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California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others in regulating the middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, whom many policymakers blame for…
La tasa de personas sin seguro médico se mantiene estable, a pesar de la purga de Medicaid
La proporción de personas sin seguro de salud se mantuvo estable en 2023, informó la Oficina del Censo. Fue solo un poco más alta que el récord del año anterior, gracias a la expansión de programas públicos de la administración…
Polémica estrategia contra la violencia con armas de fuego pone a policías armados en las escuelas
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania. — En marzo de 2023, la falsa alarma de que un hombre armado andaba recorriendo escuelas secundarias católicas desencadenó una fuerte respuesta policial y evacuaciones aterradoras en la ciudad. También…
Décadas de programas nacionales contra el suicidio no han frenado estas muertes
Si tú o alguien que conoces pudiera estar pasando por una crisis de salud mental, comunícate con la línea directa de suicidio y crisis 988, marcando o enviando un mensaje de texto al “988”.
Cuando el hermano menor de Pooja…
Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart
Cara Anthony
In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob.
Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least…
Historic Numbers of Americans Live by Themselves as They Age
Gerri Norington, 78, never wanted to be on her own as she grew old.
But her first marriage ended in divorce, and her second husband died more than 30 years ago. When a five-year relationship came to a close in 2006, she found…
A Possible Downside to Limits on Teens’ Access to Social Media
In 1982, then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that video games might be hazardous to young people’s health, a statement he later walked back, acknowledging it had no basis in science.
These days, state and federal…
Tossed Medicine, Delayed Housing: How Homeless Sweeps Are Thwarting Medicaid’s Goals
SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin…
Decades of National Suicide Prevention Policies Haven’t Slowed the Deaths
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
When Pooja Mehta’s younger brother, Raj, died by suicide at 19 in March 2020, she…
Journalists Explore Breast Cancer Rates and the Medical Response to Mass Shootings
KFF Health News contributor Phillip Reese discussed the rapid rise of breast cancer rates among Asian American and Pacific Islander women on KCBS Radio on Sept. 7.
Click to hear Reese on KCBS.
Read Reese’s “Breast Cancer…