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KHN On C-SPAN: Current Capitol Hill Thinking On Combating The Opioid Crisis
KHN鈥檚 Shefali Luthra offers insight into what federal and state officials are eyeing to help reduce addiction problems.
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Follow-Up Exam: Test Your Wits On Aging
As Americans get older, it helps to tickle the ol’ noggin with trivia.聽Here’s a pop quiz to see what you have learned as a regular reader of KHN鈥檚 coverage of aging issues.
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How A Drugmaker Turned The Abortion Pill Into A Rare-Disease Profit Machine
An abortion drug invented decades ago is being used to treat Cushing鈥檚 syndrome 鈥 and it鈥檚 bringing in tens of millions of dollars a year.
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Can You Hear Me Now? Senate Bill Aims to Broaden Access To Hearing Services.
The measure would allow Medicare beneficiaries to visit an audiologist to get a hearing test to diagnose a hearing problem without first being referred by a physician or nurse practitioner.
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C-SPAN: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Talks To KHN
Kaiser Health News reporter Sarah Jane Tribble sat down with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on C-SPAN鈥檚 “Newsmakers” program. The conversation ranged from how the nation should combat the opioid epidemic to reining in drug prices.
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Former California State Contractor Sued Over Breach Of HIV Patient Privacy
A lawsuit claims that a private company hired by the state public health department to manage enrollment in an AIDS drug assistance program for low-income patients inadvertently allowed unauthorized access to their medical status.
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A Tale Of Two CT Scanners 鈥 One Richer, One Poorer
Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in an hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?
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Postcard From L.A.
Dialysis Patients Sign Up For November Ballot Fight
Frustrated by dialysis centers they call dirty and understaffed, patients and health care workers rallied across California Thursday before delivering more than 600,000 signatures to election offices in support of a ballot initiative intended to improve patient care.
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Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback?
Kaiser Health News launches 鈥淧re$cription for Power,鈥 a groundbreaking database to expose Big Pharma鈥檚 ties to patient groups.
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To Treat Pain, PTSD And Other Ills, Tennessee Vets Try Tai Chi
In hopes of reducing an over-reliance on pills for anxiety and pain, the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken a turn toward alternative medicine.
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Timeline: Despite GOP鈥檚 Failure To Repeal Obamacare, The ACA Has Changed
A look at the most consequential events that have reshaped the federal health law since President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
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Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 Alive And Limping: ACA In The Age Of Trump
In this special episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo take a deep dive into the state of the federal health law, what happened in 2017 and the Affordable Care Act’s viability going forward.
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Atlanta Struggles To Meet MLK鈥檚 Legacy On Health Care
Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major disparities in mortality and other measures of health.
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Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work
Sixty-eight percent of those 65 and older take vitamin supplements. Much of what we once believed about the benefits is wrong.
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Medicare Advantage Plans Cleared To Go Beyond Medical Coverage 鈥 Even Groceries
Under new federal rules unveiled this week, these privately run alternatives to traditional Medicare might provide air conditioners, rides to medical appointments and home-delivered meals.
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鈥楴ightmare Bacteria’ Stalk U.S. Hospitals
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found antibiotic-resistant bacteria whose spread has 鈥渙utpaced鈥 efforts to contain them.
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Psychiatrist Stays Close To Home And True To Her Childhood Promise
Yamanda Edwards is the only psychiatrist at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, caring for residents in South Los Angeles, a community with a shortage of mental health care.
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Don’t Get Tripped Up By The IRS Tweak To Health Savings Accounts
A new federal calculation reduces by $50 the amount a family can put aside in 2018 in these accounts to pay medical bills. Anyone who has already funded the account at a higher level will need to adjust or deal with the tax consequences next year.
