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Jennifer Moore Ballentine, executive director of the California State University Institute for Palliative Care. States are starting to extend palliative care coverage to Medicaid patients who aren't necessarily close to death.
Five other states — Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia — reportedly have only one abortion clinic.
In a statement, Teva said the settlement does not establish any wrongdoing on its part. “Teva has not contributed to the abuse of opioids in Oklahoma in any way.”
Patients in hospice are not expected to live long, usually six months or less. Hospice patients do receive palliative care, but you don’t have to be in hospice to be a palliative care patient.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says he's planning to run for a fourth term in 2022, which could make him among the longest-tenured chief executives in New York history, eclipsing his father, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
The ruling is a victory for law enforcement, which argued in favor of a bright line rule that officers could follow that would also defeat possible frivolous claims from defendants objecting to their arrest.
Georgia strips voting rights from people convicted of all felonies, from murder to drug possession, even though a straightforward reading of the law suggests not all felons deserve such punishment.
The first increase will be to $11 in October, up from the current minimum of $10.10 an hour, and the minimum wage will eventually reach $15 an hour in 2023.
The mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has issued a cease-and-desist order to a private group that raised millions to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Chicago's new mayor is the latest to carve out a position for a chief equity officer who focuses on racial and economic diversity and discrimination.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld part of an unusual Indiana abortion law that requires clinics to bury or cremate the remains of a fetus. The justices in a short opinion said the law did not violate a woman's right to choose abortion.
A game of chicken is underway between a pair of airports and the FAA.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to put on hold partisan gerrymandering cases from Ohio and Michigan, temporarily sparing Republican lawmakers in those states of the need to redraw congressional districts by the summer.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy.
In an emergency, government must convince people it knows best for them. That's easier said than done.
Older metros don’t grow the same way younger ones do. Why don’t we acknowledge that?
How can you build a great place? Expand the number of people who own it.
Coordinating commissions have fallen out of favor. It’s time to bring them back.
With falling ridership and scrapped expansion projects, urban transit faces an uncertain future.
Queens, N.Y., will soon join the list of places electing district attorneys who reject the tough-on-crime policies of the past. But their approach isn't always well-received by governors.
Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, a Democrat, talking about Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican.
State legislators who are Republican women, which represents a decline from before the 2018 midterm elections. Democratic women, by contrast, increased their numbers after November.
Embattled Secretary of State David Whitley -- whose office wrongly challenged the citizenship of thousands of Texas voters -- resigned Monday.
The eight-week ban will take effect in late August.
Oklahoma initially sued three large opioid manufacturers and their affiliated companies, but two of the groups have entered into settlement agreements and been dropped from the lawsuit.
The Education Department “continues to require eligible veterans to take affirmative steps to secure the loan forgiveness that is their statutory right,” the attorneys general wrote.
In their suit, the state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the rule will disrupt their longstanding labor arrangements and make it harder for home care professionals to work together to improve their jobs and better serve their elderly and disabled clients.
The surge of forms that landed in the months before Election Day was chaotic and consuming, according to officials in the state’s two largest counties.
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