Incidental Cases and Staff Shortages Make Covid’s Next Act Tough for Hospitals
The Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida, on Jan. 11 was treating 80 covid-19 patients — a tenfold increase since late...
Month: January 2022
Long-Excluded Uterine Cancer Patients Are Step Closer to 9/11 Benefits
Tammy Kaminski can still recall the taste of benzene, a carcinogenic byproduct of burning jet fuel. For nine months after...
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough? The 2022 Edition
The highly transmissible omicron variant is sweeping the U.S., causing a huge spike in covid-19 cases and overwhelming many hospital...
Fire Closes Hospital and Displaces Staff as Colorado Battles Omicron
The Colorado wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes last month has forced the temporary closure of a hospital and...
Supreme Court Weighs Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Requirements
The Supreme Court on Friday took up one of the most contentious issues of the covid-19 pandemic, hearing a series...
California Ballot Will Be Heavy on Health Care
SACRAMENTO — When Californians go to the polls later this year, they will confront contentious health care choices. Voters will...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Contagion Confusion
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With Sexually Transmitted Infections Off the Charts, California Pushes At-Home Tests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually...
Why an HBCU Med School Decided to Put CARES Act Money Into Students’ Pockets
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Just before students at Meharry Medical College went home for Thanksgiving, Dr. James Hildreth, the school’s president,...
