Jake Harper appears in the following:
Price's Remarks On Opioid Treatment Were Unscientific And Damaging, Experts Say
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Nearly 700 experts signed a letter to HHS Secretary Tom Price asking that he correct remarks in which he called medication-assisted treatment for addiction "substituting one opioid for another."
Indiana's Claims About Its Medicaid Experiment Don't All Check Out
Friday, February 24, 2017
Indiana's health program for low-income people is experimental, and needs federal approval to continue. The state says its program is working, but some claims lack much-needed context.
Trump Picks Seema Verma To Run Medicare And Medicaid
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Seema Verma, a consultant who has been Vice President-elect Mike Pence's health policy adviser in Indiana, played a key role in the state's expansion of Medicaid.
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
Monday, October 17, 2016
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, 29-year-old journalist Jake Harper wonders if that's putting him and other men at risk.
Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Carfentanil, a potent variation on fentanyl, is being blamed for a wave of opioid overdoses. In Cincinnati, the coroner, crime lab and first responders are struggling to keep up.
Insurance Rules Can Hamper Recovery From Opioid Addiction
Friday, August 05, 2016
Medicaid and other health insurers require doctors to file time-consuming paperwork before allowing them to prescribe drugs that help people quit opioids. That delay fosters relapse, specialists say.
As Indiana Governor, Mike Pence's Health Policy Has Been Contentious
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Pence signed into law some of the tightest abortion rules in the U.S., and was slow to respond to Indiana's heroin and HIV crises, critics say. But he compromised with Obama to expand Medicaid.
Death Talk Is Cool At This Festival
Sunday, May 29, 2016
How to make thinking about death less somber? Hold a festival! Indianapolis did. Through art, film and book talks, residents explored everything from bucket lists to advance directives and cremation.
Medicaid Rules Can Thwart Immigrants Who Need Dialysis
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Carla used to get dialysis a couple of times a week at the public hospital in Indianapolis, Eskenazi Hospital. She would sit in a chair for hours as a machine took blood out of her arm, cleaned it and pumped it back into her body.
Then one day in 2014, ...
States Deny Pricey Hepatitis C Drugs To Most Medicaid Patients
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Effective treatments for hepatitis C cost as much as $95,000. Medicaid in many states, including Indiana, is mostly limiting the drugs' use to very advanced cases. ACLU of Indiana is suing the state.
Heroin, Opioid Abuse Put Extra Strain On U.S. Foster Care System
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Roughly 265,000 U.S. kids entered foster care last year — the highest number since 2008. Officials say the abuse of heroin or prescription painkillers by more parents is one reason for the increase.
Indiana's HIV Spike Prompts New Calls For Needle Exchanges Statewide
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Shane Avery practices family medicine in Scott County, Ind. In December, a patient came to his office who was pregnant, and an injection drug user.
After running some routine tests, Avery found out that she was positive for HIV. She was the second case he had seen in just a ...