Public Health
The Startlingly High Cost Of The ‘Free’ Flu Shot
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). In the Byzantine world of health care pricing, most people wouldn’t expect that the ubiquitous flu shot could be a prime example of how the system’s lack of transparency can lead to disparate costs. The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover all […]
Vacuna “gratuita” contra la gripe tiene un costo sorprendentemente alto
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). En el complicado mundo […]
Para bebés con problemas de audición, nuevas pruebas abren un mundo de sonidos
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). Betty Schottler, de 4 […]
New California Law May Expand Use Of HIV Prevention Drugs, With Caveats
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kellen Willhite was 24 when he learned he’d been exposed to HIV. What followed was, as he describes it, a second trauma: trying to obtain the drugs that could save him before it was too late. In 2016, a day after […]
Efforts To Move The Needle On Flu Shot Rates Get Stuck
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). It’s free and available everywhere. Yet most Americans skip the annual flu shot ― with the number of dispensed vaccines barely changed in the past decade, despite government removal of cost and access obstacles. “We are kind of spinning our wheels trying to reach […]
Listen: Neighbors Take On Corner Stores Plagued By Violence, Spoiled Food
KHN Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony was interviewed by Chicago-based host Cliff Kelley on the “America’s Heroes Group” radio show about her recent reporting on how people in low-income neighborhoods are fighting back against crime and spoiled food at their local corner stores. https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AHG-12-7-4-430_01_ClipForKHN.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. She also appeared […]
This Story Contains A Warning That Might Cause Alarm — Or Apathy
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). For more than a decade, Raymond Ho has answered calls for California’s poison emergency hotline. One that sticks out came from a panicked mom who feared that she and her child had just eaten a chemical that would give them cancer. Was it arsenic? […]
Not Yesterday’s Cocaine: Death Toll Rising From Tainted Drug
This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). CINCINNATI — A pain pill prescription for nerve damage revived Gwendolyn Barton’s long-dormant addiction last year, awakening fears she would slip back into smoking crack cocaine. She’d done that drug and others for about 20 years before getting sober in […]
Diferente a la cocaína de antes: más muertes por droga contaminada
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). CINCINNATI, Ohio – La […]
The Complex Realm Of Cloud Chasers, Coil Builders And Other Vape Modders
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). A Juul pod is not an e-cigarette is not a vape pen is not a mod. Ask any serious vaper, but then, what kind of vaper to ask? There are the nicotine casuals and those drawn to THC, the psychoactive ingredient […]