As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Biden Administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so....
Trump official who OK'd drugs from Canada chairs company behind Florida's import plan ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Food and Drug Administration’s unprecedented approval of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after Alex Azar, as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, certified that bringing medicines over the border could be done safely....
Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It's Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School ( kffhealthnews.org )
'I’m not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion ( kffhealthnews.org )
Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom....
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Science Says Teens Need More Sleep. So Why Is It So Hard to Start School Later? - KFF Health News ( kffhealthnews.org )
Patients See First Savings From Biden’s Drug Price Push, as Pharma Lines Up Its Lawyers ( kffhealthnews.org )
Do We Simply Not Care About Old People? ( kffhealthnews.org )
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults....
Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age ( kffhealthnews.org )
Lewis Morgenstern has made up his mind. When he turns 65 in four years, he’s going to sign an advance directive for driving....
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions ( kffhealthnews.org )
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More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System ( kffhealthnews.org )
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system....
Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States ( kffhealthnews.org )
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth....
Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary ( kffhealthnews.org )
Pregnancy care was always lacking in jails. It could get worse. ( kffhealthnews.org )
It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier’s door and told her that someone anonymously requested a welfare check because they thought she might have had a miscarriage....
Death and Redemption in an American Prison ( kffhealthnews.org )
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury found them guilty of second-degree murder. They were sentenced...
Where are the nation’s primary care providers? It’s not an easy answer ( kffhealthnews.org )
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado....
Experts: US hospitals prone to cyberattacks like one that hurt patient care at Ascension ( kffhealthnews.org )
In the wake of a debilitating cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Marvin Ruckle, a nurse at an Ascension hospital in Wichita, Kansas, said he had a frightening experience: He nearly gave a baby “the wrong dose of narcotic” because of confusing paperwork....
California Leaders Tussle With Health Industry Over Billions of New Dollars for Medi-Cal ( kffhealthnews.org )
Older Women Are Different Than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals ( kffhealthnews.org )
Heat Rules for California Workers Would Also Help Keep Schoolchildren Cool ( kffhealthnews.org )
He Fell Ill on a Cruise. Before He Boarded the Rescue Boat, They Handed Him the Bill. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments ( kffhealthnews.org )
