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Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). [UPDATED on Nov. 22] KHN correspondent Shefali Luthra is reporting from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. HAMBURG, Germany — In the five years she’s lived in Germany, Erin Duffin doesn’t think she has paid more than 16 euros for medical care. […]

This story also ran on HuffPost. This story can be republished for free (details). IRVINE, Calif. — Inside Obria Medical Clinics, conviction — not condoms — is summoned to stop the spread of chlamydia. The Christian medical chain, awarded $1.7 million in federal family planning funds for the first time this year, does not offer […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). On Sept. 16, Tulare County in California announced the nation’s seventh death from vaping-related illness. Its advisory warned about “the dangerous effects of using electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes.” Like so many of the official warnings coming out around the country, it lacked details about […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). [Last UPDATED on April 25, 2022] One of the nation’s most preventable diseases is killing newborns in ever-increasing numbers. Nationwide, 1,306 infants acquired syphilis from their mother in 2018, a 40% rise over 2017, according to federal data released Tuesday. Seventy-eight of those babies […]

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). Una de las enfermedades […]

This story also ran on CNN. This story can be republished for free (details). Editor’s note: November news reports indicate President Donald Trump is backing away from the regulations on flavored vaping products he announced this fall. This KHN story was one of the first to detail the politics of the vaping movement. Vapers across […]

This story also ran on People. This story can be republished for free (details). “I stopped for a few days and then I ended up buying new pods. The withdrawals got to me.” “My friends are the ones who got me into vaping. And they think I shouldn’t stop, but I want to because I […]

This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). DENVER — Every day that Janet van der Laak drives between car dealerships in her sales job, she keeps size 12 shoes, some clothes and a packed lunch — a PB&J sandwich, fruit and a granola bar — beside her […]