This story was originally published by KFF Health News. It also ran on CBS News and can be republished for free. By Claire Sibonney, KFF Health News At Chain of Lakes Elementary School in Winter Haven, Florida, Josette Smith’s 9-year-old son, Ethan, gets to do what he loves most: crafts,
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, KFF Health News California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein
by Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes. The leading scientist urging policymakers
By Lauren Sausser, KFF Health News This story was originally published by KFF Health News. This story also ran on The Washington Post. Last year, Stephanie Halver’s primary care doctor consulted a risk assessment tool to calculate her chances of one day developing breast cancer. Halver, now 43, remembered the
By Shari Harding, Associate Professor of Nursing, UMass Chan Medical School As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I’m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any mental health treatment before the COVID-19 pandemic. During the
By Paula Span, KFF Health News On an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, to meet a friend at a cafe. While in the crosswalk, she noticed a car some distance away. Perhaps she misjudged its speed, because she’d walked only partway
By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine problems, but new research suggests another potential culprit that many people haven’t considered — droughts caused by climate change. A recent study published
By Arielle Zionts, KFF Health News One year into its creation, a $50 billion federal program aimed at improving rural healthcare lacks transparency, which could make it difficult to protect against fraud, identify successful projects, and ensure the program delivers on its promise to transform the system. Transparency “is really
By LJ Dawson, KFF Health News In the summer of 2024, Emilie and Justin Solomon found themselves on a top-secret mission in Greece. Their family and friends thought the adventure-loving couple was on another jet-setting vacation, but they were keeping something else under wraps: They had turned off their phone
This story was originally published by ProPublica. By Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica When Dr. Craig Towers moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2010, the high-risk obstetrician encountered a crisis unlike anything he’d seen. Towers, who had practiced for 25 years in California and Wisconsin, found himself caring for an unusual number of
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