Kaiser Health News

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Abortion Laws and Emergency Care Mandate Put Patients, Doctors In Gray Zone

The Biden administration argues a federal law requiring providers to offer stabilizing treatment, including abortion when necessary, trumps abortion bans.

Aug 9, 2022

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When Mental Illness Leads To Dropped Charges, Patients Often Go Without Stabilizing Care

Even in states with programs to stabilize people with a serious mental illness, such as Oregon, treatment isn’t guaranteed.

Aug 4, 2022

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To Retain Nurses And Other Staffers, Hospitals Are Opening Child Care Centers

Some hospitals are now considering child care centers as a means of solving one of the pandemic era’s big challenges: persuading employees to stay.

Aug 1, 2022

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Hospices Have Become Big Business For Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care

Two-thirds of hospices, once primarily run by nonprofit entities, are now for-profit — and they are increasingly a target for private equity firms.

Jul 30, 2022

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Health Insurance Price Data: It’s Out There, But It’s Not For The Faint Of Heart

Health insurers are now posting their negotiated rates for medical services, but it could still be weeks before data firms put it into usable forms.

Jul 28, 2022

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Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?

Even as specialists in infectious diseases praise the treatment’s effectiveness, many doctors say they have questions about prescribing the drug and want better data.

Jul 28, 2022

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COURTNEY BOGGS, A MEMBER OF THE CURE MITO FOUNDATION, WITH HUSBAND JACOB AND DAUGHTERS EMMA (LEFT) AND RILEY. EMMA, 6, WHO HAS LEIGH SYNDROME, CAN'T WALK WITHOUT ASSISTANCE AND EATS THROUGH A FEEDING TUBE. THE FOUNDATION HAS BEEN WORKING FOR A TREATMENT, BUT THE COMPANY IT PARTNERED WITH HAS PAUSED ITS WORK ON IT./RANDY BOGGS/KHN

Parents Become Drug Developers To Save Their Children’s Lives

Some families are forming their own biotech businesses to help their children, acting as drug developers to find treatments for ultra-rare diseases that affect 1,000 patients or fewer.

Jul 26, 2022

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DANI MARIETTI (HOLDING SIGN) AND HER FRIENDS GATHER FOR A “STERILIZATION SHOWER” IN HELENA, MONTANA, IN JULY BEFORE MARIETTI WAS SCHEDULED TO HAVE HER FALLOPIAN TUBES SURGICALLY REMOVED./ELLIS JUHLIN/ YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO

Post-‘Roe,’ People Are Seeking Permanent Sterilizations, and Some Are Being Turned Away

The uncertainty around abortion access in states where abortion is now or could become illegal has seemingly spurred a rise in the number of people seeking surgical sterilization, doctors say.

Jul 26, 2022

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Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers And Is Poised To Thwart More Consolidation Attempts

Jul 20, 2022

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As Big Pharma Loses Interest In New Antibiotics, Infections Grow Stronger

Nearly 50,000 Americans die of resistant bacterial infections each year, but the FDA has not approved a new antibiotic since 2019.

Jul 17, 2022