Medical Research, FDA And Mental Health Programs Face Budget Bite
Federal funding for Medicaid is untouched but doctors, hospitals and other Medicare providers will see a 2 percent reduction.
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Pressure Rising To Avoid Federal Spending Cuts That Will Impact Health Programs
Although Medicare and Medicaid will be largely unscathed in the March 1 sequestration, other health-related efforts including medical research, mental health treatments and drug approvals face reductions.
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Health Care Cuts From Vaccinations To Research
Sequestration's cuts will likely affect how low-income Americans get maternal care, vaccinate their children and get treatment for mental illness, even if the cuts largely spare Medicare and Medicaid.
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Dispelling Some Rumors About Medicare And The Health Law Limiting Care
Insurance columnist answers readers' questions, including two about whether some older seniors are denied access to surgeries and whether the health law restricts the number of prescription drugs for patients.
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Health Law Has Gaps In Men’s Care
At the urging of women lawmakers and advocacy groups, the overhaul provides coverage for some specific preventive care, especially for sexual and reproductive health, but men's coverage is more limited.
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Letter To The Editor: The Role For Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis In The Fight Against AIDS
KHN periodically shares readers' comments on recent original stories.
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Tiffany West: The Role Of Local Health Departments
The chief of strategic information on HIV/AIDS for the D.C. Department of Health tells Joanne Silberner that innovative tools and strategic spending can cut into DC's epidemic.
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From Zambia To Kansas City: One Woman’s AIDS Odyssey
More than 6,000 people in the Kansas City region are living with HIV/AIDS, including Bester Seemani, who says an AIDS diagnosis twelve years ago completely changed her life and her journey back home to Zambia.
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Phill Wilson: ‘Advances Have Not Benefitted All Populations Equally’
AIDS in 2012: The founder and executive director of the Black AIDS Institute tells Joanne Silberner that the AIDS epidemic can be combated by making policy choices based on science and by ensuring that the health law's essential benefits package provides for both HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.
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