Public Health
Cuando cuidar al cónyuge enfermo afecta los cimientos del matrimonio
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). Durante una docena de […]
When Caring For A Sick Spouse Shakes A Marriage To The Core
This story also ran on AARP. This story can be republished for free (details). Navigating Aging Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 60 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system. To contact Judith Graham with a question or comment, click here. Join the […]
Listen: HHS Files Challenge Over Rights To Gilead’s HIV-Prevention Drug
KHN’s Shefali Luthra spoke with Jeremy Hobsons, host of WBUR’s Hear & Now, about the Trump administration’s lawsuit over sales of the HIV-prevention drug Truvada. ( function() { var func = function() { var iframe = document.getElementById(‘wpcom-iframe-1a723c1b4839059fefa5f1f776546ec3’) if ( iframe ) { iframe.onload = function() { iframe.contentWindow.postMessage( { ‘msg_type’: ‘poll_size’, ‘frame_id’: ‘wpcom-iframe-1a723c1b4839059fefa5f1f776546ec3’ }, “https://embeds.kff.org” ); […]
Flavor Bans Multiply, But Menthol Continues to Divide
This story also ran on HuffPost. This story can be republished for free (details). As states and communities rush to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products linked to vaping, Carol McGruder races from town to town, urging officials to include what she calls “the mother lode of all flavors”: menthol. McGruder, co-chair of the […]
How Germany Averted An Opioid Crisis
This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). KHN correspondent Shefali Luthra reported this article from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. HAMBURG, Germany ― In 2016, 10 times as many Americans as Germans died as a result of drug overdoses, mostly opiates. Three times as […]
Sit, Heal: Dog Teaches Military Med Students The Merits Of Service Animals
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). The newest faculty member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences has a great smile — and a wagging tail. Shetland, not quite 2 years old, is half golden retriever, half Labrador retriever. As of this fall, he is […]
Médicos militares aprenden el valor de los perros que ayudan a sanar
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. El nuevo miembro académico de la Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) tiene […]
Some Academics Quietly Take Side Jobs Helping Tobacco Companies In Court
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More Adolescents Seek Medical Care For Mental Health Issues
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Less than a decade ago, the emergency department at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego would see maybe one or two young psychiatric patients per day, said Dr. Benjamin Maxwell, the hospital’s interim director of child and adolescent psychiatry. Now, it’s not unusual for […]
Más adolescentes buscan atención médica para sus problemas de salud mental
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. Hace menos de una década, el departamento de emergencias del Rady Children’s Hospital de San […]