Health Care

... people who promote sexual reassignment surgery “are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” ....

...requesting a waiver of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act that compromise the state’s existing Prepaid Health Care Act...

...Until recently, hospital labor on Maui was given exclusively to a public labor union. As a result, 70% of the budget was spent on employees....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

Field trials in Brazil are using a genetically modified form of the A. aegypti mosquito....

A federal judge refused the unions' request for an emergency stay in February, leading to Wednesday showdown in the Ninth Circuit....

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai....

...dozens of Hawaii County organic farmers are refusing access to State and County mosquito-eradication workers....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

Public-Private partnerships will provide medically frail homeless discharged from The Queen’s Medical Center with a safety net for short-term homecare and housing support....

...some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade....

The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex....

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."

...Oahu ranks best followed by Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Counties....

... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....

A post showing vegetarians and veggies tend to have significantly more mental disorders and health issues than meat-loving people has gone viral....

The legislation would enable terminally ill patients to access to medications and treatments not yet given final approval for use by the FDA....

...the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee, will give decision on  SB2956  Tuesday March 1....

... legislation that would enable medicine and medical device manufacturers to offer eligible terminally ill patients “investigational drugs” and “experimental treatments” ....

...Hawai‘i will focus on expanding Medicaid involvement in and support for the state’s housing and homelessness initiatives....

...Grassroot Institute Testifies in Support of CON Law Reform....

To date, recovery of the billions in wasted state exchange funds has been near non-existent, despite failed exchanges in Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Nevada costing taxpayers $733 million....

...Watchdog group expresses hope that there will be no more roadblocks to better patient care....

...allow manufacturers of “investigational” drugs and treatments to make such treatments available to eligible terminally ill patients....

Dr. Sarah Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health....

A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....

...Prohibits therapists from counteracting the effort of a child molester to turn your son gay....

...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....

The emergency proclamation will give the state access to the Major Disaster Fund, the option of waiving certain laws and regulations to expedite the outbreak response....

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Ige from floor of US House ....

...meanwhile Obama is seeking $1.8B in Zika funding....

This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....

...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....

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The recent rise in Hawaii's homeless population has highlighted the need for a better standard in involuntarily hospitalization.....

Only 4 days remain before final enrollment deadline for 2016 coverage....

... will anti-GMO activists block mosquito eradication efforts? ....

January 31 is the end of open enrollment....

...transferring the operation and management of the HHSC Maui Region health care facilities from the state to Kaiser Permanente....

To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not include totals for effectuated enrollments.....

...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....

A recently published study proposes a pact between the public health community and the vaping community to combat a shared enemy, Big Tobacco....

Med-QUEST Division did not properly plan for or implement the ACA....

...only 24 percent trust that the government will help them....

...the total number of lives covered through 2015 enrollment was 16,803. For the current 2016 open enrollment period preliminary reports indicate enrollments of approximately 12,500 lives....

Hawaii had the Sixth Lowest Rate of Youth Drug Overdose Death Rates, Rate has Doubled in Just Over a Decade....

...Hawaii Scored Five Out of 10 on Key Indicators Related to Preventing, Detecting, Diagnosing and Responding to Outbreaks....