By KIM BELLARD News flash: America is not a very happy place these days. No, I’m not talking about the current political divide (which is probably more accurately described as a chasm), at least not directly. I’m referring to the latest results from the World Happiness Report, which found that the U.S. has slid to…
En un soleado día de semana en Atlanta, un pequeño grupo de personas se reunió para realizar una manifestación frente a la sede de un sindicato. Al evento, organizado por Nikema Williams, representante demócrata en el Congreso nacional, asistieron miembros del sindicato y también trabajadores federales recientemente despedidos, entre ellos Ryan Sloane. “Me despidieron a…
BOULDER, Colorado — Los organismos reguladores de Colorado están emitiendo licencias que permiten suministrar hongos psicodélicos con fines terapéuticos. A fines de la primavera o principios del verano es posible que ya estén autorizados los primeros “centros de sanación” estatales, donde se podrán consumir los hongos bajo supervisión. Esto ocurre casi dos años después de…
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The dawn of state-regulated psychedelic mushrooms has arrived in Colorado, nearly two years since Oregon began offering them. The…
On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building. The event, put together by Atlanta-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, was attended mostly by union members and recently fired federal workers, including Ryan Sloane. “I was fired by an anonymous email at…
Tanay Tandon is CEO of Commure, which is essentially a startup conglomerate which includes the original Commure, Tanay’s company Athelas, ambient scribe Augmedix, the Strongline staff safety product, Memora Health’s workflows and more. HCA, the big for-profit chain, is one of the biggest customers and an investor in Commure. I grabbed Tanay at HIMSS earlier…
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed bird flu on CBS’ “CBS Mornings Plus” on March 20. Gounder discussed funding cuts at Johns Hopkins University and other research institutions on CBS News’ “CBS Morning News” on March 17. She also discussed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s airplane wastewater testing to…
While Congress considers potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, tribal health leaders are bracing for a crisis. Indian Country has a unique relationship to Medicaid, because the program helps tribes cover chronic funding shortfalls left by the Indian Health Service, the federal agency responsible for providing health care to Native Americans. With the related…
https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/031925HHICERAIDS.mp3 A policy change by the Trump administration allows federal immigration officials to make arrests at or near sensitive locations, including health care facilities. To respond, some health providers are scrambling to give their staff legal training. In a memo to health care providers, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown advises health workers that they need…
By MATTHEW HOLT The big news in the comeback of digital health is that Hinge Health filed its S1 and is looking to go public soon. I suspect that they’d have preferred to get the IPO done late last year when the AI bubble was expanding rather than deflating, but timing the market is tough!…