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UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity

By Jay Hancock October 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The University of Virginia promised reforms but has stopped short of announcing them, while hospital giant VCU Health has freed tens of thousands from property liens.

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Should You Bring Mom Home From Assisted Living During The Pandemic?

By Judith Graham March 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Families are weighing the challenges of providing home care with the isolation or potential danger of leaving folks in senior housing or long-term care.

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Second Time Around? Health Care Issues Trump Might Tackle If Reelected

April 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Rovner examines what health care issues the administration might encounter if President Donald Trump wins in November.

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Nueve estados reabren mercados de seguros de salud, para ayudar a frenar a COVID-19

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Buscan calmar las preocupaciones y para que las personas que se sienten enfermas no dejen de ir al médico por los costos, y terminen propagando el virus sin darse cuenta.

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Sleepless Nights, Hair Loss and Cracked Teeth: Pandemic Stress Takes Its Toll

By Aneri Pattani October 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Reports are on the rise regarding excruciating headaches, stomach upsets for weeks on end, sudden outbreaks of shingles and flare-ups of autoimmune disorders. A common thread among the complaints, one that has been months in the making, is chronic stress.

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Amid Pandemic, Programs Struggle To Reach Vulnerable Seniors Living At Home

By Judith Graham March 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Older adults are at serious risk during this pandemic and have been advised to avoid contact with others. Yet many still need essential services, and programs are scrambling to adapt.

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A Colorado Ski Community Planned To Test Everyone For COVID-19. Here’s What Happened.

By Christie Aschwanden April 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A couple decided to donate a new test from their company to enable coronavirus testing for everyone in their ski resort community. It was an experiment that promised to show what widespread testing could do to fight the spread of COVID-19. But even the best-intended plans run into problems during this pandemic.

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Photo Essay: LA Under Lockdown

By Heidi de Marco March 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Californians are under orders to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus — and the result is that some of Southern California’s best-known spots are shuttered or deserted, from Santa Monica Pier to Olvera Street.

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A Senator From Arizona Emerges As A Pharma Favorite

By Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas May 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has received almost $100,000 from drug companies in the current election cycle, a KHN analysis shows, one of the largest cash hauls in Congress. And it’s only her first term.

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Under COVID Cloud, Prisons In Rural America Threaten To Choke Rural Hospitals

By LJ Dawson May 14, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A rural Montana county of 5,000 people lays claim to the state’s highest COVID-19 infection rate. The community risks additional spread, though, because of a private prison situated there. If the virus infiltrates the prison and just a fraction of inmates get sick, the area’s limited health resources may not endure.

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Keeping The COVID Plague At Bay: How California Is Protecting Older Veterans

By Dan Morain May 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Even as COVID-19 has ravaged nursing homes around the country, California has managed to keep the virus at bay at its eight state-run homes for frail and older veterans. What exactly went right?

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Southwest CEO’s Boast About Airplanes’ Low COVID Risk Flies By Key Concerns

By Victoria Knight May 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Airplanes are small enclosed spaces where social distancing poses special challenges, making this statement an overstatement.

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Qué significa la “limpieza profunda” para tener barcos, aviones y casas libres de virus

By Victoria Knight and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez March 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

La limpieza profunda no es un concepto científico y, aunque hay guías oficiales, puede significar algo distinto para una empresa que para un consumidor.

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New Moms Behind Bars Get Help From Someone Who’s Been There

By Giles Bruce October 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Nina Porter of Indiana spent most of her adulthood behind bars, even raising an infant daughter in prison. Now out of prison, she’s drawing on her struggles to create a program that helps other moms get by in a sometimes unwelcoming post-prison world.

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Readers And Tweeters Ponder Racism, Public Health Threats And COVID’s Cost

June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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

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India’s Covid Variant May Be Cause Of Faster Spread

May 19, 2021 Morning Briefing

Scientists try to understand the variant that might be behind the fast and uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in India. Nepal is also getting hit.

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Fighting COVID And Police Brutality, Medical Teams Take To Streets To Treat Protesters

By LJ Dawson June 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Off-duty medical professionals joined protests in Denver and elsewhere sparked by George Floyd’s death to treat injured protesters, risking injury themselves.

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Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Anna Almendrala January 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

To date, the U.S. has multiple confirmed cases of the viral infection that originated in Wuhan, China. That includes cases in which the virus passed from person to person within this country. So why don’t health officials share more information with the public?

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‘Essential’ Or Not, These Workers Report For Duty

By Heidi de Marco April 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In Los Angeles County and beyond, people continue to toil through the coronavirus pandemic, often in positions that put them in constant contact with the public. Many are low-wage workers who can’t afford to stop working.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes February 7, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Happy Friday! In news that is technically really good and exciting but is also kind of icky: yarn made from human skin could eventually be used to stitch up surgical wounds as a way to cut down on detrimental reactions from patients. As CNN reports, “The researchers say their ‘human textile,’ which they developed from […]

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