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| Oct 7, 2025 | Health centers face risks as government funding lapses | Paula Andalo, KFF Health News
About 1,500 federally funded health centers that serve millions of low-income people face significant financial challenges, their leaders say, as the government shutdown compounds other cuts to their revenue. R... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Projected surge in uninsured will strain local health systems | By Sam Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — Jake Margo Jr. stood in the triage room at Starr County Memorial Hospital explaining why a person with persistent fever who could be treated with over-the-counter... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | The Asthma Dilemma: A Dangerous Misstep in Public Health Policy | In the realm of public health, few issues are as pressing as childhood asthma. It’s a silent storm, wreaking havoc on young lives. Yet, a recent report from the MAHA commission threatens to exacerbate this crisis. The implications are profo... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | The Asthma Dilemma: A Cloud Over Lifesaving Treatments | Asthma is a silent storm. It lurks in the lungs of millions, especially children. The recent MAHA report casts a shadow over the treatment landscape. Experts are sounding alarms. They fear that the report's conclusions could misguide policy... |
| Jun 24, 2025 | ‘Problematic’ MAHA report minimizes success of lifesaving asthma medicines, doctors say | Experts worry that the administration will set policy based on the assessment that would dissuade insurers from covering asthma prescriptions. They also say that the report’s assertions could worsen disparities that affect children’s access... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | The Unseen Battles: Understanding Common Conflicts in Relationships | Relationships are like intricate tapestries, woven with threads of love, trust, and shared experiences. Yet, even the most vibrant tapestries can fray at the edges. Conflicts arise, often from the same familiar patterns. Understanding these... |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Opinion: Y. Tony Yang and Avi Dor: Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks | In other words, because of a fundamental tension between individual choice and collective welfare, relying solely on individual choice may not achieve public health goals.
This makes vaccine decisions fundamentally different from most other... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | Contaminated drinking water is a growing concern for cities facing wildfires | FILE – A structure on Lake Avenue is engulfed in flames, Jan. 8, 2025, in the Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)Why urban fires are a risk to drinking water
When large fires burn in towns and cities, rather... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: David Michaels: Your state better be ready to protect workers under Trump | Changes in state and local policies can even drive improvements in federal policies. Businesses generally want uniform national marketing and labeling policies. Faced with a range of different right-to-know requirements around the country, ... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | National Politics | In fight over Medicare payments, the hospital lobby shows its strength | Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, Colleen DeGuzman | KFF Health News (TNS)
In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines.
The point of contention: For decades, Medicare... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Health | FDA’s plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late | Ronnie Cohen | (TNS) KFF Health News
In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical ... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | FDA's plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late | In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products.
The m... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Health | Where are the nation’s primary care providers? It’s not an easy answer | By Rae Ellen Bichell, KFF Health News
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado.
“If someone’s in labor, they’ll show up. If someone has ... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Harold Phillips Presents at Congressional Briefing on Importance of HIV Research | Topics NIHNational Institutes of HealthONAPWhite House Office of National AIDS PolicyResearch AgendaResearch AgendaVaccinesVaccines
On May 9th, I was pleased to serve as a panelist during a congressional briefing titled Then, Now, Imagine: ... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Speakers and Sessions Announced, Registration Open for "TSCA Reform -- Seven Years Later" Virtual Conference, 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT June 29, 2023 | This timely and essential day-long virtual conference will provide updates on risk evaluation, risk management, new chemical review, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and more.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) June 14, 2023
The full program, in... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Eight things you didn’t know about the penis | There are a number of facts regarding the penis that many don’t know about, here are just 8 that you may not have heard of. Photo: Stock Image / Pixabay
While many think penis knowledge is common, there are a number of things that aren’t le... |
| Oct 3, 2021 | Leana Wen’s “Lifelines” Combines “ER,” PBS and “Oprah” In a Compelling Read | Dr. Leana Wen, whose new book details the life journey that made her into a prominent public health ... [+] advocate, speaks at the 2019 funeral of her mentor Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Oct 6, 2020 | As We Fight The Coronavirus Pandemic, We Cannot Ignore Non-Communicable Diseases | An electronic blood pressure machine takes a patient's readings during a free door-to-door screening ... [+] program conducted by Public Health Foundation of India. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg© 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Milken Institute Launches COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker | While the world eagerly waits for any sign of a cure to COVID-19, the Santa Monica-based Milken Institute has launched a publicly accessible spreadsheet to help the public and policymakers track progress of possible treatments and vaccines.... |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Encouraging Teamwork, Not Winning, Helps Kids Get Into Sports | New research from George Washington University has uncovered what kids love most about playing sports—and, contrary to what your coach might have told you when you were growing up, it’s not winning. Kids’ love of the game comes down to tryi... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Massive Online Courses Find a New Audience With Continuing Medical Education | Applications are surging for New York University’s School of Medicine after the university announced last year that its medical program would be tuition-free for all students.
But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical train... |
| Sep 7, 2018 | The Hidden Link Between Farm Antibiotics and Human Illness | FOR ALMOST SEVEN decades, we’ve routinely fed antibiotics to the animals we eat. That’s just a few years less than we’ve taken antibiotics ourselves. And for just about as long, it’s been clear that those antibiotic doses have been creating... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Merck takes part in test of medicine-delivery drones in Puerto Rico | According to a widely publicized study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month, between Sept. 20 and Dec. 31, 2017, Hurricane Maria caused approximately 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico, based on the estimated mortality rate ... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | 60-second interview: Are kids' diets getting better? | To put the latter point in perspective, 14.5% of children aged 2-4 years in the WIC program (which provides low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five with nutritious, supplemental foods) ... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | Here’s who won the 2017 GW New Venture Competition | Twelve new ventures took the stage at George Washington University’s New Venture Competition last week to vie for audience appreciation and a total of $140,000 in cash prizes. In the end it was Urgent Wellness that took first place (worth $... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | With the Healthy Indiana Plan up for renewal, is the Medicaid expansion experiment working? | Indiana expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in 2015, adding conditions designed to appeal to the state’s conservative leadership. The federal government approved the experiment, called the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP 2.0, which... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | 5 reasons to attend #PTW16’s Digital Health Evolution Conference | While the healthcare industry is notoriously cautious of adopting new technologies, more and more hospitals and insurance companies are utilizing new digital health tools to improve the quality and delivery of care.
For the second time in P... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Antibiotic use on the farm rises, threatening drug supply for human health | Sales of antibiotics for use in cows, pigs, chickens, and other food animals hit a whopping 33.8 million pounds in 2014 — a 4 percent increase over the previous year — a report released Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration revealed.... |
| With the Healthy Indiana Plan up for renewal, is the Medicaid expansion experiment working? | Indiana expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in 2015, adding conditions designed to appeal to the state’s conservative leadership. The federal government approved the experiment, called the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP 2.0, which... |
| Colorado commits $65 million to electric school buses | Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed into law SB 193, an air-quality bill which among other things creates a $65 million grant program for electric school buses in the state.
A number of states and cities have committed to buying electr... |
| Getting COVID in Pregnancy Greatly Raises a Woman's Odds for Death | TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 infection in pregnancy raises a woman's risk of death sevenfold and significantly elevates her odds for needing intensive care, a new study finds.
Getting the virus during pregnancy also u... |
| Merck takes part in test of medicine-delivery drones in Puerto Rico | One of the medicine-delivery drones being tested
As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico becomes clearer, one of the largest drugmakers in the country is participating in a test of a drone system designed to deliver med... |
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| Rural hospitals gird for unwinding of pandemic Medicaid coverage | Donald Lloyd, CEO and president of St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead, Kentucky, has spent more than a year dealing with higher costs for food and medical supplies for his regional hospital. Now he’s trying to prepare for another financial h... |
