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Much of the CDC Is Working Remotely. That Could Make Changing the Agency Difficult.
Sam Whitehead
ATLANTA — Earlier this year, top leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a monumental task: turning the sprawling, labyrinthine organization known for its highly specialized, academically focused…
Assisted Living Facilities Pressed to Address Growing Needs of Older, Sicker Residents
Judith Graham
Assisted living communities too often fail to meet the needs of older adults and should focus more on residents’ medical and mental health concerns, according to a recent report by a diverse panel of experts.…
Journalists Discuss Medicaid Rules, Opioid Settlement Funds, and the Public Health Workforce
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…
Watch: The Politics of Health Care in California
December 2, 2022
KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart joined the nonpartisan group Democracy Winters on Nov. 19 to discuss the politics of health care in California. She focused on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…
The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans
Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht
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A Missouri man who is deaf and blind said a medical bill he didn’t know existed was sent to debt collections, triggering an 11% rise…
The Business of Clinical Trials Is Booming. Private Equity Has Taken Notice.
Rachana Pradhan
After finding success investing in the more obviously lucrative corners of American medicine — like surgery centers and dermatology practices — private equity firms have moved aggressively into the industry’s more hidden…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Medicaid Machinations
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The lame-duck Congress is back in Washington with a…
Montana’s New Sex Ed Law Ensnares English and History Lessons, Too
A Montana law requiring public schools to notify parents of lessons that mention human sexuality — and allowing parents to pull their children from those lessons — has reached further and been more cumbersome than anticipated,…
Her Apartment Might Have Put Her Son’s Health at Risk. But ‘I Have Nowhere Else to Go.’
Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly
ATLANTA — When Louana Joseph’s son had a seizure because of an upper respiratory infection in July, she abandoned the apartment her family had called home for nearly three years.
She…
Addiction Treatment Proponents Urge Rural Clinicians to Pitch In by Prescribing Medication
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Andrea Storjohann is glad to see that she’s becoming less of a rarity in rural America.
The nurse practitioner prescribes medication to dozens of patients trying to recover from addiction to heroin or…