Why Is Finding Covid Shots for Young Children Still So Hard?
On Sept. 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the next round of covid shots for everyone 6...
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Suzanne Somers’ Legacy Tainted by Celebrity Medical Misinformation
Liz Szabo, KFF Health News Before there was Gwyneth Paltrow or Jenny McCarthy or Dr. Oz, there was Suzanne Somers....
Doctors Abandon a Diagnosis Used to Justify Police Custody Deaths. It Might Live On, Anyway.
Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah...
Journalists Offer Insights on Mobile Clinics and Suicide Prevention
KFF Health News chief rural health correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed Dollar General mobile clinics on NPR’s “All Things Considered”...
Health Funding in Question in a Speaker-Less Congress
The Host As House Republicans struggle — again — to decide who will lead them, the clock is ticking on...
Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them
Global fears of overpopulation in the ’60s and ’70s helped fuel India’s campaign to slow population growth. Health workers tasked...
Police Blame Some Deaths on ‘Excited Delirium.’ ER Docs Consider Pulling the Plug on the Term.
The way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after...
Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?
When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN...
What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — On a hot July morning, customers at the Dollar General along a two-lane highway northwest of Nashville...
Facing Criticism, Feds Award First Maternal Health Grant to a Predominantly Black Rural Area
A federal program to combat the alarming rates of rural women dying from pregnancy complications has marked a first: It’s...
These Appalachia Hospitals Made Big Promises to Gain a Monopoly. They’re Failing to Deliver.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Five years ago, rival hospital companies in this blue-collar corner of Appalachia made a deal. If...
