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Doctors Abandon a Diagnosis Used to Justify Police Custody Deaths. It Might Live On, Anyway.
Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020.
The…
Listen: Inroads for Women in California’s Health Care Workforce
KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart moderated a panel about women in the health care workforce for an event hosted by Capitol Weekly on Sept. 28 in Sacramento.
California faces a shortfall of health care…
Medicare Enrollees Can Switch Coverage Now. Here’s What’s New and What to Consider.
Consumers know it’s fall when stores start offering Halloween candy and flu shots — and airwaves and mailboxes are filled with advertisements for Medicare options.
It’s annual open enrollment time again for the 65 million…
A Third of Schools Don’t Have a Nurse. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the first week of school, the parade started before…
Journalists Offer Insights on Mobile Clinics and Suicide Prevention
KFF Health News chief rural health correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed Dollar General mobile clinics on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Oct. 11.
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Read Tribble’s “What…
Rare ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacterium Spreads North as Oceans Warm
Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin climbing onto her friend’s pontoon for a day of boating in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 13.
Even though her friend immediately dressed the slight cut,…
The New Vaccines and You: Americans Better Armed Than Ever Against the Winter Blechs
Last year’s “triple-demic” marked the beginning of what may be a new normal: a confluence of respiratory infections — RSV, influenza, and covid-19 — will surge as the weather cools each year.
Like blizzards, the specific timing…
Goody Gumdrops! It’s Freakin’ Time to Submit Your Scariest Halloween Health Care Haikus.
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…
California Bans Controversial ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed as a “watershed…
‘I’m So Burned Out’: Fighting to See a Specialist Amplified Pain for Riverside County Woman
SAN JACINTO, Calif. — Teresa Johnson can’t escape the pain. It’s as if she’s getting pierced by needles all over her body, all at once. At night, she sometimes jolts out of sleep thinking bedbugs are attacking her. But it’s just…