Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. The high cost of prescription drugs is a top health issue for the public and politicians, but concerns raised by a group of moderate Democrats threaten to derail a bill being ... [Continue Reading]
Another Pandemic ‘To Do’ on the List for Schools: Contact Tracing
Chris Hodges, the principal of Gaylord High School in Otsego County, Michigan, never thought he’d be a contact tracer. ... [Continue Reading]
Don’t Eat the Yellowstone Snow: Elite Ski Resort Aims to Turn Sewage Into Powder
An exclusive Montana resort wants to turn sewage into snow so that its rich and famous members can ski its slopes in a winter season that’s shrinking because of climate change. ... [Continue Reading]
Biden Boasts About Equitable Senior Vaccination Rate by Race Without Data to Back It Up
“There’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American,” referring to vaccination rates among Americans 65 and up. President Joe Biden, May 3 During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, ... [Continue Reading]
Masks at the Campfire: Summer Camps for Kids With Medical Needs Adapt to Covid
Olivia Klassen’s face lights up when she talks about summer camp. She loves to do the scavenger hunt with her camp friends. She also loves paddleboarding, swimming in the lake and “kitchen raids.” But what she loves most is being ... [Continue Reading]
The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One Family to Rethink American Justice
The beer bottle that cracked over Christian Pean’s head unleashed rivulets of blood that ran down his face and seeped into the soil in which Harold and Paloma Pean were growing their three boys. At the time, Christian was a confident high ... [Continue Reading]
How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After the Pandemic’s Uncertainty
Kai Humphrey, 9, has been learning from home for more than a year. He badly misses his Washington, D.C., elementary school, along with his friends and the bustle of the classroom. ... [Continue Reading]
From Covid Coverage to ‘Public Option’ Plans, Journalists Delve Into Details
KHN senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed changes in insurance coverage for covid-19 care on Newsy on Thursday. Click here to watch Appleby on NewsyRead Appleby’s “Time to Say Goodbye to Some Insurers’ Waivers for Covid ... [Continue Reading]
‘I Just Feel Like Myself’: A Nonbinary Child in Their Own Words
It’s 7:30 a.m. on a school day. Two parents are racing to get their three young children dressed, fed, packed for the day, into coats and out the door when 6-year-old Hallel runs downstairs, crying. ... [Continue Reading]
Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech Undermines California’s Public Health System.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America — routinely outsourcing life-or-death public health ... [Continue Reading]
As Schools Spend Millions on Air Purifiers, Experts Warn of Overblown Claims and Harm to Children
Last summer, Global Plasma Solutions wanted to test whether the company’s air-purifying devices could kill covid-19 virus particles but could find only a lab using a chamber the size of a shoebox for its trials. In the company-funded study, the ... [Continue Reading]
The Vulnerable Homebound Are Left Behind on Vaccination
It was April, more than three months into the vaccination campaign against covid-19, and Jim Freeman, 83, still had not gotten his first dose. Use Our Content ... [Continue Reading]
Covid Forces Cohousing Communities to Examine Shared Values and Relationships
Tensions were running high at PDX Commons, a cohousing community for adults 55 and older in Portland, Oregon. Several people wanted to keep visitors off-site until all 35 residents were vaccinated. Others wanted to open to family and friends for the ... [Continue Reading]
In Poisoned Montana Town, Warren Buffett-Owned Railroad Accuses Clinic of Medicare Fraud
Patricia Denny and her husband, Jeff, had hoped to one day get an RV and travel the country. Instead, Jeff has been forced into retirement at age 54 by a lung disease caused by the asbestos that’s polluted the small town of Libby, Montana, for ... [Continue Reading]
Some County Jail Inmates See Vaccination as Ticket to a Better Life — In the State Pen
LOS ANGELES — The inmates huddled near the front or lingered on the bunk beds lining both sides of their narrow, crowded dorm at the Men’s Central Jail, listening as Lt. Sheriff Dwight Miley and nurse practitioner Marissa Negrete offered them ... [Continue Reading]
Tras accidente de auto, paciente se estrella contra factura de $700,000 por cirugía de columna
La vida de Mark Gottlieb cambió en un instante cuando otro conductor chocó contra su auto. Se dañó cuatro vértebras de la parte superior de la columna vertebral y se destrozó seis dientes. ... [Continue Reading]
Another Soda Tax Bill Dies. Another Win for Big Soda.
SACRAMENTO — A rogue industry. A gun to our head. Extortion. This story also ran on San ... [Continue Reading]
After a Deadly Year on the Roads, States Push for Safety Over Speed
As more Americans start commuting to work and hitting the roads after a year indoors, they’ll be returning to streets that have gotten deadlier. ... [Continue Reading]