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This story also ran on The New York Times. This story can be republished for free (details). About This Series In this series, “Treatment Overkill,” Kaiser Health News investigates the causes and consequences of medical overtreatment, both for patients and the health care system. See All Stories When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). ATLANTA — While public safety commissioner Bull Connor’s police dogs in 1963 attacked civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Ala., leaders in Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown of Atlanta were burnishing its reputation as “the city too busy to hate.” Yet 50 […]

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). Cuando era una joven […]

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). Every week in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Zibin Guo guides veterans in wheelchairs through slow-motion tai chi poses as a Bluetooth speaker plays soothing instrumental music. “Cloudy hands to the right, cloudy […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). LOS ANGELES — Tangi Foster raised her left arm to show two puncture wounds where nurses insert needles several times a week. She’s been on dialysis for 10 years and has received treatment at several different centers. She left the first because she saw […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). A security breach by a private company that contracted with California’s public health department inadvertently allowed unauthorized access to the HIV status of 93 people, according to a lawsuit filed this week in San Francisco County Superior Court. New York-based nonprofit Lambda Legal filed […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). Editor’s Note: This story was revised on April 18 at 5 p.m. ET to correct the description of the legislation proposed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul. The bill would allow Medicare beneficiaries to visit an audiologist to get a […]

Kaiser Health News correspondent Shefali Luthra was interviewed as part of C-SPAN’s in-depth examination of recent developments regarding the nation’s opioid crisis. Luthra talked about ideas circulating around Capitol Hill — in hearings, in legislation and in budget measures — to combat the problem, as well as how states have been responding, among other things. […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). It is so common that it likely will have happened at least once somewhere in the United States by the time you finish reading this sentence. But it took more than 230 years for it to happen to a senator. On […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). By the time Ann Marie Owen turned to marijuana to treat her pain, she was struggling to walk and talk. She also hallucinated. For four years, her doctor prescribed the 61-year-old a wide range of opioids for her transverse myelitis, a […]