Public Health
Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Baffles Medical Experts While Frightening Parents
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). A spike in the number of children with a rare neurological disease that causes polio-like symptoms has health officials across the country scrambling to understand the illness. Yet, more than four years after health officials first recorded the most recent uptick in cases, much […]
Enfermedad similar a la polio desconcierta a médicos y aterra a padres
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). Un aumento en el […]
Health Care Tops Guns, Economy As Voters’ Top Issue
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Health care has emerged as the top issue for voters headed into the midterm elections, but fewer than half of them say they are hearing a lot from candidates on the issue, according to a new poll released Thursday. Seven in 10 people list […]
Gavin Newsom Is Bullish On Single-Payer — Except When He’s Not
This story also ran on Mic. This story can be republished for free (details). Twenty minutes before the only scheduled 2018 California’s gubernatorial debate, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled into the San Francisco parking garage in a black SUV. Through the tinted windows, a soft overhead light slightly illuminated the front-runner’s chiseled features and slicked-back […]
Médicos de atención primaria “no hacen lo suficiente” para frenar infecciones sexuales
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. Forma parte del grupo de Facebook de Kaiser Health News en español “KHN-Hablemos de Salud”. […]
Readers And Tweeters: Are Millennials Killing The Primary Care Doctor?
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Health Care Wasted On The Young I feel Sandra Boodman’s thesis is inadequate without a historical comparison to how young people accessed health care five, 10 or 20 years ago […]
Heart Drug Spotlights Troubling Trends In Drug Marketing
This story also ran on The Daily Beast. This story can be republished for free (details). At the end of September, Amarin Corp. teased some early findings for Vascepa, its preventive medicine for people at risk of heart disease. The claim was astounding: a 25 percent relative risk reduction for deaths related to heart attacks, […]
Tobacco Tax Battle Could Torch Montana Medicaid Expansion
This story is part of a reporting partnership with Montana Public Radio, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). Montana legislators expanded Medicaid by a very close vote in 2015. They passed the measure with an expiration date: It would sunset in 2019, and all who went onto the rolls […]
Soda Industry Steals Page From Tobacco To Combat Taxes On Sugary Drinks
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). In the run-up to the midterm elections, the soda industry has poured millions of dollars into fighting taxes on sugary drinks, an increasingly popular approach to combating obesity, which affects 40 percent of American adults. Soda makers have campaigned against sugary […]
New Contractor For Food Stamps Upsets Cart For Farmers Markets
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). When the woman stopped by Phil Munson’s stall at a Rochester, N.Y., farmers market recently, he noticed a change. A regular customer, she browsed his Fisher Hill Farm vegetables as usual and selected a few to buy. But this time, instead […]