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…
LISTEN: Bad credit can keep you from getting a job, a car loan, or an apartment to rent. For many Americans, health care debt is to blame. KFF Health News senior correspondent Noam N. Levey appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” on Nov. 12 to explain why new federal guidelines on health care debt and credit…
More than three-quarters of American adults didn’t get a covid shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations. The covid vaccine was initially popular. About 75% of Americans had received at least one dose of the first versions of the vaccine by early 2022,…
By KAYLA KELLY Every semester I have the privilege of guiding nursing students through their maternal and pediatric clinicals. At the beginning of the semester, their enthusiasm is contagious. They share stories about witnessing their first delivery, helping a new mother with breastfeeding, and practicing developmental assessments on pediatric patients. As the semester progresses, I…