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Laboratorios de análisis de aguas residuales para covid se suman a la caza de la viruela del simio
Las mismas técnicas de vigilancia de aguas residuales que se han convertido en una herramienta crítica en la detección temprana de brotes de covid-19 se están adaptando para monitorear la alarmante propagación de la viruela del…
El cáncer de piel siempre es un riesgo, pero puede pasar inadvertido en pieles oscuras
Brykyta Shelton estaba en la fila de la caja de una gran tienda, cuando se sintió incómoda porque una mujer que estaba delante se quedó mirando sus pies.
Shelton llevaba meses tomando medicamentos para lo que, según su médico,…
After ‘a Lot of Doors Shut in Our Face,’ Crusading Couple Celebrate Passage of Burn Pit Bill
The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in…
Patients and Doctors Trapped in a Gray Zone When Abortion Laws and Emergency Care Mandate Conflict
Harris Meyer
Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or infection. The OB-GYN has to make quick decisions about how to treat them,…
Tribe Embraces Recreational Marijuana Sales on Reservation Where Alcohol Is Banned
Arielle Zionts
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South…
Journalists Put Polio, Price Transparency, and a Personal Covid Battle in Perspective
KHN senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed New York’s polio case with WBEZ’s “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” on Aug. 2.
Click here to hear Allen on WBEZRead Allen’s “What the Polio Case in New York Tells Us About the End of Polio”KHN…
A GOP Talking Point Suggests Birth Control Is Not at Risk. Evidence Suggests Otherwise.
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
“In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited.”
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), co-chair, Congressional Pro-Life Caucus on the floor of the U.S. House, July…
Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear Covid-Related Brain Fog
Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on…
In California, Abortion Could Become a Constitutional Right. So Could Birth Control.
Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution.
If they vote “yes” on Proposition 1, they will also lock in a…
Skin Cancer Is a Risk No Matter the Skin Tone. But It May Be Overlooked in People With Dark Skin.
Sandy West
Brykyta Shelton found herself standing in a checkout line of a big-box retailer, uncomfortably aware as a woman ahead of her stared at her sandaled feet.
Shelton had been taking medication for months for what her…