Attack On Asthma Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than To Fix After years of studying the causes of asthma, a pediatrician-turned-public health sleuth thinks there’s a way to substantially reduce its impact. But the approach faces a big hurdle: getting someone to pay for it, said Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, a professor […]

This story also ran on Here & Now. This story can be republished for free (details). The Face Of Hepatitis C Is Getting Younger This story by KHN Sacramento correspondent Pauline Bartolone aired Dec. 1, 2017, on Here & Now. https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/bur2303742174.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. UKIAH, Calif. — Once a […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). That bag of frozen cauliflower sitting inside your freezer likely sprang to life in a vast field north of Salinas, Calif. A crew of men and women here use a machine to drop seedlings into the black soil. Another group follows […]

SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Esa bolsa de coliflor […]

This story also ran on The Washington Post. This story can be republished for free (details). Schenectady County, N.Y., is on track to pay 20 percent less on prescription drugs for its employees this year than in 2003. Flagler County, Fla., expects to save nearly $200,000 in 2017 on brand-name medicines for its 800 workers, […]

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). In his view, Tim Franson utterly failed at retirement. After 20 years as a high-ranking vice president at drugmaker Eli Lilly, Franson and his wife, Chris, a successful real estate agent, thought they were quietly retiring nearly a decade ago […]

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This story also ran on The Washington Post. This story can be republished for free (details). Consider it America’s other prescription drug epidemic. For decades, experts have warned that older Americans are taking too many unnecessary drugs, often prescribed by multiple doctors, for dubious or unknown reasons. Researchers estimate that 25 percent of people ages […]

SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Es la otra epidemia […]