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A colorful, digital illustration in pencil and watercolor shows a cartoon figure hooked up to an array of medical devices. The figure has a device in their mouth, which has caused two teeth to fall out; a glucose monitor on their arm is connected to a cellphone; a ventilator is connected to their lungs; a device is connected to their heart from the inside with battery packs on the outside; and a hemodialysis machine causes blood to spurt from a vein unnoticed. A large error symbol (a yellow triangle with a red exclamation point at its center) is at the center of the illustration.

Deep Flaws in FDA Oversight of Medical Devices, and Patient Harm, Exposed in Lawsuits and Records

By Fred Schulte and Holly K. Hacker Illustration by Oona Zenda December 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of medical devices are sold, and even implanted, with no safety tests.

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Big Pharma Went All In to Kill Drug Pricing Negotiations

By Arthur Allen August 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

For more than a century, the drug industry has issued dire warnings of plunging innovation whenever regulation reared its head. In general, the threat hasn’t materialized.

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‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions

By Samantha Young February 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Problems with California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program are preventing thousands of patients from getting their medications, including some life-saving ones. State officials say they’re working on fixes.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Year-End Bill Holds Big Health Changes

January 5, 2023 Podcast

The year-end spending bill passed by Congress in late December contains a wide array of health-related provisions, including a structure for states to begin to disenroll people on Medicaid whose coverage has been maintained through the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the abortion pill more widely available. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark Kreidler, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a billing mix-up that took about a year to sort out.

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Consumer Beware: Coronavirus Antibody Tests Are Still A Work In Progress

By JoNel Aleccia April 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Public officials are putting high hopes on new blood tests as a means of determining who has developed antibodies to COVID-19, and with those antibodies, presumed immunity. But experts caution the tests are largely unreliable and the science is still catching up.

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Alerta al consumidor: pruebas de anticuerpos para COVID-19 todavía se están desarrollando

By JoNel Aleccia April 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Funcionarios de la Organización Mundial de la Salud se manifestaron en contra de los planes de algunos países de tener “pasaportes de inmunidad”, que habilitarían a salir y trabajar.

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Investors’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Surprise Medical Bills

By Rachel Bluth and Emmarie Huetteman September 11, 2019 KFF Health News Original

As lobbyists purporting to represent doctors and hospitals fight attempts to control surprise medical bills, it has become increasingly clear that the force behind the effort is not just medical professionals, but also investors from private equity firms.

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Why Older Adults Should Eat More Protein (And Not Overdo Protein Shakes)

By Judith Graham January 17, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Whether because of illness or inactivity, many seniors need to up their protein game to maintain strength and mobility.

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‘Sham’ Sharing Ministries Test Faith Of Patients And Insurance Regulators

By JoNel Aleccia May 17, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Officials in Washington and other states are cracking down on companies that avoid health insurance regulations by masquerading as faith-based care.

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Por qué los adultos mayores necesitan consumir más proteína

By Judith Graham January 17, 2019 KFF Health News Original

La cantidad de proteínas, y las formas de consumirla, son distintas en las personas mayores. Su carencia impacta fuerte en su masa muscular.

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Lost on the Frontline

By The Staffs of KHN and The Guardian August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

“Lost on the Frontline” is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.

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Table: Caring for Migrant Farmworkers

June 6, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Details about the 156 health centers that get federal funds to provide primary care to migrant and seasonal farmworkers regardless of immigration status.

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The Wealth Of Children’s Hospitals

September 25, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Details on revenues, spending and total assets of 39 children’s hospitals from around the country.

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