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Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
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Hawaii Worst State for Nurses
By Wallet Hub @ 12:00 PM :: 145 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii ranks 47th in health care facilities per capita ....
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
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Hawaii Least Drug Problem in USA
By Wallet Hub @ 5:24 AM :: 158 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... but Hawaii has the 5th-highest proportion of teenagers offered drugs on school grounds ....
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
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SB1035: Legislature Passes Bill to Exempt Medical Care from GE Tax
By News Release @ 4:23 AM :: 166 Views :: Health Care, Military, Taxes
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... exempts hospitals, infirmaries, medical clinics, health care facilities, pharmacies, and medical and dental providers from General Excise Tax (GET) on goods or services that are reimbursed through Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE ....
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 |
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Legislature on Brink of Advancing Brighter Future
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:24 PM :: 507 Views :: Development, Health Care, Taxes
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... at least five bills strongly supported by my colleagues and I at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii were passed out of conference committees and now will go for final votes at the House and Senate floor sessions ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Hawaii Window Open: Student loan debt repayment for health professionals
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 497 Views :: Health Care
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... The application deadline for the second cohort of this groundbreaking program is July 1, 2024 ....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
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Let’s end embarrassing tax on medical services
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:26 PM :: 708 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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... the GET makes practicing in Hawaii so financially challenging, causing many Hawaii doctors to retire or move away ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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How does Hawai‘i’s economic geography affect its healthcare industry?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 478 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... The state’s high cost of living likely compounds these problems by hindering the recruitment of healthcare professionals ....
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 |
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Waipahu High students, Hawai‘i Pacific Health doctors and nurses to work side by side in new Academic Health Center
By News Release @ 5:16 PM :: 788 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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... more than 500 health academy students who will receive hands-on training from Hawai‘i Pacific Health physicians and medical professionals to support the community clinic ....
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Saturday, April 6, 2024 |
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How to Nurse Hawaii Back to Good Health
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:59 PM :: 996 Views :: Health Care
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... State lawmakers took an important first step last year by passing legislation that allowed Hawaii to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact ....
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Saturday, April 6, 2024 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 5:09 PM :: 1124 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life, Religion, Drugs
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... From this point on, there will be no more public input via hearings. ...
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Sunday, March 31, 2024 |
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GET on Health Care, Revisited
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1259 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... HB 1675: GET exemption for medical services paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE ....
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Monday, March 25, 2024 |
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Leaked WPATH Files Expose Medical Malpractice at Global Transgender Healthcare Authority
By News Release @ 6:24 AM :: 1580 Views :: Ethics, Health Care
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... The files, which were leaked from within the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), were published by the US-based think tank Environmental Progress ....
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 9:24 PM :: 1441 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life, Drugs
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... marijuana, abortion, parental rights ....
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Friday, March 22, 2024 |
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Hawaii -- Most Affordable State For Healthcare
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 AM :: 1433 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii boasts the lowest percentages and costs in several key metrics ....
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Monday, March 18, 2024 |
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Hawaii Worst State for Doctors
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 PM :: 1599 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... from the average annual wage of physicians to the number of hospitals per capita to the quality of the public hospital system ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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Grassroot Institute Bills on the Move in the Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:56 AM :: 1338 Views :: Development, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... 2024 Legislature resumes session and Grassroot Institute is on the case ....
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 |
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HB2079 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 7:09 PM :: 8969 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” ....
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By News Release @ 3:21 AM :: 1446 Views :: Family, Health Care, Religion, Drugs
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... Final House Vote on Minor Access to Gender Affirmation Care ....
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Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
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HB1675: No GE Tax on Medical Services
By Video @ 3:40 AM :: 1464 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
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... supporting HB 1675 as the first step in getting rid of GET for medical services ....
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Monday, March 4, 2024 |
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State Hospital pretends to make changes in wake of slaying of staffer
By News Release @ 12:59 PM :: 1264 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... DOH conducted a full safety and security review of the State Operated Specialized Residential Program (SOSRP) and Hawai‘i State Hospital (HSH) facilities ....
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024 |
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Unlicensed Midwives Sue State
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 1441 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... there were no professional licenses in Hawaii before Captain Cook arrived, therefore unlicensed midwifery is 'indigenous' ....
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Monday, February 26, 2024 |
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Reports show assisted suicide continues to grow in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 1446 Views :: Health Care, Life
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... 197 prescriptions have been written for death-inducing drugs in Hawaii since the passage of the state’s “medical aid in dying” law in 2019 ....
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
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Executive Order: Hawaii is a 'Trauma-Informed' State
By News Release @ 1:25 AM :: 1483 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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... first, Green's task force will seek out 'traumatized' State employees ....
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
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DoH: Exposing tobacco marketing to Hawai‘i’s youth
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 1196 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... The tobacco industry spends an estimated $22 million on marketing in Hawaiʻi each year costing the state $611 million in annual health care costs, $1.1 billion in lost productivity, and nearly $1,000 per household in state and federal tax burden ....
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 |
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Monday, February 5, 2024 |
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Court: HMSA Physician Contracts “oppressive, unconscionable, and unenforceable”
By Andrew Walden @ 7:48 PM :: 3828 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... In a February 2, 2024 Order, 3rd Circuit Judge Robert D S Kim has voided HMSA, HMSA Medicare, and Quest ‘Participating Physician Agreements’ ....
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Saturday, February 3, 2024 |
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Alaska and Hawaii Delegations Seek Medicare Reimbursement Flexibility for Rural Hospitals
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 1139 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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... to increase the amount that hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii can be reimbursed by Medicare to perform outpatient procedures for enrolled seniors ....
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 |
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18 Years Later State Wins Dannenberg EUTF Suit
By News Release @ 2:38 PM :: 1332 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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... contending that the EUTF had unconstitutionally diminished accrued retiree health benefits under Article XVI, Section 2 of the Hawai‘i Constitution ....
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 |
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Audit Exposes Widespread Payroll Cheating at State Hospital
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 7:57 PM :: 1775 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Labor
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"...staff’s intentional attempts to inflate their pay...."
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Friday, January 26, 2024 |
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Lung Association: Hawai‘i Earns Mixed Grades for Tobacco Control Policies
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 1112 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... American Lung Association “State of Tobacco Control” report releases Hawai‘i grades for tobacco control policies, outlines steps to reduce burden of tobacco ....
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bill Would Legalize Raw Milk Sales
By News Release @ 1:23 PM :: 1171 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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... Passage into law would take an important step toward further rejecting a federal prohibition scheme in practice and effect ....
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024 |
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$4.5M: The Real Cost of Smoking in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 1:06 PM :: 1108 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii 8th highest cost of smoking ....
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 |
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EMS lost $33M after failing to bill patients?
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 1485 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... City and County of Honolulu had nearly a year to prepare for the July 1, 2022 handover, but somehow didn’t get the billing contract established ....
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Friday, December 22, 2023 |
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State Pays Down Student Debt for 492 Medics
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 1224 Views :: Health Care
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... The first application window opened on September 9, 2023 and closed on October 2, 2023. On Wednesday, just in time for Christmas, 492 awardees received acceptance letters. ....
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Saturday, December 16, 2023 |
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Loss of $192M? Honolulu EMS forgot to bill ambulance patients for over a year
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 2093 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... EMS neglected to bill patients for ambulance rides starting July 1, 2022 ....
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 |
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PBS Wokesters Look Out for Hawaii’s ‘Local Menstruators’
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 AM :: 1492 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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... a story that fused the tax-funded outlet’s search for niche necessities that require government funding with its ongoing attempt to defy science and pretend humans other than biological women get periods ....
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 |
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Hawaii to join more medical licensure compacts?
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:58 PM :: 1100 Views :: Health Care, Military
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... green-light compacts for other medical professionals, such as nurses, physical and occupational therapists, emergency medical service personnel, psychologists, audiologists ....
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Sunday, November 26, 2023 |
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Medical certificate-of-need laws have little to do with actual need
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:38 AM :: 1202 Views :: Health Care
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... Prospective healthcare providers need state permission before they can build new hospitals or offer other services in Hawaii ....
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Friday, November 17, 2023 |
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Hawaii Worst State for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 1397 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... American Lung Association’s ‘State of Lung Cancer’ report reveals improvement in survival rate for people of color, examines toll of lung cancer state-by-state ....
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Friday, November 17, 2023 |
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Honolulu 'Equality' Score Jumps with Transgender 'Health' Benefits
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 1466 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care, Police
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... Honolulu achieved additional points in this year’s rankings for having transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits ....
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Saturday, November 11, 2023 |
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‘CON’ laws hindering access to better Hawaii healthcare
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:31 AM :: 1476 Views :: Health Care
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... repealing CON laws in Hawaii could result in “11 more hospitals, including four more rural hospitals [and] two more ambulatory surgical centers” ....
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 |
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Zoom-ing in on Better Healthcare
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:02 PM :: 1496 Views :: Health Care
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... Could broader use of telehealth improve the quality of healthcare in Hawaii? ....
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 |
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Queens to Buy Wahiawa Hospital
By News Release @ 1:57 AM :: 1636 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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... Queen’s to formalize the purchase of WGH scheduled for March 31, 2024 ....
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Saturday, November 4, 2023 |
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DoH Hosts Healthy Hawaiʻi Strategic Plan 2030 Summit
By News Release @ 1:00 AM :: 1503 Views :: Health Care, COVID-19
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... DOH convened more than 250 stakeholders, advocates, and visionaries across the state to discuss the Healthy Hawai‘i Strategic Plan 2030 ....
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Saturday, October 21, 2023 |
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Hawaii Health Department 'Commitment to Transgender Rights'
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 1704 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care
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... the statement denounces discrimination, including transphobia and transphobic action, which is recognized as a threat to public health ....
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 |
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A simple way to improve Hawaii healthcare
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:48 PM :: 1798 Views :: Health Care
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... now in a locked room at the Honolulu airport, waiting for state officials ....
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Thursday, October 12, 2023 |
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The Wrath of CON: Updating Hawaii’s Healthcare Policy
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:55 AM :: 1727 Views :: Health Care
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... Hawaii’s hospitals, walk-in clinics and other healthcare providers have been held back for decades by arcane regulations known as 'certificate of need' laws ....
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Thursday, October 5, 2023 |
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Hawaii AG Sues pharmacy benefit managers
By News Release @ 3:44 PM :: 1511 Views :: Health Care
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... The complaint alleges that the PBMs’ business practices have driven skyrocketing prices for brand-name prescription medications over the past decade ....
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023 |
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Hawaii AG Sues to Keep Feeding 'Gender Change' Drugs to Minors
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 1841 Views :: Family, Health Care
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... "surgeries that remove or add body parts associated with a given gender – such as genital removal or breast removal" and "treatments using puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the purpose of developing characteristics inconsistent with a child's sex." ....
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