DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-08-30 Exclusive: CMS Study Sabotages Efforts to Bolster Nursing Home Staffing, Advocates Say Jordan Rau, KFF Health News The Biden administration last year promised to establish minimum staffing levels for the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes. It was the centerpiece of an agenda to overhaul an industry the government said was rife with […]
2023-08-29 More Cities Address ‘Shade Deserts’ as Extreme Heat Triggers Health Issues Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times and Jack Prator, Tampa Bay Times TAMPA, Fla. — If it weren’t for the traffic along South MacDill Avenue, Javonne Mansfield swears you could hear the sizzle of a frying pan. The sun is scorching with […]
2023-08-28 ‘All We Want Is Revenge’: How Social Media Fuels Gun Violence Among Teens Liz Szabo, KFF Health News Juan Campos has been working to save at-risk teens from gun violence for 16 years. As a street outreach worker in Oakland, California, he has seen the pull and power of gangs. And he […]
2023-08-27 California’s Medical Board Can’t Pay Its Bills, but Doctors Resist Proposed Fixes Annie Sciacca California doctors and state lawmakers are squaring off once again over the future of the Medical Board of California, which is responsible for licensing and disciplining doctors and has been criticized by patient advocates for years for being […]
2023-08-26 Dangers and Deaths Around Black Pregnancies Seen as a ‘Completely Preventable’ Health Crisis Sandy West HOUSTON — Tonjanic Hill was overjoyed in 2017 when she learned she was 14 weeks pregnant. Despite a history of uterine fibroids, she never lost faith that she would someday have a child. But, just five weeks […]
2023-08-25 Dangers and Deaths Around Black Pregnancies Seen as a ‘Completely Preventable’ Health Crisis Sandy West HOUSTON — Tonjanic Hill was overjoyed in 2017 when she learned she was 14 weeks pregnant. Despite a history of uterine fibroids, she never lost faith that she would someday have a child. But, just five weeks […]
2023-08-24 Doctors and Patients Try to Shame Insurers Online to Reverse Prior Authorization Denials Lauren Sausser Sally Nix was furious when her health insurance company refused to pay for the infusions she needs to ease her chronic pain and fatigue. Nix has struggled with a combination of autoimmune diseases since 2011. Brain and […]
2023-08-23 Life in a Rural ‘Ambulance Desert’ Means Sometimes Help Isn’t on the Way Taylor Sisk CARROLLTON, Ala. — Annie Jackson can’t know whether her sister Grena Prude might have survived had an ambulance been more readily available when she went into cardiac arrest on May 10. But Jackson is convinced her sister […]
2023-08-22 The CDC Works to Overhaul Lab Operations After Covid Test Flop Sam Whitehead In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state’s public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected with the new, rapidly spreading coronavirus. […]
2023-08-21 A Peek at Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable to Afford Their Drugs Elisabeth Rosenthal America’s pharmaceutical giants are suing this summer to block the federal government’s first effort at drug price regulation. Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act included what on its face seems a modest proposal: The federal government […]