Lifestyle
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46Public Health Dangers of City Wildfire Smoke Immediate Push for Extra Monitoring
When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents had been respiration poisonous air from the burning...
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50Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Sufficient.
Underscoring the large scale of America’s medical debt drawback, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to repay outdated medical payments...
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50Firings at Federal Health Businesses Decimate Workplaces That Launch Public Records
Public entry to authorities data that doc the dealing with of diseases, defective merchandise, and security lapses at well being services will...
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52The House Speaker’s Eyeing Large Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline.
MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans final 12 months to renovate a rural hospital...
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77Immigration Crackdowns Disrupt the Caregiving Industry. Households Pay the Value.
Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues earlier than she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a uncommon and debilitating genetic situation, fidgets her...
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48Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Laborious-Gained Lodging for Disabled People
For years, White House press conferences included signal language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump...
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46American Health Will get a Pink Slip
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health...
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46What’s Misplaced: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation’s Health Care Safer
A view of 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland, which homes the headquarters of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and...
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43‘If They Cut Too Much, People Will Die’: Health Coalition Pushes GOP on Medicaid Funding
Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the final time main Medicaid cuts slashed her price range. In the late 2000s, through the Great Recession, the...
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55Hit Exhausting by Opioid Disaster, Black Sufferers Additional Harm by Obstacles to Care
Melba Newsome CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the practically 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered...