As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media age. The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls and women under age 50 for more than…
What drug characteristics lead to higher vs. lower prices in the US? A paper by Beinfeld et al. (2025) finds the answer using data from SSR Health (about rebates) and Tufts Medical Center Specialty Drug Evidence and Coverage (SPEC) database (to inform drug characteristics. Among the 161 drugs in both SSR and SPEC data, the…
En julio, agentes federales de inmigración llevaron a Milagro Solís-Portillo al Glendale Memorial Hospital, en las afueras de Los Ángeles, luego que sufriera una emergencia médica estando detenida. Nunca se fueron del hospital. Durante dos semanas, contratistas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) hicieron guardia en el vestíbulo del hospital las 24…
While the FDA is streamlining regulation of copycat versions of the expensive drugs that millions take for arthritis, cancer, and other diseases, the U.S. patent office is making it harder for the cheaper medicines to get on the market, industry officials say. These officials were thrilled Oct. 29 when FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the…
In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just outside Los Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while being detained. They didn’t leave. For two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors sat guard in the hospital lobby 24 hours a day, working in shifts to monitor her movements, her attorney…
LOS ÁNGELES, CA. — Kris Edwards esperaba en casa con unos amigos a que su esposa, Erika “Tilly” Edwards, regresara para salir a cenar; pero ella nunca volvió a la casa que habían comprado apenas cuatro días antes. Alrededor de las 9 p.m. del 29 de junio, un conductor que se dio a la fuga…
By KIM BELLARD These are, it must be said, grim times for American science. Between the Trump budget cuts, the Trump attacks on leading research universities, and the normalization of misinformation/ disinformation, scientists are losing their jobs, fleeing to other countries, or just trying to keep their heads down in hopes of being able to…
KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed rising health care premiums on KPFA’s “Up Front” on Nov. 13. Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on “Up Front” (starts at 08:19). Read Boyd-Barrett’s “Health Care Costs Jump to the Fore as Candidates Jockey To Be California Governor.” KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner…
Rising health care costs and the impending expiration of expanded Obamacare subsidies fueled the record-setting government shutdown that ended this week. But there’s another driver of escalating costs and prices playing out in a far broader, more impactful way: the rapid consolidation of insurers, hospital systems, doctors’ groups, and pharmacies into behemoths, effectively giving them…
Línea de ayuda nacional para casos de violencia doméstica: Las personas que han sufrido abuso doméstico pueden recibir ayuda confidencial en thehotline.org o llamando al 800-799-7233. La inmigrante originaria de India le creyó a su esposo cuando le dijo por teléfono que la mataría, si todavía estaba en su casa de Georgia para cuando él…