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Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire
For the past decade, Precious McCowan’s life has revolved around organ transplants. She’s a doctoral candidate studying human behavior in Dallas who has survived two kidney transplants. And in the midst of her end-stage renal…
Watch: The Mysterious Death of a Congressman’s Wife
KHN senior correspondent Samantha Young appeared on CBS News to discuss her exclusive coverage of the death of Lori McClintock, the wife of Northern California congressman Tom McClintock.
When Lori McClintock died in December 2021,…
Meet Mary Wakefield, the Nurse Administrator Tasked With Revamping the CDC
Sam Whitehead
It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of criticism for repeatedly mishandling its response to the covid-19 pandemic and more recently monkeypox, the agency…
‘He Stood His Ground’: California State Senator Will Leave Office as Champion of Tough Vaccine Laws
Angela Hart
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker who rose to national prominence by muscling through some of the country’s strongest vaccination laws is leaving the state legislature later this year after a momentous tenure that…
In the Rush to Curtail Abortion, States Adopt a Jumbled Stew of Definitions for Human Life
As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How should we define when life ends?…
Journalists Discuss the Nation’s Suicide Prevention Hotline, Abortion, and ‘Forever Chemicals’
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute our journalism for free and without advertising through media partners of…
Hospitals Cut Jobs and Services as Rising Costs Strain Budgets
Katheryn Houghton
Bozeman Health had a problem, one that officials at the health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana said had been building for months.
It had made it through the covid-19 pandemic’s…
Unraveling the Interplay of Omicron, Reinfections, and Long Covid
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News
The latest covid-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to fall.
Like past covid waves, this…
With More Sizzling Summers, Colorado Changes How Heat Advisories Are Issued
For all the images of ski resorts and snow-capped peaks, Colorado is experiencing shorter winters and hotter summers that are increasingly putting people at risk for heat-related illnesses. Yet until this year, the National…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Future of Public Health, 2022 Edition
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It’s been nearly a year since KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast…