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SACRAMENTO, California. — La iniciativa del presidente Donald Trump de eliminar un programa federal de preparación ante situaciones de desastre ha generado preocupación entre funcionarios de salud estatales, tanto en Texas —gobernado por republicanos— como en California, bastión demócrata. El Programa de Preparación Hospitalaria (HPP) fue creado hace más de dos décadas tras los ataques…

John Cleveland is ready to pay a lot more for his health insurance next year. He hasn’t forgotten the pile of hospital bills that awaited him after he had a seizure while tending to customers in his Austin, Texas, barbershop four years ago. Once doctors hurriedly removed the dangerous tumor growing on his brain, a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California. The Hospital Preparedness Program was created more than two decades ago in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City’s…

A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had covid-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these children had speech or motor delays, and the link was strongest in boys and when the mother was infected late in pregnancy. The…

Economist Vivian Ho has been researching the U.S. health care system for four decades. These days, she’s focused on what she thinks are the biggest burdens on the average American: runaway hospital prices and rising health insurance premiums. She has developed a strategy for addressing high insurance premiums — one that’s based on giving patients…

The distress that Will Bynum later recognized as shame settled over him nearly immediately. Bynum, then in his second year of residency training as a family medicine physician, was wrapping up a long shift when he was called into an emergency delivery. To save the baby’s life, he used a vacuum device, which applies suction…

By STEVEN ZECOLA Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has taken root in the field of drug discovery and development and already has shown signs of running past the traditional model of doing research.  Congress should take note of these rapid changes and: 1) direct the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to phase down the government’s…

Cuando hay un brote de una enfermedad prevenible con vacunas, los funcionarios estatales de salud pública habitualmente toman ciertas medidas para alertar a los residentes y difundir actualizaciones sobre la amenaza creciente. Esa es la práctica estándar, según expertos en salud pública y enfermedades infecciosas consultados por KFF Health News y NPR. El objetivo es…