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Doctors at the University of California鈥檚 flagship San Francisco hospital are sharply divided over a proposal to join forces with a Catholic-run system that restricts care on the basis of religious doctrine 鈥 part of a broader public debate as Catholic hospitals expand their reach.
An estimated 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes and cannot live without insulin. Sen. Kamala Harris鈥 claim that 1 in 4 diabetes patients cannot afford their insulin is a shockingly high number, so we decided to dig into the sparse data.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.
A survey of more than 96,000 students finds that 7.2% reported 鈥渃linically significant鈥 symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that his state is 鈥渓eading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.鈥 Is that really the case?
Under the rule that took effect this year, Medicare will lower payments for clinic visits performed at hospital-owned facilities to a rate that is equivalent to what it pays an independent doctor. Federal officials expect the move will save the government $380 million this year.
It鈥檚 as shady as it sounds.
A legal battle in Pennsylvania is testing the boundaries of health care competition and government action to oversee and regulate it.
The pesticide chlorpyrifos has been linked to developmental problems in children. Some state and federal lawmakers want the chemical banned, but federal regulators are fighting to keep it on the market.
Judge cited an attempted 鈥渆nd-run鈥 around the Affordable Care Act in rejecting large chunks of a new rule expanding access to such plans for small businesses and single proprietors.
The Bureau of Sages, a group of frail, older adults, gives feedback to researchers about what matters to older adults.
Whistleblower lawsuits accuse Tennessee chain of bilking millions from Medicare for unnecessary urine drug tests.
Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the latest news about women鈥檚 reproductive health policy and the latest skirmish in the debate over 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥: how hospitals should be paid.
Three-quarters of people urge action to keep patients from facing high medical costs when their insurance doesn鈥檛 cover the care, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
An eye-opening study of demographics and income finds that the costs of assisted-living care will soon be out of reach for people on fixed incomes 鈥 and their children.
After dozens of health care workers were charged with illegally prescribing opioids in Appalachia, local health agencies are trying to make sure chronic pain patients don’t fall through the cracks.
Deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner鈥檚 data. Experts say drug and alcohol abuse are significant factors.
When an undocumented immigrant in a Texas border county gets a cancer diagnosis, it can be a death sentence because of a lack of public hospitals.
Asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, housed in migrant shelters in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, are often sick and exhausted from their long journeys. Volunteer health workers from Southern California recently sent a mobile clinic to one of those shelters and spent a day tending to its inhabitants.
Lauren Weber, one of Kaiser Health News鈥 new Midwest correspondents, joined St. Louis Public Radio reporter Jeremy Goodwin on 鈥淪t. Louis on the Air鈥 Friday to discuss how syphilis is making inroads into rural counties across the Midwest and West.
