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Medicaid Unwinding Deals Blow to Tenuous System of Care for Native Americans
About a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility after the covid-19 public health emergency, more than 20 million people have been kicked off the joint federal-state program for low-income families.
A…
Journalists Broach Topics From Treating Shooting Victims to Sunscreen Safety
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Watch: John Oliver Dishes on KFF Health News’ Opioid Settlements Series
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute our journalism for free and without advertising through media partners of…
The Lure of Specialty Medicine Pulls Nurse Practitioners From Primary Care
For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for.
But NPs in specialty care? That’s not…
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal.
Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA and Sarah Boden, WESA
Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal.
On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe.
In the…
Medics at UCLA Protest Say Police Weapons Drew Blood and Cracked Bones
Inside the protesters’ encampment at UCLA, beneath the glow of hanging flashlights and a deafening backdrop of exploding flash-bangs, OB-GYN resident Elaine Chan suddenly felt like a battlefield medic.
Police were pushing…
Addiction Treatment Homes Say Montana’s Funding Fixes Don’t Go Far Enough
Montana health officials have started a voucher system to help people with substance use disorders move into transitional housing as they rebuild their lives. But those who run the clinical houses said the new money isn’t enough…
Federal Panel Prescribes New Mental Health Strategy To Curb Maternal Deaths
For help, call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262) or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Spanish-language services are also available.…
California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In
TURLOCK, Calif. — For much of his young life, Jorge Sanchez regularly gasped for air, at times coughing so violently that he’d almost throw up. His mother whisked him to the emergency room late at night and slept with him to make…
The Psychedelics-As-Medicine Movement Spreads to California
Ecstasy, “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelic drugs could soon be recognized as therapeutic in California — one of the latest states, and the biggest, to consider allowing their use as medicine.
Legislation by state Sen.…