State Looks To Update Cancer Plan
Wyoming residents are being asked to discuss ways cancer can be better detected and treated at a meeting today in Casper. Julie Tarbuck oversees Wyoming’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Program. Tarbuck...
View ArticleWyoming Ranks 16th For Child Well-Being, But 45th For Child Health
Wyoming has improved in national child well-being rankings over the past year, but still ranks very low when it comes to child health. That’s according the Kids Count Data Book released Tuesday by the...
View ArticleGonorrhea Cases Double
Wyoming health officials say they are seeing a gonorrhea outbreak. They had 61 reported cases earlier this month compared to a total of 31 last year. Half of the cases involve people in their 20’s. The...
View ArticleWINhealth To Leave Wyoming
The health insurance company WINhealth will be pulling out of Wyoming. A variety of financial difficulties including low reimbursement via the Affordable Care Act is causing the company to leave...
View ArticleWyoming Lawmakers Try To Tank Obamacare... Again
Last night the U.S. Senate voted to repeal so-called Obamacare – no, don’t tune out. We know Republicans have done that dozens of times, but this time is different, or so they say. This ‘repeal’ is...
View ArticleWyomingites Urged To Sign Up For Health Insurance
Tuesday is an important date for those hoping to sign up for health insurance. Enrollment has been underway since November for those who purchase health care coverage through the federal marketplace...
View ArticleWithout Medicaid Expansion Lawmakers Will Consider Some Alternative Reforms
Legislators have been talking about reforming health care in the state for at least 25 years. Access to health care providers is difficult, finding affordable health care is a challenge, and so after...
View ArticleWyoming's Board of Medicine Given Low Marks For Keeping Patients Informed
A national magazine has given Wyoming’s Board of Medicine low marks for failing to provide easy access to the disciplinary records of doctors in the state. Wyoming scored 27 out of a possible 100...
View ArticleEmail Breach At Wyoming Medical Center
This February, the email accounts of two Wyoming Medical Center employees were compromised in a phishing scam. A phishing scam is an email that looks like it came from a credible source, and tricks the...
View ArticleNative Health Conference Brings Together Western And Traditional Healers
A conference next week in Riverton will explore the enormous health gap on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The life expectancy of Native Americans there is only 52 years old, compared to the...
View ArticleNorthern Arapaho Tribe Takes Over Its Health Clinic
Northern Arapaho officials on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming say they've experienced some bumps since the tribe took over management of their federal health clinic earlier this year. The...
View ArticleRecovery Anthology Created To Share Recovery Movement Nationwide
Earlier this month, authors in a new anthology on drug and alcohol recovery in Wyoming presented their work in Cheyenne. Laura Griffith is the founder of Recover Wyoming in Cheyenne and a former...
View ArticleHealth Coalition Works To Educate Employers, Patients
As the January 31 deadline approaches to sign up for health insurance under the government’s health care marketplace, Senate Republicans are beginning plans to repeal the law that created that program....
View ArticleWyoming Senators Look To Dump The ACA
Wyoming's two senators are set to play a key role in the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Senate Republicans, led by Senator Mike Enzi took their first steps towards repealing the...
View ArticleDespite GOP Concerns, Wyoming Delegation Still Wants To Repeal And Replace
The Republican Party hates so-called Obamacare, but when it comes to replacing the bill the party is divided over how to change the health care system. You’ve heard about the angry protests at...
View ArticleACA Fixes Could Have Hurt Wyoming Consumers
Despite some recent setbacks, Congress will eventually move to either replace or make serious changes to the affordable care act. Wyoming’s congressional delegation says that should help reduce...
View ArticleOverweight And Obesity Just Behind Tobacco In Cancer Risk
The Wyoming Primary Care Annual Conference takes place in Casper May 3 - 5, and will bring together health care providers from around the state. Chief Cancer Control Officer for the American Cancer...
View ArticleWyoming Lawmakers Still Working On Trumpcare
Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney helped her party pass a historic bill to unwind Obamacare, but its chances of passage in the Senate remain far from certain. After House Republicans passed their bill...
View ArticleAffordable Reproductive Health Available In Wyoming, But Limited
Following the presidential election, family planning centers in Wyoming experienced a sharp increase in women seeking long-term contraceptives. Recently, that’s begun to slow down. Now, concern from...
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