Health Care

Hawaii Steps Up Efforts To Track Monkeypox Cases CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

Hawaii Steps Up Efforts To Track Monkeypox Cases

A new dashboard will log confirmed cases and vaccination rates

Why Is Nomi Health Donating To Key Democrats In Blue State Hawaii After Giving Big To GOP? Iki Chan Wylie for USA TODAY

Why Is Nomi Health Donating To Key Democrats In Blue State Hawaii After Giving Big To GOP?

The Utah-based company contributed to the campaigns of six Democrats in Hawaii, including Josh Green and Sylvia Luke, the Democratic nominees for governor and lieutenant governor.

How Homeless People Have Weathered The Pandemic In Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

How Homeless People Have Weathered The Pandemic In Hawaii

Data collected from Hawaii and several other states shows that Covid-19 spread more slowly among homeless people compared with the general population.

Many Pacific Islander Patients Have To Move To Get Life-Saving Access To Dialysis Carlo Domingo/Civil Beat/2022

Many Pacific Islander Patients Have To Move To Get Life-Saving Access To Dialysis

One in five Indigenous Chamorros in the Northern Mariana Islands has diabetes, and the demand for dialysis is growing. But the only dialysis centers are on the capital island of Saipan.

Registration For The New Covid Booster Shot Is Already Underway Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

Registration For The New Covid Booster Shot Is Already Underway

After approval from the Food and Drug Administration and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the bivalent booster is “trickling” into Hawaii.

A New Hawaii Abortion Guide Seeks To Address Gaps In Care Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

A New Hawaii Abortion Guide Seeks To Address Gaps In Care

Advocates hope the guide will help clear up confusion over access to abortions in the islands — where it remains legal — after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

The Pandemic Vastly Expanded Health Care Access In This US Territory. That May End Soon Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat/2022

The Pandemic Vastly Expanded Health Care Access In This US Territory. That May End Soon

Patients who hadn’t sought health care in years flocked to clinics when a temporary pandemic program expanded Medicaid access to the commonwealth’s guest worker population.

The New 988 Mental Health Hotline Is Off To A Busy Start In Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

The New 988 Mental Health Hotline Is Off To A Busy Start In Hawaii

Hawaii CARES, which receives local calls from the 988 lifeline, now faces the challenge of efficiently connecting callers with in-person crisis mobile outreach.

UH Researcher Gets $2.8M To Help Prevent Vaping Among Rural Hawaiian Youth Flickr/vaping360.com

UH Researcher Gets $2.8M To Help Prevent Vaping Among Rural Hawaiian Youth

The initiative will include using social and print media campaigns in public and charter schools on the Big Island.

Hawaii Expands Access To Monkeypox Vaccine As Case Count Rises To 16 CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

Hawaii Expands Access To Monkeypox Vaccine As Case Count Rises To 16

The Department of Health said it has received about 2,800 doses of the Jynneos vaccine and more than 1,000 doses have been administered.