Trending
- Nigeria Kogi state boat accident: More than 50 bodies recovered and many still missing – BBC.com
- South Africa’s illegal ‘zama-zama’ mining industry: Gang-controlled ‘towns’ grow underground – BBC.com
- Ugandan Opposition Leader Charged After Being ‘Kidnapped’ in Kenya – The New York Times
- Video: Prince William tackled by young rugby players in South Africa – CNN
- Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu orders treason charges against children to be dropped – BBC.com
- Behind Nigeria’s Fuel Tanker Explosion, a Fatal Quest for Cheap Gasoline – The New York Times
- Rigathi Gachagua trial: Kenya’s deputy president sacked by the Senate while in hospital – BBC.com
- Nigeria boycott Libya game after airport stranding – ESPN
- Manhunt underway after 17 people killed in South Africa mass shooting – CNN
- Collins Jumaisi Khalusha: Kenya police offer reward for escaped serial killer suspect – BBC.com
Browsing Category
Uncategorized
US Uninsured Rate Was Stable in 2023, Even as States’ Medicaid Purge Began
The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, close to the record low the Biden administration achieved in 2022 through expansions of public programs, including…
En los comerciales de medicamentos en TV, lo que ves no siempre es lo que es
La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de Opdivo+Yervoy, una combinación de inmunoterapias para tratar el melanoma metastásico y el cáncer…
Harris and Trump Are Ready To Take on Big Pharma
Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are both eager to take on high drug prices, leaving pharmaceutical companies on the defensive as they spend millions of dollars this election season.
When…
ACA Enrollment Platforms Suspended Over Alleged Foreign Access to Consumer Data
Suspicions that U.S. consumers’ personal information could be accessed from India led regulators to abruptly bar two large private sector enrollment websites from accessing the Affordable Care Act marketplace in August.
New…
Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More.
CLARKSBURG, Calif. — On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stood outside the small public library.
He came to…
With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get
Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination of immunotherapies to treat metastatic melanoma and lung cancer. Ads for Skyrizi, a medicine to…
Journalists Give Rundown on Bird Flu Risks, HIV Rates, and the Fate of Shuttered Hospitals
KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed farmworkers and their risk of contracting bird flu on KGNU on Sept. 5.
Click here to hear Bichell on KGNU
Read Bichell’s “With Only Gloves To Protect…
Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation
In a video posted to Reddit this summer, Lucie Rosenthal’s face starts focused and uncertain, looking intently into the camera, before it happens.
She releases a succinct, croak-like belch.
Then, it’s wide-eyed surprise,…
As Record Heat Sweeps the US, Some People Must Choose Between Food and Energy Bills
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — During the heat dome that blanketed much of the Southeast in June, Stacey Freeman used window units to cool her poorly insulated mobile home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Over the winter, the 44-year-old mom…
Errors in Deloitte-Run Medicaid Systems Can Cost Millions and Take Years To Fix
Samantha Liss and Rachana Pradhan
The computer systems run by the consulting giant Deloitte that millions of Americans rely on for Medicaid and other government benefits are prone to errors that can take years and hundreds of millions of…