DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-10-11 Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the Parts Began to Fail. Fred Schulte, KFF Health News Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades — perhaps longer. Yet in just three years, the Optetrak implant manufactured by Exactech […]
2023-10-10 Trump Misplaced Blame When He Said Drug Shortages Were Biden’s Fault Michelle Andrews “Under ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden, there has been a catastrophic increase in shortages of essential medicines.” Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in a July 24 campaign video In a recent campaign video, former President Donald Trump […]
2023-10-09 Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not? Sarah Kwon When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN felt high. Caldwell, a Black woman, had heard stories from family and friends of maternity care […]
2023-10-08 Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients Susan Jaffe Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising news from her Medicare Advantage plan: It would no longer pay for her care because she was well […]
2023-10-07 Social Security Chief Orders Broad Review of Benefit Overpayments David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group The federal agency that oversees Social Security announced Wednesday that it will review the way it handles “overpayments” — money it sends beneficiaries that it later determines they weren’t entitled to receive. The Social Security […]
2023-10-06 Facing Criticism, Feds Award First Maternal Health Grant to a Predominantly Black Rural Area Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News A federal program to combat the alarming rates of rural women dying from pregnancy complications has marked a first: It’s supporting an organization that serves predominantly Black counties in the Deep South. […]
2023-10-05 What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — On a hot July morning, customers at the Dollar General along a two-lane highway northwest of Nashville didn’t seem to notice signs of the chain store’s foray into […]
2023-10-04 More Schools Stock Overdose Reversal Meds, but Others Worry About Stigma Rae Ellen Bichell and Virginia Garcia Pivik Last year, a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at Central High School in Pueblo, Colorado. When Jessica Foster, the school district’s lead nurse, heard the girl’s distraught friends mention drugs, […]
2023-10-03 Police Blame Some Deaths on ‘Excited Delirium.’ ER Docs Consider Pulling the Plug on the Term. Markian Hawryluk and Renuka Rayasam The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, shocked him […]
2023-10-04 She Received Chemo in Two States. Why Did It Cost So Much More in Alaska? Arielle Zionts Emily Gebel was trying to figure out why she was having trouble breastfeeding. That’s when she felt a lump. Gebel, a mother of two, went to her primary care doctor in Juneau, Alaska, who referred […]