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Uno de los dos programas de formación de enfermeras parteras de California ha dejado de admitir estudiantes mientras renueva su plan de estudios para ofrecer sólo doctorados, una medida que ha generado protestas de ex alumnos,…

Finding a nursing home for yourself or a parent can be daunting. Many facilities are understaffed and the worker shortages have gotten worse since the start of the pandemic. KFF Health News senior correspondent Jordan Rau shares tips about…

One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from alumni, health policy experts,…

GREELEY, Colorado — A principios de agosto, trabajadores agrícolas se reunieron en un parque de Greeley para celebrar con un picnic el Día de Apreciación del Trabajador Agrícola. Un signo de que este año fue diferente de los…

La Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA) ha aprobado una vacuna actualizada contra covid para todas las personas de 6 meses en adelante, lo que renueva un dilema que ahora es anual: ¿Recibir la vacuna ya, con el brote de…

En medio de una amarga y divisiva contienda, el ex presidente Donald Trump y la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris solo parecen coincidir en una cosa: es tarea del gobierno reducir los altos precios de los medicamentos en el país.…

GREELEY, Colo. — In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas,…

Aneri Pattani and Henry Larweh and Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA The conversation wasn’t sounding good for Kensington residents on June 20. The Philadelphia neighborhood is a critical center of the nation’s opioid crisis, and…

Fred Schulte, KFF Health News A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” from the…

Elisabeth Rosenthal A hard-won provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their family’s health insurance until age 26. But after that, those without employer-sponsored insurance face an array of complicated…