Drugmakers Push Boundaries On Challenging 340B Discounts
August 20, 2020
Morning Briefing
Testing new regulatory guidance, drugmakers step up efforts to restrict how 340B providers can contract with pharmacies, Modern Healthcare reports.
To Speed Up Vaccines, Don’t Be Rigid On Priority Guidelines, Surgeon General Urges States
January 6, 2021
Morning Briefing
Surgeon General Jerome Adams provided the news media a cheat sheet: “Your headline today really should be, ‘Surgeon general tells states and governors to move quickly to other priority groups.’ If the demand isn’t there in 1a, go to 1b, and continue on down,” he told NBC.
Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals
By Will Stone
April 7, 2020
KFF Health News Original
As hospitals across the country are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures in response to the surge in patients with COVID-19, those hard choices are disrupting care for some people with serious illnesses.
Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus
By Lauren Weber Laura Ungar Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press Hannah Recht Anna Maria Barry-Jester
July 1, 2020
KFF Health News Original
The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by The Associated Press and KHN has found that since 2010, spending for state public health departments has dropped by 16% per capita and for local health departments by 18%. At least 38,000 public health jobs have disappeared, leaving a skeletal workforce for what was once viewed as one of the world’s top public health systems. That has left the nation unprepared to deal with a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million people and killed more than 126,000.
When Masculinity Turns ‘Toxic’: A Gender Profile Of Mass Shootings
By Phillip Reese
October 3, 2019
KFF Health News Original
Men are far more likely than women to commit deadly mass shootings, both in California and across the nation. We break down the numbers — and ask experts why gender would have a role in indiscriminate violence.
When Prisons Are ‘Petri Dishes,’ Inmates Can’t Guard Against COVID-19, They Say
By Jake Harper, Side Effects Public Media
May 6, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Indiana prisoners said they can’t protect themselves from the virus, as the governor resists calls to reduce overcrowding. “Scared for our lives,” said an inmate.
Despite Supreme Court Win, Texas Abortion Clinics Still Shuttered
By Ashley Lopez, KUT
November 18, 2019
KFF Health News Original
Three years after winning a big legal battle, abortion providers still find themselves losing the war when it comes to keeping clinics open across the huge, populous state.
OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t.
By Aneri Pattani Robert Lewis Christina Jewett
November 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Four workers died at a facility with one of the largest U.S. outbreaks, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration never conducted an inspection. It’s a pattern that’s played out across the nation, a KHN investigation finds.
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Elections Matter
November 7, 2019
KFF Health News Original
Key Democratic wins in 2019 state elections in Virginia and (probably) Kentucky could have big implications for health care in general and Medicaid in particular. And in the Democratic presidential primary, Elizabeth Warren is catching flak from all sides over her “Medicare For All” plan. This week, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Caitlin Owens of Axios and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN’s Laura Ungar, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month.” For “extra credit,” the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week.
Addiction Is ‘A Disease Of Isolation’ — So Pandemic Puts Recovery At Risk
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
March 30, 2020
KFF Health News Original
People in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction have to weather a new storm of depression, anxiety and isolation during the pandemic, just as the social supports of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs move online.
De no creer: jóvenes buscan aliviar su adicción al “vapeo”… fumando cigarrillos
By Ana B. Ibarra
September 13, 2019
KFF Health News Original
Una unidad de Juul, que proporciona alrededor de 200 bocanadas, contiene tanta nicotina como un paquete de cigarrillos. Los jóvenes vuelven a fumar para frenar otra adicción.
Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’
By Will Stone
May 5, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Elizabeth and Robert Mar would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Instead, they died within a day of each other. Their two very different deaths illustrate how palliative care is changing to help patients and families cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: What Would Dr. Fauci Do?
November 19, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Anthony Fauci is one of the nation’s most trusted voices during public health emergencies. As the head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, Fauci has helped guide the nation through the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika. In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, Fauci sits down with KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal to talk about how to navigate the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic and what the incoming Biden administration should do first.
Not Yesterday’s Cocaine: Death Toll Rising From Tainted Drug
By Laura Ungar
November 25, 2019
KFF Health News Original
While the U.S. continues to focus mainly on the opioid crisis, cocaine is quietly making a comeback and has become one of the biggest overdose killers of African Americans when tainted with fentanyl.
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October 1, 2019
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California, ¿firmará el gobernador una controversial ley sobre vacunas?
By Ana B. Ibarra
September 6, 2019
KFF Health News Original
La totalidad de los senadores republicanos votaron en contra de la medida y todos los demócratas votaron a favor, excepto uno que no votó.
California Lawmakers Send Contested Vaccine Bill To Governor. Will He Sign It?
By Ana B. Ibarra
September 6, 2019
KFF Health News Original
The state Senate on Wednesday sent a measure to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom that would tighten the rules for children’s medical exemptions from vaccines. Newsom, who said in June that he would sign the measure after amendments had been made at his request, now wants more changes.
HHS Releases $20B More For Providers In Relief Funding
October 2, 2020
Morning Briefing
The agency said to apply soon because the money will go fast. News is on additional funding for HIV care, cyberattacks, unequal pay for female physicians and more.
COVID Tests Are Free, Except When They’re Not
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
April 29, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Her doctor worried she had COVID-19 but couldn’t test her for it until she ruled out other things. That test cost a bundle.
‘An Arm And A Leg’: A Medical Bill Ninja Shares Her Secrets
By Dan Weissmann
November 21, 2019
KFF Health News Original
On Season 3, Episode 2 of the podcast “An Arm and a Leg,” an Illinois woman harnesses a lifetime of experience — and frustration — with health care finances to help other people solve their medical bill problems.
