2023-09-10 In Move to Slash CDC Budget, House Republicans Target Major HIV Program Trump Launched Andy Miller and Sam Whitehead More than four years ago, then-President Donald Trump declared an ambitious goal that had bipartisan support: ending the HIV epidemic in the United States. Now, that Trump program is one of several health […]

    2023-09-09 Activist Misuses Federal Data to Make False Claim That Covid Vaccines Killed 676,000 Tom Kertscher, PolitiFact Covid-19 vaccines have killed 676,000 Americans. Steve Kirsch in an Aug. 6, 2023, blog post A blog post shared on Facebook claimed that covid-19 vaccines have killed some 676,000 Americans. The post was written by anti-vaccine […]

    2023-09-08 Cozy Images of Plush Toys and Blankets Counter Messaging on Safe Infant Sleep Colleen DeGuzman Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: “Most importantly, I’m Charlie’s dad.” Hanke remembers the night 13 years ago when Charlie, then 3 […]

    2023-09-07 Even in the Most Depressed County in America, Stigma Around Mental Illness Persists Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News LOGAN, W.Va. — Sitting on a bench laughing with a co-worker during a morning smoke break, Debra Orcutt quickly raises her hand when asked if she knows anyone dealing with depression. “I am,” she […]

    2023-09-06 Mississippi’s Cervical Cancer Deaths Indicate Broader Health Care Problems Virginia Anderson Shementé Jones knew something wasn’t right. Her back hurt. She felt pain during sex. She said she kept telling her doctor something was wrong. Her doctor told her, “Just wash your underwear in Dreft,” Jones said, referring to a brand of […]

    Workers Pay the Price While Congress and Employers Debate Need for Heat Regulations Amy Maxmen September 5, 2023 Sometimes the heat makes you vomit, said Carmen Garcia, a farmworker in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She and her husband spent July in the garlic fields, kneeling on the scorched earth as temperatures […]

    2023-09-04 When Temps Rise, So Do Medical Risks. Should Doctors and Nurses Talk More About Heat? Martha Bebinger, WBUR An important email appeared in the inboxes of a small group of health care workers north of Boston as this summer started. It warned that local temperatures were rising into the 80s. An 80-plus-degree […]

    2023-09+03 Biden Administration Proposes New Standards to Boost Nursing Home Staffing Jordan Rau, KFF Health News The nation’s most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades. The proposed […]

    2023-09-02 She Paid Her Husband’s Hospital Bill. A Year After His Death, They Wanted More Money. Samantha Liss Last summer, Eloise Reynolds paid the bill for her husband’s final stay in the hospital. In February 2022, doctors said that Kent, her husband of 33 years, was too weak for the routine chemotherapy that […]

    2023-08-31 Artificial Intelligence May Influence Whether You Can Get Pain Medication Andy Miller and Sam Whitehead Elizabeth Amirault had never heard of a Narx Score. But she said she learned last year the tool had been used to track her medication use. During an August 2022 visit to a hospital in Fort Wayne, […]