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About Chelyen Davis:
Chelyen Davis is health reporter for The Free Lance-Star
White House holds mental health conference; Obama remarks
Today President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are hosting a conference on mental health issues, which a press release describes as “part of the Administration’s effort to launch a …more
June 3rd, 2013
Looking for docs/patients to talk about Medicaid
One aspect of the federal Affordable Care Act is a two-year payment increase for some doctors who take Medicaid patients. The idea is to encourage more doctors to accept Medicaid …more
May 16th, 2013
Kaiser posts exchange subsidy calculator online
Today the Kaiser Family Foundation has posted a tool to help you figure out if you’d be eligible for a health insurance subsidy through the health insurance exchange marketplaces when …more
May 7th, 2013
Hold released on Tavenner appointment
Kaiser Health News reports this afternoon that Sen. Tom Harkin has removed the hold he had placed on the nomination of Virginian Marilyn Tavenner to head the Centers for Medicare …more
April 26th, 2013
Mental health resources for children topic of Wednesday talk in Fredericksburg
On Wednesday evening, a representative from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will give a presentation on the group’s resources to help children with mental health issues. The group’s …more
April 24th, 2013
Let’s talk about Lyme
Recently we reported on a new state law related to potential false results of tests for Lyme disease (you can read that story here). But we’re interested in taking a …more
April 16th, 2013
National Healthcare Decisions day is today
Today is National Healthcare Decisions Day, part of an effort to highlight the importance of making decisions for end-of-life care. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Mary Washington Hospital …more
April 12th, 2013
New faces on the FLS health beat
I’m dusting off this blog to introduce myself. I’m Chelyen Davis, and I’m taking over (most of) the Free Lance-Star’s health and medicine beat. As you can see in the …more
March 5th, 2013
Goodbye, after 37 years
Once I asked my father to name the most important invention of his lifetime. My dad was a Minnesota farm boy who grew up during the Depression, served in Europe …more
February 21st, 2013
Police raid Stafford physician’s office, home as part of drug probe
A months-long investigation by police has uncovered evidence that one of the physician leaders at Stafford Hospital was so prolific in prescribing narcotics that she became known as a doctor …more
