Public Health

KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed how the covid-19 pandemic has affected home health care and those with disabilities on WBEZ’s “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” on March 21. Listen to Weber on “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” Read Weber and Andy Miller’s “Desperate for Cash: Programs for People With Disabilities Still Not Seeing Federal Funds” Read […]

Dr. Céline Gounder, KHN editor-at-large for public health, discusses that new omicron subvariant, how to know if your runny nose is spring allergies or covid-19 (that’s hard!), and the debate over whether Americans will need a fourth vaccination.

Durante tres agotadores años, Lauren Lockwood intentó que su hijo Rex durmiera toda la noche. Cuando era bebé, no podía dormir sin que una manta lo cubriera por completo para aislarse del mundo exterior. A los 2 años, a veces tardaba horas en dormirse —y su mamá también—, y luego se despertaba de golpe, aterrorizado […]

MODESTO, California.- Una de las primeras tareas del día de Patrick Green es abrir un grifo y llenar una botella con lodo. Como operador de una planta de servicios públicos en Modesto, una ciudad de casi un cuarto de millón de habitantes en el Valle de San Joaquín, en California, Green ayuda a mantener el […]

MODESTO, Calif. — One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge. A utilities plant operator in Modesto, a city of nearly a quarter-million people in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Green helps keep the city’s sewers flowing and its wastewater treated to acceptable […]

For three exhausting years, Lauren Lockwood tried to get her son Rex to sleep through the night. As an infant, he couldn’t sleep without a blanket over his carrier to drown out the world around him. At age 2, it sometimes took hours for him — and her — to fall asleep, only for him […]

When the Biden administration announced a set of proposed nursing home reforms last month, consumer advocates were both pleased and puzzled. The reforms call for minimum staffing requirements, stronger regulatory oversight, and better public information about nursing home quality — measures advocates have promoted for years. Yet they don’t address residents’ rights to have contact […]

Charlie O’Neill received part of her husband’s liver in a 2013 living donor transplant and has been taking drugs that suppress her immune system ever since to prevent her body from attacking the organ. “I frequently get infections,” she said. “Just being an immune-compromised person, you are faced with just every little cold and flu.” […]

When Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said March 13 that all Americans would need a second booster shot, it struck many covid experts as a self-serving remark without scientific merit. It also set off spasms of doubt over the country’s objectives in its fight against the coronavirus. The decision on how often and widely to vaccinate […]

Los sonidos de las ambulancias, las bocinas de los autos y el bullicio del tráfico se filtraban en la oficina del doctor Daniel Turner-Lloveras en un alto edificio del centro de Los Ángeles, mientras se acomodaba en su sofá para atender una llamada. En el otro extremo de la línea, mirando una pared verde menta […]