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California amplió el Medi-Cal a todos los residentes más allá de su estatus migratorio. Los resultados son desiguales.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez November 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Estos inmigrantes se han ido sumando al programa poco a poco, a medida que el estado fue eliminando el requisito de residencia legal.

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The Shrinking Number of Primary Care Physicians Is Reaching a Tipping Point

By Elisabeth Rosenthal September 8, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The declining share of U.S. doctors in adult primary care is about 25% — a point beyond which many Americans won’t be able to find a family doctor at all.

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Weighing Risks of a Major Surgery: 7 Questions Older Americans Should Ask Their Surgeon

By Judith Graham January 3, 2023 KFF Health News Original

How do older adults know when the potential benefits from surgery are worth the risks? And what questions should they ask as they try to figure this out? Our columnist asks experts for guidance.

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Lalit Bajaj points to a computer screen, standing beside fellow emergency physician Julia Fuzak Freeman.

Why It’s So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care

By Markian Hawryluk November 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Treatments that don’t help patients, and may even harm them, are difficult to eliminate because they can be big sources of revenue.

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A digital illustration painted with colorful gouache in yellow and blue tones shows a woman with her head tilted back in exhaustion, exposing her neck. The thyroid gland, shaped like a butterfly, is painted black in the center of her neck. Dots of various sizes swirl around her. Flowing into the thyroid gland are pill symbols. Dots with money symbols flow out.

El altísimo costo de tener una enfermedad autoinmune en Estados Unidos

By Andy Miller November 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A pesar de ser muy frecuentes, encontrar ayuda para muchas enfermedades autoinmunes puede resultar frustrante y costoso.

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An $80,000 Tab for Newborns Lays Out a Loophole in the New Law to Curb Surprise Bills

By Jay Hancock Photos by Heidi de Marco February 23, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The insurance company said that the birth of the Bull family’s twins was not an emergency and that NICU care was “not medically necessary.” The family’s experience with a huge bill sent to collections happened in 2020, but it exposes a hole in the new No Surprises law that took effect Jan. 1.

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Por qué el sarampión, la tos ferina y otras enfermedades graves podrían resurgir con RFK Jr.

By Arthur Allen December 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Expertos afirman que una confluencia de factores podría causar el resurgimiento de epidemias mortales de enfermedades como el sarampión, la tos ferina y la meningitis, o incluso de polio.

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence. Three men are seen standing on the stairs of a small wooden porch, their backs to the camera.

Tácticas migratorias de Trump obstaculizan esfuerzos para evitar una pandemia de gripe aviar, dicen investigadores

By Amy Maxmen April 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Los trabajadores de las industrias láctea y avícola han representado la mayoría de los casos de gripe aviar en el país, y prevenir y detectar los casos entre ellos es clave para evitar una pandemia.

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A New Covid Booster Is Here. Will Those at Greatest Risk Get It?

By Amy Maxmen September 15, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The CDC says everyone over 6 months old should get the new covid booster. But the emergency response mechanisms that supported earlier vaccine campaigns are gone. As one expert wonders: How to get boosters to people beyond Democrats, college graduates, and those with high incomes?

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Doctors Are as Vulnerable to Addiction as Anyone. California Grapples With a Response.

By Bernard J. Wolfson January 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Medical Board of California, which licenses MDs, is developing a program to evaluate, treat, and monitor doctors with alcohol and drug problems. But there is sharp disagreement over whether those who might volunteer for the program should be subject to public disclosure and over how much participants should pay.

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Most States Ban Shackling Pregnant Women in Custody, Yet Many Report Being Restrained

By Renuka Rayasam Illustration by Oona Zenda November 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Advocates for pregnant people in police custody say repeated incidents show prohibitions on handcuffs and other restraints are little more than lip service.

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Céline Gounder, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, white T-shirt, and backpack, stands beside Delowar Hossain, a former smallpox eradication worker. He has a long white beard and wears a loose peach-colored long-sleeved shirt. They both smile at the camera. In the background, a sunset highlights pillowy clouds in warm shades of pale yellow that contrast with bits of blue sky.

A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

By Céline Gounder March 29, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Physician and podcast host Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh and brought back never-before-heard stories, many from public health workers whose voices have been missing from the record documenting the eradication of smallpox.

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Olvídate del botón para llamar a la enfermera. Un dispositivo que usa IA adherido a tu pecho permite que controlen tus signos a distancia

By Phil Galewitz May 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Este delgado dispositivo, que funciona con baterías, se llama BioButton y registra los signos vitales de los pacientes, incluidas la temperatura, y las frecuencias cardíaca y respiratoria.

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New Charleston Museum Nods to Historical Roots of US Health Disparities

By Lauren Sausser June 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The $120 million International African American Museum that opened this week in Charleston, South Carolina, allows visitors to step back in history at Gadsden’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in America, the genesis of generations of health disparities.

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A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison.

By Fred Clasen-Kelly February 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The First Step Act was supposed to help free terminally ill and aging federal inmates who pose little or no threat to public safety. But while petitions for compassionate release skyrocketed during the pandemic, judges denied most requests.

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Hongos misteriosos son el centro de brote de intoxicación alimentaria

By Keely Larson December 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

​Según el Código Alimentario de la FDA, la gran mayoría de las más de 5,000 especies de hongos carnosos que crecen naturalmente en América del Norte no han sido sometidas a pruebas de toxicidad.

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HPV Vaccine Uptake Greatly Improved Cervical Cancer Prevention: CDC

February 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

The study shows an almost 80% drop in rates of cervical precancers among women ages 20-24 from 2008 to 2022, correlating to vaccine uptake. Simultaneously, an mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine is showing promise in a small, early-stage trial.

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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.

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What You Need to Know About the Drug Price Fight in Those TV Ads

By Arthur Allen July 10, 2023 KFF Health News Original

At least nine bills introduced in Congress take aim at pharmacy benefit managers, the powerful middlemen that channel prescription drugs to patients.

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New Alzheimer’s Drug Raises Hopes — Along With Questions

By Judith Graham August 11, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Clinics serving Alzheimer’s patients are working out the details of who will get treated with the new drug Leqembi. It won’t be for everyone with memory-loss symptoms.

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