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From the FDA’s Empty Seat to Chock-Full ICUs, Journalists Recap the Week’s Stories
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A Conversation with USIP’s Mona Yacoubian on Diplomacy, Peace-building and Development
The morning’s solid narrative. Host Carol Castiel and VOA senior diplomatic correspondent, Cindy Saine, talk with Mona Yacoubian, a senior official at the US Institute of Peace who tells VOA that the end of the US military intervention…
Científicos dicen que una píldora diaria para tratar covid estaría a meses de distancia
Un día después de dar positivo para covid-19 en junio, Miranda Kelly estaba lo suficientemente enferma como para asustarse. Con 44 años, hipertensión y diabetes, la asistente de enfermería tenía problemas para respirar, síntoma…
A Daily Pill to Treat Covid Could Be Just Months Away, Scientists Say
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News
Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having…
Low Wages and Pandemic Gut Staffing Support for Those With Disabilities
Ernestine “Erma” Bryant likes her job, but the pay is a problem.
She works in a caregiver role as a “direct support professional” in Tifton, Georgia, helping people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities…
Mounting Covid Deaths Fuel School Bus Drivers’ Fears
Andy Miller and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
GRIFFIN, Ga. — Natalia D’Angelo got sick right after school started in August.
She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County…
California Moves on Climate Change, but Rejects Aggressive Cuts to Greenhouse Emissions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state’s 40 million…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Autumn of Democrats’ Discontent
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Democrats in Congress and the…
The Checkup Is in the Mail? Soliciting Letter Carriers to Help Deliver Health Care
Two of America’s toughest problems can be tempered with one solution.
The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is ill equipped to meet…
Biosimilar Drugs Are Cheaper Than Biologics. Are They Similar Enough to Switch?
It took years for Elle Moxley to get a diagnosis that explained her crippling gastrointestinal pain, digestion problems, fatigue, and hot, red rashes. And after learning in 2016 that she had Crohn’s disease, a chronic…