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Doctors With Troubled Pasts Are Performing Cosmetic Surgeries Tied to Crippling Pain and Injury
Some injured patients say they wish they had tried harder to check the backgrounds of doctors and clinics they trusted, but those records are hard to find.
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When a Quick Telehealth Visit Yields Multiple Surprises Beyond a Big Bill
For the patient, it was a quick and inexpensive virtual appointment. Why it cost 10 times what she expected became a mystery.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, July 18, 2025
ACA premiums to rise, surprise medical bills, ICE access to Medicaid data, PEPFAR funds, vaccine uptake, and more. Plus, your weekend reads.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, May 23, 2025
Health cuts in the tax bill; MAHA report on kids' health; covid vaccines, variants; GLP-1 drugs; cancer deaths; and more. Plus, weekend reads.
Trauma Lives in the Body
Episode 3Denzel Taylor, a young Black father, moved from Chicago to Sikeston, Missouri, for a fresh start in life. There, he proposed to his girlfriend, started a family, and then, in April 2020, was fatally shot by police officers. Taylor had two young daughters and another on the way when he was killed. Pediatrician Rhea Boyd talks about how children process such loss.
A Health Policy Veteran Puts 2025 in Perspective
Season 13, Episode 7Two stories from Washington, D.C., give listeners a sense of what changes the Trump administration has been making to health policy, with KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner and Arthur Allen.
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Morning Briefing: Monday, December 22, 2025
Insurance and drug costs, Medicare and Medicaid, vaccines, mental hospital failures, gun deaths, seasonal viruses on the rise, and more.
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Chronic Lifeguard Shortage Serves as Springboard to Address Racial Inequities
Cities and towns are again in deep waters this summer trying to hire enough lifeguards to open their public pools. Many are proceeding with sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, June 5, 2025
Gun violence; health cuts in tax bill; Trump investigates Biden admin; VA spending; emergency care; UnitedHealth killing; and more.
100 Days of Health Policy Upheaval
Episode 395Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are struggling to find ways to reduce Medicaid spending without cutting benefits. Meanwhile, confusion continues to reign at the Department of Health and Human Services. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
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Morning Briefing: Monday, October 7, 2024
Medical debt, pulse oximeters, overdose deaths, Obamacare plan-switching schemes, drug prices, Hurricane Helene's aftermath, and more
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