Journalists Track Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis and Put Catholic...
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed her experiences reporting on addiction and offers advice to journalists starting on this beat for the American Society of Addiction...
View ArticleA Paramedic Was Skeptical About This Rx for Stopping Repeat Opioid Overdoses....
OCALA, Fla. — Fire Capt. Jesse Blaire steered his SUV through the mobile home park until he spotted the little beige house with white trim and radioed to let dispatchers know he’d arrived. There,...
View ArticleAt Stake in Mifepristone Case: Abortion, FDA’s Authority, and Return to 1873...
Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to...
View ArticleThis State Isn’t Waiting for Biden To Negotiate Drug Prices
As the federal government negotiates with drugmakers to lower the price of 10 expensive drugs for Medicare patients, impatient legislators in some states are trying to go even further. Leading the...
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KFF Health News''What the Health?': The Supreme Court and the Abortion Pill
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A...
View ArticleBiden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare...
Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries “was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month.” President Joe Biden, in a March 22 speech The cost of insulin in the United States has risen...
View ArticleTen Doctors on FDA Panel Reviewing Abbott Heart Device Had Financial Ties...
When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted...
View ArticleReaders Speak Up About Women’s Health Issues, From Reproductive Care to Drinking
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Many readers responded to our data-driven...
View ArticleTo Stop Fentanyl Deaths in Philadelphia, Knocking on Doors and Handing Out...
On a narrow street lined with row houses and an auto body shop in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Marsella Elie climbs a home’s front steps and knocks hard on the door. A...
View ArticleThe Path to a Better Tuberculosis Vaccine Runs Through Montana
A team of Montana researchers is playing a key role in the development of a more effective vaccine against tuberculosis, an infectious disease that has killed more people than any other. The BCG...
View ArticlePara frenar las muertes por fentanilo, reparten kits para revertir las...
En una estrecha calle de townhouses y un taller mecánico en el vecindario Kensington, en el norte de Philadelphia, Marsella Elie subió los escalones y golpeó fuerte las puertas de las casas. Un hombre...
View ArticleEn Montana, investigan una nueva y poderosa vacuna contra la tuberculosis
Un equipo de investigadores de Montana está jugando un papel clave en el desarrollo de una vacuna más efectiva contra la tuberculosis, una enfermedad infecciosa que ha matado a más personas que...
View ArticleJournalists Drill Down on Bird Flu Risks, Opioid Settlement Payouts, and...
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed the latest bird flu developments on CBS’ “CBS Mornings” on April 25. Click here to watch Gounder on “CBS...
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KFF Health News''What the Health?': Abortion Access Changing Again in Florida...
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A...
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Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge
When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary....
View ArticleWhat’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?
When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said,...
View ArticleJournalists Take Stock of Opioid Settlement Payouts and Concierge Care Trend
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani explained details of the opioid settlements and how much has so far been paid to state and local governments on KMOX’s “Total Information AM” on...
View ArticleClean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal.
Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement,...
View ArticleJournalists Broach Topics From Treating Shooting Victims to Sunscreen Safety
KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Bram Sable-Smith and KCUR investigative reporter Peggy Lowe discussed removing bullets from bodies on KCUR’s “Up To Date” on May 14. Click here to hear...
View ArticleHigh Price of Popular Diabetes Drugs Deprives Low-Income People of Effective...
For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to control their blood...
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