DC’s Harllee Harper Is Using Public Health Tools to Prevent Gun Violence. Will It Work?
After four people were murdered in one week in early September — all in the same Washington, D.C., neighborhood —...
Year: 2021
Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Like most other kids with covid, Dante and Michael DeMaino seemed to have no serious...
California’s Mental Health Crisis: What Went Wrong? And Can We Fix It?
Gov. Gavin Newsom is steering a major transformation of California’s behavioral health care system, with much at stake in the...
Hygienists Brace for Pitched Battles With Dentists in Fights Over Practice Laws
This year, the Illinois legislature was considering measures to expand oral health treatment in a state where millions of people...
Watch: Going Beyond the Script of ‘Dopesick’ and America’s Real-Life Opioid Crisis
KHN and policy colleagues at our parent organization KFF teamed up with Hulu for a discussion of America’s opioid crisis,...
What Will It Take to Boost Vaccinations? The Scene From Kentucky’s Back Roads
Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News SMILAX, Ky. — In the end it was the delta variant that drove Rose Mitchell,...
Schedule Online Visits First? It’s the Next Big Thing in Health Insurance
At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, people often relied on telemedicine for doctor visits. Now, insurers are betting that...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Politics of Vaccine Mandates
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen...
Covid Testing, Turnaround Times Are Still Uneven This Far Into Pandemic
In one recent week, a New Yorker got a free covid-19 test in a jiffy, with results the next day,...
Reluctant Localities Are Being Dragged Into Court to Fix Sidewalks for People With Disabilities
From her Baltimore dining room, Susan Goodlaxson can see her neighbor gardening across the street. But while other neighbors stop...
6 Months to Live or Die: How Long Should an Alcoholic Liver Disease Patient Wait for a Transplant?
The night before Brian Gorzney planned to check into rehab for alcohol use, he began vomiting blood. First at 2...
New Law Bans Harassment at Vaccination Sites, but Free Speech Concerns Persist
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s now illegal in California to harass people on their way into a vaccination clinic, under a...
