Public Health
Fallout From ‘Nuclear Button’ Tweets: Sales Of Anti-Radiation Drug Skyrocket
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). A Twitter battle over the size of each “nuclear button” possessed by President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has spiked sales of a drug that protects against radiation poisoning. Troy Jones, who runs the website www.nukepills.com, said demand for […]
Hospital Honchos Hone New Message In Wake Of Opioid Epidemic: Expect Pain
This story is part of a partnership that includes Nashville Public Radio, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). Doctors at some of the largest U.S. hospital chains admit they went overboard with opioids to make people as pain-free as possible, and now they shoulder part of the blame […]
When You Need A Breast Screening, Should You Get A 3-D Mammogram?
When I went to the imaging center for my regular mammogram last year, the woman behind the desk asked me if I’d like to get a “3-D” mammogram instead of the standard test I’d had in the past. “It’s more accurate,” she said. What do you say to that? “No, thanks, I’d rather have the […]
Inside The Global Race To Deliver A Vital Radioactive Isotope Used To Detect Cancer
This story also ran on The New York Times. This story can be republished for free (details). JANESVILLE, Wis. — In a cornfield here, past the shuttered General Motors plant and the Janesville Terrace trailer home park, a facility not seen in the United States in three decades could soon rise: a manufacturing plant that […]
Postcard From California: Alzheimer’s ‘Looks Like Me, It Looks Like You’
Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Until last year, Jackie Coleman was a disability rights lawyer — a good one, too. “I was an excellent attorney,” recalled the 63-year-old Rancho Cordova, Calif., resident who loved her job and was proud […]
¿Son necesarias las mamografías en tres dimensiones?
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 Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More […]
If Poor Neighborhood = Poor Health, Relocation Is One Solution
This story also ran on PBS NewsHour. This story can be republished for free (details). When low-income Americans are concentrated in substandard homes in struggling or violent neighborhoods, it has tangible consequences for well-being. Research confirms that moving families into less segregated neighborhoods improves overall health, and some communities are giving families vouchers to relocate. […]
When Food Stamps Pass As Tickets To Better Health
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own kids because the spiky, fibrous vegetables were too […]
Con incentivos en cupones de alimentos, ayudan a latinos a comer más sano
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). Rebeca González creció comiendo […]
Judge Orders New Olympus Trial Over Superbug Death
This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. This story can be republished for free (details). A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was publicly tied to deadly superbug outbreaks. Citing those […]