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Small, Rural Communities Have Become Abortion Access Battlegrounds
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. — In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived in this 4,500-person city that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion.
Dickson is the director of the anti-abortion group Right to Life of…
California’s Fentanyl Problem Is Getting Worse
Don Thompson
California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver…
Por qué los adultos jóvenes tienen menos sexo que el que tuvieron sus padres
Los adultos jóvenes no actúan como sus padres: no beben tanto, enfrentan más problemas de salud mental y viven más tiempo con mamá y papá. Además, los videojuegos y las redes sociales se han convertido en una especie de sustituto…
A More Aggressive FTC Is Starting to Target Drug Mergers and Industry Middlemen
Arthur Allen
Under the leadership of an aggressive opponent of anti-competitive business practices, the Federal Trade Commission is moving against drug companies and industry middlemen as part of the Biden administration’s push for lower…
A Striking Gap Between Deaths of Black and White Babies Plagues the South
BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies.
These days, there’s not even…
Young People Are Having Less Sex Than Their Parents Did at Their Age. Researchers Explore Why.
Young adults aren’t behaving the way their parents did: They’re not drinking as much, they’re facing more mental health challenges, and they’re living with their parents longer. On top of that, computer games and social…
Journalists Unpack Facility School Closures and Federal Investment in Crisis Hotlines
KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed Colorado facility schools on Rocky Mountain Community Radio on May 12.
Click here to hear Bichell on Rocky Mountain Community Radio
Read Bichell’s “Students in Rural…
Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Michelle Andrews
“We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in an April 30, 2023, interview on CNN’s “State…
When Older Parents Resist Help or Advice, Use These Tips to Cope
It was a regrettable mistake. But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time.
Her 80-year-old mother, Harriet Burkel, had fallen at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, fractured her pelvis, and gone to a…
Remote Work: An Underestimated Benefit for Family Caregivers
For Aida Beltré, working remotely during the pandemic came as a relief.
She was taking care of her father, now 86, who has been in and out of hospitals and rehabs after a worsening series of strokes in recent years.
Working…