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Gov’t Task Force Finds Evidence Lacking to Support Visual Skin Cancer Screenings

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez July 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded that insufficient evidence exists regarding the benefits and harms of visual skin cancer exams.

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‘Don’t Cut Me!’: Discouraged By Experts, Episiotomies Still Common In Some Hospitals

By Jocelyn Wiener July 19, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Overall rates are falling in California and nationally but data point to certain hospitals with extremely high percentages.

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Immigration Ban Shakes Medical Industry That Relies Heavily On Foreign Professionals

January 31, 2017 Morning Briefing

In 2014, more than 15,000 foreign health care workers, nearly half of them physicians and surgeons, received H-1B visas, which are designed to bring skilled labor into the U.S. Meanwhile, hospitals are scrambling to identify patients who were scheduled to come into the country to receive medical care and will be affected by the ban.

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Young Boy’s Struggle To Survive Sparked Push For Drugs For Terminally Ill

By Liz Szabo October 3, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Ten-year-old Josh Hardy died last month. His struggle to survive helped to spur laws to get unapproved drugs to the terminally ill.

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FAQ: Hospital Observation Care Can Be Costly For Medicare Patients

By Susan Jaffe August 29, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A guide to help Medicare patients receiving observation care.

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Despite New Access To Health Insurance, Drug-Treatment Rates For Ex-Offenders Barely Changed

By Jay Hancock June 6, 2016 KFF Health News Original

More emerging prisoners are covered by Medicaid, but they still face barriers in navigating the health system, researchers said.

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5 Things To Know About The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Decision

By Julie Rovner July 1, 2016 KFF Health News Original

It was a big win for pro-abortion rights advocates, but abortion opponents are not daunted. Stay tuned for how it will affect presidential politics and the next generation of women voters.

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Anti-Abortion Groups Rejuvenated By Trump Win

December 12, 2016 Morning Briefing

“This is the strongest the pro-life movement has been since 1973,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List. A renewed push for “personhood” laws is expected to be one of its first moves.

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Court Decision Leaves Undocumented Immigrants’ Health Care Options In Limbo

By Ana B. Ibarra Photos by Heidi de Marco July 29, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Deportation-relief programs would have meant access to subsidized health care.

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Drugmakers Manipulate Orphan Drug Rules To Create Prized Monopolies

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Sydney Lupkin January 17, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Drugmakers have brought almost 450 orphan drugs to market and collected rich incentives but nearly a third of those products aren’t new or were repurposed multiple times, an investigation shows.

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Will Covered California Sell Health Coverage To The Undocumented?

By Ana B. Ibarra April 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

California is inching closer to a first-in-the-nation request for a federal ruling that would allow the state’s Obamacare exchange to sell health plans to immigrants who are living in the country illegally.

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FAQ: Medicare Lays Out Plans For Changing Doctors’ Pay

By Mary Agnes Carey April 29, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The effort, which will replace a controversial reimbursement schedule that began in 1997, is designed to move away from paying for quantity of services and focus instead on quality.

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Anti-Abortion Forces Regroup In Wake Of Supreme Court Decision

By Julie Rovner July 20, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The setback prompts some to change direction, others to stay the course.

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Factors Beyond Coverage Limit Mental Health Care Access

By Shefali Luthra June 6, 2016 KFF Health News Original

According to a new study, the health law’s insurance expansions have helped more people gain access to mental health services. But racial and ethnic disparities continue.

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Inventing A Machine That Spits Out Drugs In A Whole New Way

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR May 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A refrigerator-sized machine could someday make lifesaving drugs on site when outbreaks occur or where medicine is in short supply, like on the battlefield.

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Children Exposed To Hepatitis C May Be Missing Out On Treatment

By Elana Gordon, WHYY July 28, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Hepatitis C can be passed from mothers to babies, but it often is not diagnosed until much later in a person’s life. Specialists are debating new screening practices to catch the disease earlier.

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Abbott Sues To Halt Its Troubled $5.8B Merger With Alere

December 8, 2016 Morning Briefing

Abbott Laboratories cites a drop in in the medical test-developer’s financial outlook in the lawsuit. Alere says it has complied with terms of the merger deal and that the filing is “without merit.”

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Smokers’ Ranks Look Conspicuously Sparse In Obamacare

By Phil Galewitz May 4, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Federal data suggest that many smokers aren’t confessing to their tobacco habit to avoid paying higher health care premiums, thwarting insurers.

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How And Where To Dump Your Leftover Drugs — Responsibly

By Emily Bazar June 1, 2016 KFF Health News Original

With the nation’s opioid crisis worsening, officials want you to dispose of unwanted or expired prescription drugs. But finding a convenient take-back site requires time and patience.

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Medicare To Test New Payment Approaches For Some Prescription Medications

By Julie Appleby March 9, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Regulators unveiled a two-part plan that will change payments and test ways in which the Medicare Part B program can change the incentives that some policy experts say encourage doctors to choose higher-cost medications.

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