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They Were Injured at the Super Bowl Parade. A Month Later, They Feel Forgotten.
KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration. Listen to how one Kansas family is coping with...
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As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups...
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law...
View ArticleHow National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect...
ST. LOUIS — In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They...
View ArticleRapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest
From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross the sprawling Navajo Nation searching for patients who have tested positive for or...
View ArticleThe Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
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...
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For-Profit Companies Open Psychiatric Hospitals in Areas Clamoring for Care
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...
View ArticleHospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
Nonprofit hospitals created largely to serve the poor are adding concierge physician practices, charging patients annual membership fees of $2,000 or more for easier access to their doctors. It’s a...
View ArticleEnd of Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Households Threatens Telehealth Access
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...
View ArticleCongress Likely to Kick the Can on Covid-Era Telehealth Policies
Nearly two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five witnesses: “Hang with us.” Federal lawmakers face a year-end deadline to...
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KFF Health News''What the Health?': Arizona Turns Back the Clock on Abortion...
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A...
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Swap Funds or Add Services? Use of Opioid Settlement Cash Sparks Strong...
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has ravaged America for decades. But instead of spending the money on new addiction...
View ArticleConservative Justices Stir Trouble for Republican Politicians on Abortion
Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last week, a win for the anti-abortion camp caused political blowback for Republican...
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Native Americans Have Shorter Life Spans. Better Health Care Isn’t the Only...
HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she’s lost six...
View ArticleMedicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many...
Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing...
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He Thinks His Wife Died in an Understaffed Hospital. Now He’s Trying to...
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death. The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov....
View ArticleMedical Providers Still Grappling With UnitedHealth Cyberattack: ‘More...
Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still grappling with the fallout, even though UnitedHealth told...
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Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies
KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration in February. Listen to the stories of two people shot that...
View ArticlePaid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish
Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one. “I didn’t have any teeth to...
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Their First Baby Came With Medical Debt. These Illinois Parents Won’t Have...
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural...
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Democrats Seek To Make GOP Pay for Threats to Reproductive Rights
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Democrat Lucas Kunce is trying to pin reproductive care restrictions on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), betting it will boost his chances of unseating the incumbent in November. In a...
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