Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
Amy Maxmen and Arthur Allen Stanford University infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan has seen a lot of patients with runny...
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Biden Wants Hospitals To Report Data on Gunshot Wounds
The Biden administration is enlisting America’s doctors to help combat gun violence. About 160 health-care executives and officials have been...
Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
A company that makes tests for lead poisoning has agreed to resolve criminal charges that it concealed for years a...
California Becomes Latest State To Try Capping Health Care Spending
California’s Office of Health Care Affordability faces a herculean task in its plan to slow runaway health care spending. The...
Safety-Net Health Clinics Cut Services and Staff Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding’
Katheryn Houghton One of Montana’s largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off...
Waiting for SCOTUS – KFF Health News
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of...
Psychoactive Drugs Are Having a Moment. The FDA Will Soon Weigh In.
Dawn Megli Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved...
FDA Urged To Relax Decades-Old Tissue Donation Restrictions for Gay and Bisexual Men
The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed who it said could safely donate organs and blood, reducing the restrictions...
The South Can Be a Dangerous Place To Be Black and Pregnant
In much of the developed world, dying while pregnant or delivering a child is practically unknown. In Australia, for example,...
Los Angeles County Launches Ambitious Plan To Tackle Medical Debt. Hospitals Groan.
Molly Castle Work LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the nation...
Watch: Medical Residents Are Increasingly Avoiding Abortion Ban States
May 21, 2024 Article HTML On KFF Health News’ “What the Health?,” chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner sat down with...
