Mental Health Crisis Teams Aren’t Just for Cities Anymore
In many cities, social workers and counselors are responding to mental health emergencies that used to be solely handled by police. That approach is spreading to rural areas even though mental health professionals are scarcer and travel distances are longer.
Severe Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds a Simple, No-Cost Solution
An industry has grown up around sleep apnea, stirring concerns about overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
Listen: Grieving Families Face the Cruelest Bills
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber talks with NPR's "Consider This" podcast about her reporting on families confronted with medical bills while grieving the loss of a baby who received expensive hospital care.
Journalists Dig In on the Fiscal Health of the Nation and Hospital Closures in Rural Missouri
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
Since pharmaceutical companies started funding their FDA drug applications 30 years ago, the agency’s reviews have gone much faster — perhaps too fast.
Sports Programs in States in Northern Climes Face a New Opponent: Scorching Septembers
Watch: Their Baby Died. The Medical Bills Haunted Them.
Turned Away From Urgent Care — And Toward a Big ER Bill
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: On Government Spending, Congress Decides Not to Decide
Centene Agrees to Pay Massachusetts $14 Million Over Medicaid Prescription Claims
Environmental Justice Leader Says Proposition 30 Would Help Struggling Areas Clear the Air
Readers and Tweeters Take a Close Look at Eye Care and White Mulberry Leaf
'American Diagnosis': When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care Funding Doesn't Follow
Few Places Have More Medical Debt Than Dallas-Fort Worth, but Hospitals There Are Thriving
