DON'T EVER GIVE UP
Being Black and Pregnant in the Deep South Can Be a Dangerous Combination Lauren Sausser O’laysha Davis was a few weeks shy of her due date when in mid-August she decided it was time to switch doctors. Davis had planned to give birth at a small community hospital about 20 minutes from […]
Biology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too Samantha Liss Jasen Gundersen never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly three decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor. But, today, he isn’t working in rural America and he doesn’t do primary care. In fact, he […]
2023-12-11 Colorado Blames Biden Team and Drugmakers for Delaying Canadian Imports Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Colorado officials say their plan to import cheaper medicines from Canada has been stymied by opposition from drugmakers and inaction by the Biden administration, according to a state report obtained by KFF Health News. The Dec. 1 […]
2023-12-10 Food Sovereignty Movement Sprouts as Bison Return to Indigenous Communities Jim Robbins BOZEMAN, Mont. — Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing. Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow. The seeds for some of […]
2023-12-09 These Programs Put Unused Prescription Drugs in the Hands of Patients in Need Kate Ruder COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On a recent November evening, Angie Phoenix waited at a pharmacy here in Colorado’s second-largest city to pick up prescription drugs to treat her high blood pressure and arm seizures. But this transaction […]
2023-12-08 Grassroots College Networks Distribute Emergency Contraceptives on Campus Michelle Andrews Limya Harvey and Cydney Mumford set up a folding table a few times a month on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus to give away kits containing emergency contraceptives, condoms, and lube, or menstrual products like tampons and pads. They typically bring […]
2023-12-07 Many People of Color Worry Good Health Care Is Tied to Their Appearance Colleen DeGuzman Many people from racial and ethnic minority groups brace themselves for insults and judgments before medical appointments, according to a new survey of patients that reaffirms the prevalence of racial discrimination in the U.S. health system. The […]
2023-12-06 Patients Expected Profemur Artificial Hips to Last. Then They Snapped in Half. Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of […]
2023-12-04 Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors Julie Appleby, KFF Health News A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals. Across the country, health care providers are refusing to accept some Medicare Advantage plans […]
2023-12-03 ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don’t Warn Residents Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Bill Eisenman has always fished. “Growing up, we ate whatever we caught — catfish, carp, freshwater drum,” he said. “That was the only real source of fish in our diet as a family, and we […]