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California Clinic Screens Asylum Seekers For Honesty
As new federal policies make it harder to gain asylum in the U.S., foreign applicants try to improve their chances by having doctors evaluate their conditions — perhaps bolstering their stories of torture and violent persecution back home.
In Florida, Midterm Elections Hold Faint Hope For Medicaid Expansion
Republicans’ overwhelming majorities in the state legislature make pursuing a policy that could benefit 660,000 uninsured adults a “long shot,” political analysts say.
'Like A Ghost Town': Erratic Nursing Home Staffing Revealed Through New Records
Daily nursing home payroll records just released by the federal government show the number of nurses and aides dips far below average on some days and consistently plummets on weekends.
Facebook Live: The Marketing Plan That Fueled An Addiction Epidemic
KHN senior correspondent Fred Schulte talks about a cache of files detailing Purdue Pharma’s early OxyContin marketing plan.
Retooled Vaccine Raises Hopes As A Lower-Cost Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes
The vaccine, BCG, is relatively cheap. But experts caution the therapy could be overhyped and, if proven effective, wind up overpriced.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Outrageous Or Overblown? HHS Cuts ACA Navigator Funding Again
Insurers Fall Short In Catching And Reporting Medicaid Fraud, Inspectors Find
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ ACA Under Fire. Again.
A Hospital’s Human Touch: Why Taking Care In Discharging A Patient Matters
Listen: A Sudden Freeze On ACA Payouts And What It Means For You
Democrats Rally Against ACA Threats To Block Supreme Court Nominee
Support Circle: Family Caregivers Share Stories And Tips To Ease Alzheimer's Toll
If High Court Reverses Roe V. Wade, 22 States Poised To Ban Abortion
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First Responders To Horrific Disasters Often Suffer In Solitude
Some firefighters, emergency medical providers and law enforcement officers say recent mass shootings and other calamities — disturbing enough in themselves — have brought to the surface trauma buried over years on the job. Many are reluctant to seek help, though some employers are trying to change that.
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