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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. Hace poco fui cojeando a la farmacia para retirar una receta de analgésicos, después de […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). The roast turkey and pecan pie may be the same as always, but growing numbers of families plan to add a tradition to their Thanksgiving holiday this week: a frank talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. Paul Malley, president of […]

Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish Since her son Matt was an infant, Lynda Mitchell knew he had a milk allergy. She controlled the symptoms by switching his baby formula. But when he was 1, Halloween proved horrifying. While trick-or-treating in a pumpkin […]

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. Cuando su hijo Matt todavía era un bebé, Lynda Mitchell ya sabía que era alérgico […]

This story also ran on Bloomberg. This story can be republished for free (details). In April 2014, state and federal drug agents raided Jeffrey Campbell’s medical clinic in Jeffersonville, Ind. Police cars blocked the parking lot as bewildered patients scattered and the agents carted off boxes of records from the doctor’s office. Some of the […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). WESTMINSTER, Calif. — After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana. The 14-year-old took the class again this […]

This story also ran on The Daily Beast. This story can be republished for free (details). WASHINGTON — The university that employed a controversial herpes vaccine researcher has told the federal government it learned last summer of the possibility of his illegal experimentation on human subjects. But Southern Illinois University did not publicly disclose the […]

People With HIV Went Weeks Without Meds After Hurricane Harvey This story by KHN senior national correspondent Sarah Varney aired Nov. 24, 2017, on Here & Now. https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/20171124_hereandnow_harvey-texans-hiv-medication.mp3 Can’t see the audio player? Click here to download. Angelia Soloman watched out the window of her ranch house in northeastern Houston as the floodwaters rose up […]

Attack On Asthma Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than To Fix After years of studying the causes of asthma, a pediatrician-turned-public health sleuth thinks there’s a way to substantially reduce its impact. But the approach faces a big hurdle: getting someone to pay for it, said Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, a professor […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). That bag of frozen cauliflower sitting inside your freezer likely sprang to life in a vast field north of Salinas, Calif. A crew of men and women here use a machine to drop seedlings into the black soil. Another group follows […]