Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash
April 20, 2023
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Featured Story Localize the Data If you are a journalist who wants to investigate opioid settlement transparency data for your area, here’s how you can do that. Share Your Settlement Story Do you have concerns about how your state or locality is using the opioid settlement funds? Are they doing something effective that other places […]
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live From Aspen: Three HHS Secretaries on What the Job Is Really Like
June 22, 2023
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What does a day in the life of the nation’s top health official really look like? And how much of their agenda is set by the White House? In this special episode of KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” — taped before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado — host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former U.S. secretaries of Health and Human Services. Secretary Xavier Becerra and former secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar talk candidly about what it takes to run a department with more than 80,000 employees and a budget larger than those of many countries.
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, a CEO Works With the Community To Bolster Hospital
By Bernard J. Wolfson
April 19, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Jian Zhang, an immigrant from China with a doctorate in nursing, leads the 88-bed Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. The facility faces financial constraints like other independent hospitals, but its strong community support and partnerships have helped it weather tough times.
Congress Considers Easing Regulations on Air Transport of Donated Organs
By Colleen DeGuzman
July 20, 2023
KFF Health News Original
A little-noticed provision of sweeping legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration would make it easier to fly human organs from donor to recipient.
Florida’s RSV Season Has Started, and It’s Coming Soon to the Rest of US. Here’s a Primer.
By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times
July 31, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Florida’s RSV season begins earlier and runs longer than anywhere else in the U.S., according to the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. New vaccines can help, but most older adults, who are vulnerable to RSV, haven’t gotten them yet.
Why Many Nonprofit (Wink, Wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Money
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
July 29, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Legal maneuvering, industry lobbying, and lax IRS oversight leave lots of room for “operating surpluses.”
Many Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive Care
By Andy Miller
Illustration by Oona Zenda
November 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Despite the prevalence of autoimmune conditions, like the thyroid disease Hashimoto’s, sometimes finding help can prove frustrating as well as expensive. There are often no definitive diagnostic tests, so patients may rack up big bills as they search for confirmation of their condition and for treatment options.
What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America
By Sarah Jane Tribble
October 4, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Dollar General’s pilot mobile clinic program has been touted by company officials, rural health experts, and analysts as a model that could help solve rural America’s primary care shortage. But its Tennessee launch has been met with local skepticism.
These Vibrant, Bigger-Than-Life Portraits Turn Gun Death Statistics Into Indelible Stories
By Christine Spolar
July 10, 2024
KFF Health News Original
With pop-up art shows in Philadelphia and beyond, Zarinah Lomax’s mission is to show what is routinely lost to gun violence in America: “This is somebody’s child. Somebody’s son, somebody’s daughter who was working toward something.”
Siete preguntas que una persona mayor debe hacer antes de someterse a una cirugía compleja
By Judith Graham
January 3, 2023
KFF Health News Original
En muchos casos, la cirugía puede salvar la vida del paciente o mejorar su calidad de vida. Pero la edad avanzada los expone a un mayor riesgo de resultados no deseados, como dificultades en las actividades cotidianas, hospitalizaciones prolongadas, problemas de movilidad y pérdida de independencia.
Survey: Americans Want Weight Loss Drugs Despite High Cost
By Julie Appleby
August 4, 2023
KFF Health News Original
A new poll reveals enthusiasm for a pricey new generation of weight loss drugs, but interest drops if users potentially have to deal with weekly injections, lack of insurance coverage, or a need to continue the medications indefinitely to avoid regaining weight.
$2 Million Disbursed to Victims and Community Groups in Wake of Super Bowl Mass Shooting
By Peggy Lowe, KCUR Bram Sable-Smith
June 28, 2024
KFF Health News Original
The United Way of Greater Kansas City gave $1.2 million to victims and $832,000 to 14 community groups Thursday, hoping to reach other victims from the violence at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, as well as those working to prevent gun violence.
LGBTQ+ People Relive Old Traumas as They Age on Their Own
By Judith Graham
December 24, 2024
KFF Health News Original
The generation that faced discrimination, ostracism, and the AIDS epidemic now faces old age. Many struggle with isolation along with a host of pressing health problems.
Millions of Aging Americans Are Facing Dementia by Themselves
By Judith Graham
October 15, 2024
KFF Health News Original
In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia by themselves often fall through the cracks.
Farmacéuticas abandonan los genéricos baratos y ahora los pacientes de cáncer en EE.UU. no pueden conseguir medicamentos
By Arthur Allen
June 21, 2023
KFF Health News Original
El cisplatino y el carboplatino son algunos de los medicamentos que escasean, así como otros 12 contra el cáncer, pastillas para el trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad, anticoagulantes y antibióticos.
Vance Rewrites History About Trump and Obamacare
By Julie Appleby
September 24, 2024
KFF Health News Original
During the Trump administration, enrollment in Affordable Care Act health plans fell by more than 2 million people and the number of uninsured Americans rose.
‘What Happens Three Months From Now?’ Mental Health After Georgia High School Shooting
By Sam Whitehead Renuka Rayasam Andy Miller
September 13, 2024
KFF Health News Original
The recent shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta caused more than physical wounds. Medical experts worry a lack of mental health resources in the community — and in Georgia as a whole — means few options for those trying to cope with trauma from the shooting.
Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More.
By Vanessa G. Sánchez
September 9, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has a plan to protect farmworkers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke, but farmworkers who pick California grapes say they need more, as climate change brings more extreme weather.
Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One.
By Phil Galewitz
May 8, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Dozens of hospitals have deployed a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor patients remotely. One hospital says it reduces nurses’ workloads — but some nurses fear the technology could replace them.
Mysterious Morel Mushrooms at Center of Food Poisoning Outbreak
By Keely Larson
Illustration by Oona Zenda
December 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Federal officials issued their first guidelines on preparing morel mushrooms after a deadly food poisoning outbreak in Montana, noting the toxins in the delicacy aren’t fully understood.
