In rural areas, in particular, it can be hard to find alternatives for managing pain, as well as treatment for addiction.
The first respiratory illness appearing to be related to e-cigarette use has led a Hawaii minor to be hospitalized.
New research shows hula dancing is as strenuous as basketball and is particularly effective in preventing cardiovascular disease among Native Hawaiians.
The House Health Committee chairman thinks the state should confront big drug companies with price caps and potential legal action.
Doctors and hospitals work off a rating system. Why can’t rehabilitation programs?
Public health students are taught about traditional practices in order to provide more effective health care in Native Hawaiian and other underserved communities.
Some 30% of Hawaii’s homeless suffer from a serious mental illness.
The Healthcare Association of Hawaii’s first workforce assessment found vacancies at health care facilities for a wide variety of jobs from medical assistants to phlebotomists.
By the time the 2020 school year starts preschoolers, kindergarteners and seventh graders must receive an expanded set of vaccinations to prevent diseases and infections.
The House Health Committee chairman thinks the state should confront big drug companies with price caps and potential legal action.
Doctors and hospitals work off a rating system. Why can’t rehabilitation programs?
Public health students are taught about traditional practices in order to provide more effective health care in Native Hawaiian and other underserved communities.
Some 30% of Hawaii’s homeless suffer from a serious mental illness.
The Healthcare Association of Hawaii’s first workforce assessment found vacancies at health care facilities for a wide variety of jobs from medical assistants to phlebotomists.
By the time the 2020 school year starts preschoolers, kindergarteners and seventh graders must receive an expanded set of vaccinations to prevent diseases and infections.
The free questionnaire from the Hawaii Opioid Initiative is part of a state opioid awareness campaign.
Hawaii hasn’t had a human milk bank for mothers and infants in need since the 1980s.
The latest medical cannabis retail facility is located in Waikiki and passed its final onsite inspection this month.
The National Cancer Institute awarded an $8 million, six-year grant to the UH Cancer Center to increase cancer trials for Hawaii’s minority, rural and underserved patients.
An upcoming Trump administration policy would deny green cards to people who use public benefits like Medicaid. Local health care clinics are feeling the ripple effect.
The Hawaii Executive Office on Aging published a warning about genetic testing fraud, which targets Medicare beneficiaries across the nation.
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