KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: American Health Gets a Pink Slip
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What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation’s Health Care Safer
Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after...
Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People
For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent...
‘If They Cut Too Much, People Will Die’: Health Coalition Pushes GOP on Medicaid Funding
Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession,...
Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered...
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March 27 Zach Dyer delivers this week’s news: Federal regulators want to collect more data to figure out why some...
Ghibli-Style AI Art: A Creative Fantasy or a Privacy Nightmare?
The rise of Ghibli-style AI art has taken social media by storm, with fans thrilled to see their favorite characters...
Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.
Five years ago, the CEO of one of the largest pain clinic companies in the Southeast was sentenced to more...
Montana May Start Collecting Immunization Data Again Amid US Measles Outbreak
When epidemiologist Sophia Newcomer tries to evaluate how well Montana might be able to ward off the measles outbreak spreading...
Unveiling the Secrets of Akshayapatra: A Magical Solar Cooker?
In the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, there's a fascinating story about Akshayapatra, a mystical copper plate that produced an...