ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More

February 28, 2026

KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio’s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25.

Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on Insight With Vicki Gonzalez.
Read Boyd-Barrett’s “‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees.”

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the neurodegenerative disease ALS on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on Feb. 20.

Click here to watch Gounder on CBS Mornings.

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Elyse Stevens, a New Orleans doctor who faced investigation because of her patient-centered approach to substance use disorders, on The Lens’ Behind The Lens podcast on Feb. 20.

Click here to hear Pattani on Behind The Lens.
Read Pattani’s “Inside the Battle for the Future of Addiction Medicine.”

KFF Health News chief rural correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed major cuts to Medicaid on WBUR’s Here & Now on Feb. 19. Tribble also discussed Alabama’s plan for robotic ultrasounds on The Daily Yonder’s The Yonder Report on Feb. 19.

Click here to hear Tribble on Here & Now.
Click here to hear Tribble on The Yonder Report.
Read Tribble’s “Alabama’s ‘Pretty Cool’ Plan for Robots in Maternity Care Sparks Debate.”

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February 28, 2026

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<h1>ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More</h1>

KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio’s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25.

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<li>Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on <a href="https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2026/02/25/downtown-sacs-10-year-plan-ice-in-ca-hospitals-childrens-book-this-hair-belongs/">Insight With Vicki Gonzalez</a>.</li>

<li>Read Boyd-Barrett’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ice-immigrants-hospitals-detainees-patients-rights-family-blackout-policies-california/">‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees</a>.”</li>
</ul>

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the neurodegenerative disease ALS on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on Feb. 20.

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sXf1qakCyo">Click here to watch Gounder on CBS Mornings</a>.</li>
</ul>

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Elyse Stevens, a New Orleans doctor who faced investigation because of her patient-centered approach to substance use disorders, on The Lens’ Behind The Lens podcast on Feb. 20.

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<li><a href="https://thelensnola.org/2026/02/20/innovative-or-ill-advised-a-nola-addiction-doctor-leaves-after-her-novel-approach-raises-questions-at-her-hospital/">Click here to hear Pattani on Behind The Lens</a>.</li>

<li>Read Pattani’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/addiction-medicine-harm-reduction-opioids-louisiana-doctor-battle/">Inside the Battle for the Future of Addiction Medicine</a>.”</li>
</ul>

KFF Health News chief rural correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed major cuts to Medicaid on WBUR’s Here & Now on Feb. 19. Tribble also discussed Alabama’s plan for robotic ultrasounds on The Daily Yonder’s The Yonder Report on Feb. 19.

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/19/medicaid-cuts-rural-funding">Click here to hear Tribble on Here & Now</a>. </li>

<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/676Iw0crzBceDmBHCwZeWz?si=GEq8Q_5YSnyN_bOb6nSVsg&nd=1&dlsi=dbf8b40e1c944fab">Click here to hear Tribble on The Yonder Report</a>.</li>

<li>Read Tribble’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/alabama-robot-ultrasounds-maternity-care-rural-health-oz/">Alabama’s ‘Pretty Cool’ Plan for Robots in Maternity Care Sparks Debate</a>.”</li>
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