End of Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Households Threatens Telehealth Access Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she spent on her monthly internet bill before the federal Affordable Connectivity Program stepped in and […]

  Dietary Choices Are Linked to Higher Rates of Preeclampsia Among Latinas Vanessa G. Sánchez For pregnant Latinas, food choices could reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous type of high blood pressure, and a diet based on cultural food preferences, rather than on U.S. government benchmarks, is more likely to help ward off the […]

  The Horrors of TMJ: Chronic Pain, Metal Jaws, and Futile Treatments Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw. Another woman in California, desperate for relief, used a screwdriver to lengthen her jawbone daily, turning screws […]

  Medical Debt Affects Much of America, but Colorado Immigrants Are Hit Especially Hard Rae Ellen Bichell and Lindsey Toomer, Colorado Newsline DENVER — In February, Norma Brambila’s teenage daughter wrote her a letter she now carries in her purse. It is a drawing of a rose, and a note encouraging Brambila to “keep fighting” […]

  More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in […]

  For-Profit Companies Open Psychiatric Hospitals in Areas Clamoring for Care Tony Leys GRINNELL, Iowa — A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a national trend toward having such hospitals owned by investors instead of by state governments or nonprofit health systems. The companies see […]

  A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox Céline Gounder Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health Organization. As a college student in the 1990s, I was fascinated by the sheer […]

  The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients Judith Graham Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty […]

  As AI Eye Exams Prove Their Worth, Lessons for Future Tech Emerge Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform eye exams with pictures taken by a retinal camera. It makes quick diagnoses, without […]

  Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year Arthur Allen One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life. Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, […]