KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Chat With the Surgeon General on Health Worker Burnout
July 7, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Health workers are not OK, and that poses a threat to anyone who may need health services. That’s the central finding of the latest report from the office of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, “Addressing Health Worker Burnout.” This special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast is a conversation about the report between Murthy and KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner, which was recorded at the annual research meeting of AcademyHealth in June.
Rural California Hatches Plan for Engineered Mosquitoes to Battle Stealthy Predator
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
May 10, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Tulare County officials hope the region will soon be a testing ground for a new generation of technology in a centuries-old war: Human vs. Mosquito.
It’s Hot Outside — And That’s Bad News for Children’s Health
By Colleen DeGuzman
June 16, 2022
KFF Health News Original
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine takes a sweeping look at how heat — which can be a byproduct of air pollution and climate change — adversely affects people’s health, especially that of kids.
Much of the CDC Is Working Remotely. That Could Make Changing the Agency Difficult.
By Sam Whitehead
December 5, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Like many U.S. workplaces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went remote during the pandemic. Most of the agency’s staff members haven’t returned to the office full time, raising concerns about the CDC’s ability to reform itself after recent stumbles.
La California rural utilizará mosquitos modificados genéticamente para luchar contra sigilosos depredadores
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
May 10, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Una generación de insectos de laboratorio podría ser una herramienta eficaz para eliminar al mosquito que causa enfermedades que pueden resultar mortales.
Public Health Experts Worry About Boom-Bust Cycle of Support
By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht
April 19, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into public health since last year. While health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are grateful for the money, they worry it will soon dry up, just as it has after previous crises such as 9/11, SARS and Ebola. Meanwhile, they continue to cope with an exodus from the field amid political pressure and exhaustion that meant 1 in 6 Americans lost their local health department leader.
Covid’s ‘Silver Lining’: Research Breakthroughs for Chronic Disease, Cancer, and the Common Flu
By Liz Szabo
March 17, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Billions of dollars invested in mRNA vaccines and covid research could yield health care dividends for decades to come.
RFK Jr.’s Campaign of Conspiracy Theories Is PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year
By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders, PolitiFact
December 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Debate and speculation are heating up over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the 2024 election. But one thing is clear: Kennedy’s political following is built on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories.
Pandemic Poses Short- and Long-Term Risks to Babies, Especially Boys
By Liz Szabo
December 21, 2021
KFF Health News Original
A mother’s immune response to covid can be a greater danger to the fetus than the virus itself.
Expertos en salud pública temen que los fondos desaparezcan cuando termine la pandemia
By Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht
April 19, 2021
KFF Health News Original
El Congreso ha enviado miles de millones a los departamentos de salud para luchar contra covid. Pero históricamente, esta financiación se acaba cuando termina la emergencia sanitaria.
Viewpoints: Did Zika Disappear?; Surprise Support For Trans Rights In Ohio
January 3, 2024
Morning Briefing
Editorial writers discuss the Zika virus, transgender health care, hospital billing, and other health issues.
Another Study Finds Zika Virus Could Be Used To Treat Cancer
January 19, 2024
Morning Briefing
Researchers found that the deadly virus can be successfully used to tackle cancerous tissue in mice, and, stunningly, the treatment had very highly efficacy, and required just one injection. Separately, research into Zika infections in people found that reinfection is actually possible.
Doctors Scramble to Understand Long Covid, but Causes and Prognosis Are Elusive
By Michelle Andrews and Lydia Zuraw
April 22, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Medical experts are struggling to define or explain the lingering, debilitating symptoms some covid patients experience. Part of the problem is the wide range of symptoms, but doctors say getting a better understanding will mean tracking patients and their outcomes and establishing clinical trials.
Research Roundup: Schizophrenia; Parkinson’s; Zika; ADHD; More
December 1, 2022
Morning Briefing
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
La pandemia presenta riesgos a corto y largo plazo para bebés, especialmente varones
By Liz Szabo
December 21, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Las embarazadas con covid tienen cinco veces más probabilidades que las que no lo están de necesitar cuidados intensivos. Pero las consecuencias para el bebé pueden ser a largo plazo.
Zika Simmers On Back Burner As World Copes With String Of Viral Menaces
August 16, 2022
Morning Briefing
A frightening outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness in 2015 and 2016 left many children around the world with devastating brain damage. The New York Times reports on how families and researchers are struggling to find a cure as attention dried up in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
In California, Someone Caught Dengue Via Local Infection For The First Time
October 23, 2023
Morning Briefing
In startling news, a rare case of mosquito-borne dengue virus was locally acquired by someone in Pasadena — the first known case in the state for someone who had not recently traveled. Also in the news: In the hunt for Zika virus vaccines, volunteers are safely infected for the first time.
Morning Briefing for Tuesday, August 16, 2022
August 16, 2022
Morning Briefing
Tuesday’s roundup covers the health and climate bill, covid vaccines, mask mandates, abortion, maternal health, monkeypox, Zika, and more.
Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image
By Jay Hancock
May 18, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Vaccines and antivirals have long been an afterthought but Johnson & Johnson and other firms are widely publicizing how they might stop COVID 19.
Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Fly Free as Health Departments Focus on Coronavirus
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Lauren Weber
July 16, 2020
KFF Health News Original
Health departments and other public agencies tasked with protecting the nation from disease-carrying mosquitoes are overstretched amid the coronavirus pandemic — even as the nation is told it’s safest to be outside.