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Letters to the Editor is a periodic Kaiser Health News feature. KHN welcomes all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Foaming At The Mouth Over Dental Insurance? In response to the revelation that a 61-year-old academic had to rely on handouts from his mom to cough up […]

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This story is part of a partnership that includes KJZZ, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). Hundreds of survivors of domestic violence have come through the doors of neurologist Glynnis Zieman’s Phoenix clinic in the past three years. “The domestic violence patients are the next chapter of brain […]

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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. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). En los últimos tres […]

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). A heated debate is redrawing alliances in the tobacco control movement as federal officials wrestle with how to regulate the growing e-cigarette market. The players include researchers, smoking-cessation advocates and “vaping” connoisseurs. “It’s become very divisive in a community that […]

KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney, on assignment in Puerto Rico, spoke with Mina Kim, host of KQED Forum, on Friday — the first day of hurricane season. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week estimated that more than 4,600 people perished during and after the Sept. 20 storm. A third of […]

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This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). Fashion designer Kate Spade’s death Tuesday has reminded Americans of the enormous toll of suicide, a growing problem that claims nearly 45,000 lives a year. Suicide rates in the U.S. have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999, according to a […]

KHN senior correspondent Liz Szabo discusses the news that as many as 70 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer may not need chemotherapy. Szabo joined host Joshua Johnson and two cancer experts on WAMU’s radio show “1A” on Tuesday. Related Topics Public Health Audio Cancer Women’s Health