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Listen: With Vital Health Research Defunded, Who’s Losing Out? 

By Rae Ellen Bichell June 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

From Florida to California, National Institutes of Health grant cuts have halted research studies on HIV, vaccines, and health equity — affecting red and blue states alike.

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Journalists Track Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis and Put Catholic Hospitals Under the Scope

March 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Journalists Give Rundown on Bird Flu Risks, HIV Rates, and the Fate of Shuttered Hospitals

September 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on state and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Journalists Discuss African Mpox Upsurge, EpiPen Alternative, and Medicaid Unwinding

August 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and state media this week to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Can Congress Reconcile Trump’s Wishes With Medicaid’s Needs?

April 24, 2025 Podcast

When Congress returns next week, it will be writing a budget reconciliation bill that’s expected to cut taxes but also make deep cuts to Medicaid. But at least some Republicans are concerned about cutting a program that aids so many of their constituents. Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss this story and more. Also, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Rae Ellen Bichell about her story on how care for transgender minors is changing in Colorado.

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Journalists Unpack Facility School Closures and Federal Investment in Crisis Hotlines

May 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Federal Cuts Ripple Through a Bioscience Hub in Rural Montana

By Katheryn Houghton Updated May 27, 2025 Originally Published May 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, is one of only a few dozen research facilities of its type. The threat of staffing and grant cuts has town leaders worried and has added to long-standing tension around the lab’s presence in this politically conservative region.

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Las familias de jóvenes trans ya no ven a Colorado como un refugio para la atención de afirmación de género

By Rae Ellen Bichell April 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Colorado es reconocido desde hace tiempo como un refugio para la atención de afirmación de género: se considera legalmente protegida y un beneficio esencial del seguro médico.

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Safety-Net Health Clinics Cut Services and Staff Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding’

By Katheryn Houghton May 30, 2024 KFF Health News Original

One of Montana’s largest safety-net health centers announced it will lay off nearly 10% of its workforce because of revenue losses it attributes to vast Medicaid disenrollments. Such cuts are happening elsewhere too.

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Readers Scrutinize Federal Cuts and Medical Debt

May 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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New Colorado Gun Law Aims To Shore Up Victim Services

By Rae Ellen Bichell December 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A new tax on guns and ammunition in Colorado is set to take effect in the spring. Voters approved the tax, with most of the proceeds going to support services for crime victims and other social programs.

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Families of Transgender Youth No Longer View Colorado as a Haven for Gender-Affirming Care

By Rae Ellen Bichell Illustration by Oona Zenda April 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Colorado was long considered a haven for gender-affirming care. But under this Trump administration, hospitals in the state have limited the treatments available for people under 19. Some services have been restored, but trans youth and their families say the state isn’t the rock they thought it was.

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Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash

April 20, 2023 Page

Featured articles 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 […]

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Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation

By Rae Ellen Bichell September 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Social media has helped spread the word about a treatment that involves getting Botox in the neck. It’s for a condition that’s gaining awareness but still often dismissed: the inability to burp.

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Gracias a Reddit, un nuevo diagnóstico se está extendiendo por todo el país

By Rae Ellen Bichell September 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

La incapacidad de eructar puede causar hinchazón, dolor, gorgoteos en el cuello y el pecho, y flatulencias excesivas mientras el aire acumulado busca una salida alternativa.

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With Only Gloves To Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu

By Rae Ellen Bichell August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A Colorado picnic celebrated Farmworker Appreciation Day. But some dairy workers there said they aren’t feeling appreciated: They don’t have basic protective gear, even as bird flu spreads through area farms.

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Trabajadores dicen que cuidan a vacas enfermas en medio de la gripe aviar usando solo guantes

By Rae Ellen Bichell August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

En Colorado, los departamentos de Salud y Agricultura dan equipos de protección gratis. Pero dicen que hasta ahora solo el 13% de los productores en tambos los han solicitado.

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Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care

February 9, 2023 Page

Featured Stories A quote from a source in the series Video Explainer More Stories in the Series Where Else is Private Equity Making Inroads? A quote from a source in the series Explore the Database KFF Health News analyzed 600 deals by 25 firms PitchBook identified as the top private equity investors in health care. […]

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Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor

By Rae Ellen Bichell July 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Colorado defended its high disenrollment rates following the covid crisis by saying that what goes up must come down. Advocates and researchers disagree.

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Colorado expulsó a beneficiarios de Medicaid como si fuera un estado republicano

By Rae Ellen Bichell July 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Es el único estado demócrata entre un grupo de estados republicanos con altas tasas de desafiliación, que incluye a Idaho, Montana, Texas y Utah, en un proceso de Medicaid que comenzó en la primavera de 2023.

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