2023-07-03 A New Law Is Supposed to Protect Pregnant Workers — But What If We Don’t Know How? Gina Jiménez Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa […]

    2023-07-02 Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It Darius Tahir and Simon Fondrie-Teitler, The Markup Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers […]

    3023-07-01 Will the Doctor See You Now? The Health System’s Changing Landscape Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Michelle Andrews Lucia Agajanian, a 25-year-old freelance film producer in Chicago, doesn’t have a specific primary care doctor, preferring the convenience of visiting a local clinic for flu shots or going online for video visits. […]

    2023-06-30 Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction Taylor Sisk DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given her first Percocet at age 12 by a family member with a medicine cabinet full. […]

    2023-06-29 The DEA Relaxed Online Prescribing Rules During Covid. Now It Wants to Rein Them In. Arielle Zionts Federal regulators want most patients to see a health care provider in person before receiving prescriptions for potentially addictive medicines through telehealth — something that hasn’t been required in more than three years. During the […]

  2023-06-28 The Hospital Bills Didn’t Find Her, but a Lawsuit Did — Plus Interest Bram Sable-Smith Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016. She knew it was triggered by food, so she said she tried taking an antacid. That helped a little, but, eventually, she avoided […]

    2023-06-26 Advocates Call for 911 Changes. Police Have Mixed Feelings. Molly Castle Work SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A mountain of evidence shows police often fail to respond properly to people experiencing a mental health crisis. It can lead to avoidable deaths and criminalization of mental illness, especially among people of color. A poll commissioned by […]

    2023-06-25 Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity care has bypassed Black mothers, who are at the highest risk of complications and death […]

    2023-06-24 Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon Harris Meyer A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal […]