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US to Cover HIV Prevention Drugs for Older Americans to Stem Spread of the Virus
A proposed federal policy aims to protect older Americans from contracting HIV by offering free preventive medication, the latest effort to catch up to much of Europe and Africa in stemming the spread...
View ArticleHow Lawmakers in Texas and Florida Undermine Covid Vaccination Efforts
Katherine Wells wants to urge her Lubbock, Texas, community to get vaccinated against covid-19. “That could really save people from severe illness,” said Wells, the city’s public health director. But...
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Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia, at home in Seattle. She used to...
View ArticlePrevención del VIH: proponen que Medicare cubra PrEP para adultos mayores
La propuesta de una nueva norma federal tiene como objetivo proteger a estadounidenses mayores de contraer el VIH ofreciendo medicamentos preventivos gratuitos, el más reciente esfuerzo para alcanzar...
View ArticleLegisladores de Texas, Florida y otros estados socavan esfuerzos de...
Katherine Wells quiere pedirle a su comunidad de Lubbock, Texas, que se vacune contra covid. “Eso podría salvar a muchas personas de enfermarse gravemente”, afirmó Wells, directora de salud pública de...
View ArticleWatch: A Nation in Transition
CBS Reports’ “A Nation in Transition” follows trans youth from three states where lawmakers have recently debated policies that would directly affect their lives: California, Tennessee, and Texas....
View ArticleEstrategia de Trump y sus adversarios de campaña: desinformar sobre las...
En varias ocasiones, el ex presidente Donald Trump se ha jactado de la rapidez con la cual se desarrollaron vacunas contra covid-19 durante su administración. Sin embargo, en la campaña electoral para...
View ArticleGOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics
Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing covid-19 vaccines. On the campaign trail to win another term in the White House, though,...
View ArticleBiology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too
Jasen Gundersen never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly three decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor. But, today, he isn’t working in rural America and...
View ArticleMillions in Opioid Settlement Funds Sit Untouched as Overdose Deaths Rise
Nearly a year after Montana began receiving millions of dollars to invest in efforts to combat the opioid crisis, much of that money remains untouched. Meanwhile, the state’s opioid overdose and death...
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‘Financial Ruin Is Baked Into the System’: Readers on the Costs of Long-Term...
Thousands of readers reacted to the articles in the “Dying Broke” series about the financial burden of long-term care in the United States. They offered their assessments for the government and market...
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‘AGGA’ Inventor Testifies His Dental Device Was Not Meant for TMJ or Sleep Apnea
A Tennessee dentist who has been sued by multiple TMJ and sleep apnea patients over an unproven dental device he invented has said under oath that he never taught dentists to use the device for those...
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Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals
Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022. “This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered...
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Rising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care...
After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided to start offering...
View ArticleSurge in Syphilis Cases Leads Some Providers to Ration Penicillin
When Stephen Miller left his primary care practice to work in public health a little under two years ago, he said, he was shocked by how many cases of syphilis the clinic was treating. For decades,...
View ArticleIs Housing Health Care? State Medicaid Programs Increasingly Say ‘Yes’
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and...
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Early Detection May Help Kentucky Tamp Down Its Lung Cancer Crisis
Anthony Stumbo’s heart sank after the doctor shared his mother’s chest X-ray. “I remember that drive home, bringing her back home, and we basically cried,” said the internal medicine physician, who...
View ArticleSouthern Lawmakers Rethink Long-Standing Opposition to Medicaid Expansion
As a part-time customer service representative, Jolene Dybas earns less than $15,000 a year, which is below the federal poverty level and too low for her to be eligible for subsidized health insurance...
View ArticleMédicos deben racionar la penicilina por el dramático aumento de casos de...
Cuando hace unos dos años Stephen Miller dejó su consulta de atención primaria para trabajar en salud pública, se sorprendió de la cantidad de casos de sífilis que se trataban en la clínica. Durante...
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KFF Health News''What the Health?': Alabama Court Rules Embryos Are Children....
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A...
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