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Se agrava la crisis del fentanilo en California
California ha destinado más de $1,000 millones en los últimos años a combatir la crisis de los opioides. Gran parte del dinero se ha utilizado para distribuir tiras reactivas de fentanilo y naloxona, el fármaco que revierte las…
He Returned to the US for His Daughter’s Wedding. He Left With a $42,000 Hospital Bill.
Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home in Switzerland to attend his only daughter’s wedding. But the week before the ceremony — on a Friday evening — Comfort said he found himself in “excruciating pain.”…
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…