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Battle Lines Drawn As Abortion-Rights Activists Leave Their Mark Outside Clinics

By Ana B. Ibarra August 22, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Armed with poster board and catchy advertising slogans, abortion-rights activists in California and elsewhere are taking to sidewalks, buses and mobile phone apps to fight a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of crisis pregnancy centers.

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Childbirth In The Age Of Addiction: New Mom Worries About Maintaining Sobriety

By April Dembosky, KQED November 14, 2018 KFF Health News Original

For mothers in recovery from opioid addiction, narcotic pain relief during and after delivery can put sobriety at risk.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes February 15, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.

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Judge Slashes $2B Jury Verdict In Case Over Roundup’s Possible Link To Cancer

July 26, 2019 Morning Briefing

Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith said the jury’s billion-dollar punitive damages awards were excessive and unconstitutional. Bayer faces Roundup cancer lawsuits by more than 13,400 plaintiffs across the United States.

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Where Abortion Fights Will Play Out In 2019

By Julie Rovner January 9, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Expect more aggressive regulatory action from the Trump administration while skirmishes continue in Congress and statehouses across the country. Many of these policies will ultimately be challenged in court.

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Escalating Global Recall Of Zantac Doesn’t Have Roots In Government Oversight But Rather A Tiny Online Pharmacy

November 11, 2019 Morning Briefing

The startup with only 14 employees raised flags with U.S. regulators over the safety of Zantac leading to an ever-growing recall of the product. “I had a fairly dim view of drug quality in the United States going into this, but we’ve discovered tons of problems I never even thought of — and they’re all over the place,” said Adam Clark-Joseph, one of Valisure’s founders. In other pharmaceutical news: the patent battle over the HIV prevention drug; 340B payment cuts; and Congress’s struggle to contain high drug prices.

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Sales Reps May Be Wearing Out Their Welcome In The Operating Room

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio November 30, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Do sales reps in the operating room lend helpful expertise or inflate already bloated costs? Depends on whom you ask.

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How Genetic Tests Muddy Your Odds Of Getting A Long-Term-Care Policy

By Michelle Andrews August 7, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Federal law bars insurers from using these test results for health coverage, but they can influence whether you get a plan covering long-term care.

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Health Care Is Where The Jobs Are. But What Kind Of Jobs?

By Rachel Bluth December 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The health care industry adds thousands of jobs to the economy each month. While they aren’t all doctors and nurses, they aren’t all paper pushers either.

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El almacenamiento de vacunas a menudo no cumple con los estándares

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez February 12, 2019 KFF Health News Original

La mala refrigeración puede afectar la eficacia de las dosis. Y al parecer, el problema central surge al trasladarlas del fabricante a los centros de atención.

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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Split Decision On Health Care

November 8, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Joanne Kenen of Politico discuss the Trump administration’s new birth control coverage rules and the potential impact of the midterm election results on health policy.

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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Doctors, Guns And Lame Ducks

November 15, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Alice Ollstein of Politico discuss how the Democrats’ takeover of the House and other results from the Nov. 6 elections might affect health care, and what Congress may have in store for the lame-duck session.

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Watch: What You Should Know About The New Rule On Short-Term Health Plans

August 2, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Under the Trump administration’s new rule, these plans can now last as long as 12 months — instead of the Obama-era 90-day limit — and be renewed for two additional years. Critics say these changes are part of another swipe at the Affordable Care Act.

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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ A Detour On A Smoking Off-Ramp

September 13, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Sarah Jane Tribble of Kaiser Health News, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call talk about the Food and Drug Administration’s latest actions to address teenagers’ use of e-cigarettes, Arkansas’ Medicaid work requirements and news about the uninsured from the latest federal Census report.

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KHN Conversation On Overtreatment

September 27, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Physicians estimate that 21 percent of medical care is unnecessary — a problem that costs the health care system at least $210 billion a year. KHN hosted a forum on how too much medicine can cause harm.

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Smoke-Filled Snapshot: California Wildfire Generates Dangerous Air Quality For Millions

By Harriet Blair Rowan November 21, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Smoke from the deadly and destructive Camp Fire has caused air quality readings to spike into “hazardous” and “unhealthy” levels for millions of people far outside of the burn zones. Is smoky air the new normal for California?

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The Steep Financial Toll Of Cancer Deaths: Lost Earnings Costs U.S. $94B

July 8, 2019 Morning Briefing

In 2015, 600,000 Americans died of cancer. Compounding the losses to loved ones, the country’s economy also took a hit from the estimated $94.4 billion in lost earnings that year. In other cancer-related news: scientists aim to use “nanobodies” as a potential new treatment against the disease; and new physical activity guidelines for breast cancer survivors.

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Nurse Denied Life Insurance Because She Carries Naloxone

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR December 14, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The U.S. surgeon general has called on “bystanders” to be equipped with the opioid reversal drug to save lives. But when a nurse answered that call, her application for life insurance was denied. Why?

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Listen: The GOP Case Against ACA’s Preexisting Condition Protections Begins

September 6, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Oral arguments got underway in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday in the lawsuit brought by 20 Republican states seeking to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

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Under Trump, Number Of Uninsured Kids Rose For First Time This Decade

By Phil Galewitz November 29, 2018 KFF Health News Original

About 276,000 more children are among the uninsured, a new report finds. Though the uptick is statistically small, it is striking because uninsured rates usually decrease during periods of economic growth.

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