Long Wait for Justice: People in Jail Face Delays for Mental Health Care Before They Can Stand Trial
By Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine
June 10, 2022
KFF Health News Original
People in jail who have serious mental illness and cannot stand trial because of their condition are waiting months, or even more than a year, to get into their state psychiatric hospitals.
Big Pharma Went All In to Kill Drug Pricing Negotiations
By Arthur Allen
August 12, 2022
KFF Health News Original
For more than a century, the drug industry has issued dire warnings of plunging innovation whenever regulation reared its head. In general, the threat hasn’t materialized.
Despite Doctors’ Concerns, Pharmacists Get More Leeway to Offer Treatment With Testing
By Michelle Andrews
March 31, 2022
KFF Health News Original
In the battle against covid, pharmacies became a key place for consumers to seek vaccines and testing. Some states are expanding pharmacists’ work to include directly prescribing drugs for customers who seek some routine, point-of-care tests, such as those for flu or strep throat. But doctor groups oppose the move.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Kids Are Not OK
February 16, 2023
Podcast
A new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that teenagers, particularly girls, are reporting all-time high rates of violence and profound mental distress. Meanwhile, both sides in the abortion debate are anxiously waiting for a district court decision in Texas that could effectively revoke the FDA’s 22-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss these issues and more.
His-and-Hers Cataract Surgeries, But His Bill Was 20 Times as Much
By Angela Hart
Photos by Heidi de Marco
June 27, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Whether a simple operation is performed under the auspices of a hospital or at an independent surgery center can make a huge difference in cost.
Como se esperaba, conservadores de la Corte Suprema terminan con el derecho al aborto
By Julie Rovner
June 24, 2022
KFF Health News Original
El presidente Joe Biden dijo que estaba en total desacuerdo con el fallo. “Es un día triste para la corte y para el país”, dijo. “La salud y la vida de las mujeres en esta nación ahora están en riesgo”.
Anti-Vaccine Ideology Gains Ground as Lawmakers Seek to Erode Rules for Kids’ Shots
By Sandy West
April 21, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Legislators in Kansas are pushing bills to expand exemptions for school vaccines, allowing religious exemptions for all vaccine requirements in the state’s schools without families having to provide any proof of their beliefs. Similar bills are being introduced around the nation as the anti-vaccine movement gains traction among politicians.
Part I: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’
By Terry Byrne
January 26, 2023
Podcast
In Part I of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be the flashpoints for 2023. Also in this episode, Rovner interviews Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, about changing reproductive policies in the states.
Behind The Byline: Finding a ‘Superstar’ to Interview
By Jenny Gold
June 1, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.
Did a Military Lab Spill Anthrax Into Public Waterways? New Book Reveals Details of a US Leak
By Alison Young
April 25, 2023
KFF Health News Original
“Pandora’s Gamble” describes how 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of wastewater potentially containing anthrax, Ebola, and other deadly pathogens spilled from an Army facility in Frederick, Maryland, in 2018.
Do You Have Health Care and Health Policy Questions? We Want to Hear From You!
March 8, 2021
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Whether it’s health coverage, surprise medical bills, or navigating the ins and outs of the coronavirus, it’s no secret that the American health system can be confusing. KFF Health News wants to hear the health care and health policy questions you would like answered by health reporters from our newsroom.
In His Continued Sparring With Fauci, Sen. Rand Paul Oversimplified the Science
By Julie Appleby
March 29, 2021
KFF Health News Original
The Kentucky lawmaker was right that a recent study offered evidence that vaccination and previous infection appear to neutralize covid-19. But experts say that doesn’t mean people should be complacent.
Despite All the Talk, Covid Vaccination Does Not Infect People With Shingles
By Julie Appleby
April 30, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Covid-19 vaccinations do not infect recipients with shingles or any form of herpes virus, despite some misleading headlines.
You Don’t Have to Suffer to Benefit From Covid Vaccination — But Some Prefer It
By Arthur Allen
April 28, 2021
KFF Health News Original
In the times of smallpox, vaccination was accompanied by blood, sweat, fire and brimstone. Nowadays, a slight fever may make you feel as if you’ve earned the reward of immunity from covid. But you’re protected even without a nasty reaction to the vaccine.
As a Nurse Faces Prison for a Deadly Error, Her Colleagues Worry: Could I Be Next?
By Brett Kelman
March 22, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial for reckless homicide, and her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.
Fast-Tracked Ruling on Abortion Won’t Wait for ‘Hearts and Minds’ to Change
By Julie Rovner
January 21, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Public opinion remains bitterly divided on the issue as a Supreme Court decision is imminent that could overturn or dramatically undercut Roe v. Wade.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Boosting Confusion
November 18, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Federal health officials appear poised to extend a recommendation for covid boosters to all adults, following moves by some governors and mayors to broaden the eligible booster pool as caseloads rise. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration finally has a nominee to head the agency: former FDA chief Robert Califf. And Medicare premiums for consumers will likely rise substantially in 2022, partly due to the approval of a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Tami Luhby of CNN, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Dan Weissmann, host of the “An Arm and a Leg” podcast.
Morning Briefing for Friday, October 27, 2023
October 27, 2023
Morning Briefing
Vaccine, HIV relief funds, “yellow flag” gun laws, health worker burnout, 340B discounts, covid, miscarriages, and more are in the news.
Covid no discrimina por edad: dramático aumento de casos en adultos jóvenes
By Will Stone
May 4, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Es tanto una señal del éxito del país en la protección de los adultos mayores con la vacunación como un recordatorio urgente de que las generaciones más jóvenes pagarán un alto precio si se permite que siga habiendo brotes en todo el país.
Tres cosas sobre el debate del aborto que se entienden mal
By Julie Rovner
July 22, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Uno de los mitos: que la decisión de la Corte Suprema afecta solo a las mujeres que quieren realizarse el procedimiento, cuando en realidad afecta a toda la salud reproductiva.