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AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change
Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers, and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat,…
The Neglected U.S. Victims of Agent Orange
The Department of Veterans Affairs has long given Vietnam veterans disability compensation for illness connected to Agent Orange, widely used to defoliate Southeast Asian battlefields during the U.S. war.
Less well known: …
Sign Here? Financial Agreements May Leave Doctors in the Driver’s Seat
Cass Smith-Collins jumped through hoops to get the surgery that would match his chest to his gender.
Living in Las Vegas and then 50, he finally felt safe enough to come out as a transgender man. He had his wife’s support…
Toxic Gas Adds to a Long History of Pollution in Southwest Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town.
Like other…
Una prueba genética podría salvar la vida de cientos de pacientes en quimioterapia
Una mañana de enero de 2021, Carol Rosen recibió un tratamiento estándar para el cáncer de mama metastásico. Murió después de tres semanas de sufrimiento, con un dolor insoportable causado por la misma droga que debería haber…
En Colorado, reevalúan leyes formuladas para proteger a los menores
Hace más de 60 años, legisladores en Colorado adoptaron la idea de que la intervención temprana podría prevenir el abuso infantil y salvar vidas. El requisito del estado de que ciertos profesionales informaran a las autoridades…
Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation
As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be contaminated with…
What Florida’s New 6-Week Abortion Ban Means for the South, and Traveling Patients
Monica Kelly was thrilled to learn she was expecting her second child.
The Tennessee mother was around 13 weeks pregnant when, according to a lawsuit filed against the state of Tennessee, doctors gave her the devastating…
Journalists Drill Down on Bird Flu Risks, Opioid Settlement Payouts, and Fluoride in Drinking Water
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed the latest bird flu developments on CBS’ “CBS Mornings” on April 25.
Click here to watch Gounder on “CBS…
Millions Were Booted From Medicaid. The Insurers That Run It Gained Medicaid Revenue Anyway.
Private Medicaid health plans lost millions of members in the past year as pandemic protections that prohibited states from dropping anyone from the government program expired.
But despite Medicaid’s unwinding, as it’s…