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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 presidente Donald Trump se muestra impaciente por reducir la ayuda de emergencia a Puerto […]

The Trump administration’s recently announced changes to health insurance rules have raised concerns among people wondering how they’ll be affected. This week, I address some of the questions likely on people’s minds. Q: IUDS are expensive. Will they be unaffordable under the new contraceptive rules announced by the Trump administration? Should people make an appointment […]

Listen here to Pauline Bartolone’s radio version of this story, which first ran on Capital Public Radio. https://kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/pb-tvfh.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. During the five years Tony Price roamed the streets and dozed in doorways, the emergency rooms of Sacramento’s hospitals were a regular place for him to sleep off […]

As 20 Americans and Brits flew to a Caribbean island for a controversial herpes vaccine trial, many of them knew there were risks. The lead U.S. researcher, William Halford, openly acknowledged he was flouting Food and Drug Administration regulations in the consent forms they signed. He would be injecting them with a live, though weakened, […]

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Rose Crumb can’t even count the number of people she’s helped die. The former nurse, 91, who retired in her mid-80s, considers the question and then shakes her head, her blue eyes sharp above oval spectacles. “Oh, hundreds,” estimates Crumb, the woman who almost single-handedly brought hospice care to this remote […]

CONCORD, Calif. — During a 15-minute recess, the elementary school students trooped from the playground toward nurse Catherin Crofton’s office — one with a bloody nose, a second with a scraped knee and a third with a headache. Kids quickly filled a row of chairs. Staffers brought paper towels for the bleeders and tried to […]

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. CONCORD, California- Durante un recreo de 15 minutos, tres estudiantes de escuela primaria fueron a […]

Listen here to Anna Gorman’s radio version of this story, as it ran on Here & Now. https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/bur4937905073.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. LAS VEGAS — Kurt Fowler and his wife, Trina, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary at a country music festival when the shooting started. Fowler, 41, knew he’d […]

SONOMA, Calif. — Even when fire threatened her home in downtown Sonoma, the elderly woman inside who was suffering from late-stage cancer refused to leave. She had returned home to die in peace, after all. Smoke was everywhere. Her caretaker begged her to heed the mandatory evacuation order. Another woman on the outskirts of town, […]

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. California ya tiene marihuana medicinal. Y ahora hay evidencia de que la hierba podría funcionar […]