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The Public Health Consequences of Public Housing Failures
Every year more than 10,000 taxpayer-supported public housing units are lost to disrepair. But federal lawmakers routinely ignore the full amount, around $115 billion, needed to keep the units in “decent, safe and sanitary”…
Florida’s New Covid Booster Guidance Is Straight-Up Misinformation
In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from covid-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially…
She Was Accused of Murder After Losing Her Pregnancy. SC Woman Now Tells Her Story.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer.
“Sorry it has taken this long for paperwork…
Las clínicas de abortos, y sus pacientes, se movilizan a medida que cambian las leyes estatales
En 2018, una serie de leyes estatales impidieron que una clínica de Planned Parenthood en Columbia, Missouri, siguiera practicando abortos. Poco después, la clínica envió parte de su equipamiento a otros estados donde el aborto…
La vejez en soledad, así vive un número histórico de estadounidenses
Gerri Norington, de 78 años, nunca quiso estar sola al envejecer.
Pero su primer matrimonio acabó en divorcio y su segundo marido murió hace más de 30 años. Cuando una relación de cinco años llegó a su fin en 2006, se…
Journalists Give Insights Into Opioid Settlements and Picking a Nursing Home
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed opioid settlements and the Supreme Court’s overturning of a bankruptcy deal involving Purdue Pharma on the “Front Porch Book Club” podcast on Sept. 17.…
Fighting Staff Shortages With Scholarships, California Bill Aims To Boost Mental Health Courts
A seemingly innocuous proposal to offer scholarships for mental health workers in California’s new court-ordered treatment program has sparked debate over whether the state should prioritize that program or tackle a wider labor…
Rural NC County Is Set To Reopen Its Shuttered Hospital With Help From a New Federal Program
Taylor Sisk
WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the day a year earlier when he snapped pictures as workers covered the facility’s sign.…
Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift
Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma.
It’s the second new clinic the regional…
California Medicaid Ballot Measure Is Popular, Well Funded — And Perilous, Opponents Warn
The proponents of Proposition 35, a November ballot initiative that would create a dedicated stream of funding to provide health care for California’s low-income residents, have assembled an impressive coalition: doctors,…