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WASHINGTON — Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day. “I have these conversations with children starting at 8, 10, 12 years…
LOS ÁNGELES, CA — Mia Angulo, que está embarazada y dará a luz en mayo, vive en una tienda de campaña con su novio en el vecindario predominantemente latino de Boyle Heights. El dolor persistente por un accidente de auto ocurrido hace dos meses, sumado a una vida ya difícil, tiene a Angulo preocupada por…
La primera señal apareció cuando Deepanwita Dasgupta tenía 5 años y empezó a tropezar más a menudo mientras jugaba en su casa en Bangalore, en el sur de India. La niña siempre estaba haciendo algo; por eso sus padres pensaron que los golpes y moretones extra eran simplemente parte de una infancia activa. Quizás, pensaron,…
LOS ANGELES — Mia Angulo, who is pregnant and due in May, is living in a tent with her boyfriend in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Lingering pain from a car crash two months ago, on top of an already hardscrabble life, has Angulo worried about her pregnancy. So, she was relieved when…
It’s open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage, when people currently enrolled in private managed-care plans can either sign up for a new one or switch to original Medicare through March 31. But there’s a catch: If people want to move to original Medicare and buy a supplemental Medigap insurance plan to cover some out-of-pocket costs,…
LISTEN: Is it worth it to set up a health savings account? HealthQ has answers. When Mike McKee thinks about saving money for the future, he has a few priorities. Maxing out his retirement is one. Building up his kid’s college fund is another. Opening up a health savings account? Not so much, even though…
Jesse Shoplock is SVP of Business Development at Inbox Health. They are trying to help one of the messiest parts of American health care, figuring out both how much patients owe at the point of care and how to actually help the providers get paid. As of now 70% of patients don’t know what they…
KFF Health News southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on WUGA’s The Georgia Health Report on March 6. Click here to hear Whitehead on The Georgia Health Report. Read Whitehead’s “New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard,” co-reported with Samantha Liss. KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed…