the nation’s health system by taking care of uninsured or underinsured patients.

Arizona Saw Largest Decrease in Teen Birth Rate in Nation.

Mark Bevis — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:33:26 +0000

New Federal data show the nation's teen birthrate is at historic lows.

And Arizona saw the largest decline in the country from 2007 to 2010.

In those 4 years, Arizona's birthrate for girls, aged 15 to 19, fell 29 percent.

Brady Hamilton put the report together for the National Center for Health Statistics.

But he says the states decline in teen birthrates is only part of the story.