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Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs
Emily Pisacreta and Emmarie Huetteman
Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist.
Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that is…
Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize
In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, ran on fumes, working as many as 80 hours a week in the ICU. He was constantly petrified that…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A(nother) Very Sad Week
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This week’s mass shooting of elementary schoolers in…
California Schools Try to Outrace Covid Outbreaks
Mark Kreidler
A fourth-grade camping trip led to one outbreak, a high school prom to another. But even with covid cases rising as schools head into the final stretch of the academic year, most California districts have not moved toward…
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. funding for its covid vaccine. Its…
Watch: UVA Doctor Talks About the State of the Pandemic and Health Equity
By Hannah Norman
May 26, 2022
Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News
Just as covid-19 vaccines were rolling out, Dr. Taison Bell spoke with KHN about why Black Americans were getting vaccinated at lower…
Police Suspect Arson at Wyoming Site of Clinic That Would Provide Abortions
Police suspect arson was behind a fire that damaged a clinic under construction in Casper that would become Wyoming’s sole site for procedural abortions.
A caller phoned 911 shortly before dawn Wednesday to report seeing…
The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations
BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson,…
As ‘Trigger Law’ Looms, New Clinic Preps to Provide Abortions in Conservative Bastion
Arielle Zionts
CASPER, Wyo. — A modest, tan building sandwiched between a gas station and a small apartment house near this Western city’s downtown has become an unexpected focal point of America’s abortion…
El nuevo movimiento MADD: padres toman acción contra las muertes por drogas
La vida tal como la conocía terminó para Matt Capelouto dos días antes de Navidad en 2019, cuando encontró a su hija de 20 años, Alexandra, muerta en la habitación de su infancia en Temecula, California. La ira superó al dolor…