{"id":11702,"date":"2026-02-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:00:00","slug":"ice-als-addiction-medicine-and-robotic-ultrasounds-journalists-sound-off-on-all-that-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11702","title":{"rendered":"ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio\u2019s <em>Insight With Vicki Gonzalez<\/em> on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/news\/insight\/2026\/02\/25\/downtown-sacs-10-year-plan-ice-in-ca-hospitals-childrens-book-this-hair-belongs\/\">Insight With Vicki Gonzalez<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Boyd-Barrett\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/ice-immigrants-hospitals-detainees-patients-rights-family-blackout-policies-california\/\">\u2018I Can\u2019t Tell You\u2019: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 editor-at-large for public health, discussed the neurodegenerative disease ALS on CBS News\u2019 <em>CBS Mornings<\/em> on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sXf1qakCyo\">Click here to watch Gounder on <em>CBS Mornings<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani\u00a0discussed Elyse Stevens, a New Orleans doctor who faced investigation because of her patient-centered approach to substance use disorders, on The Lens\u2019 <em>Behind The Lens<\/em> podcast on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelensnola.org\/2026\/02\/20\/innovative-or-ill-advised-a-nola-addiction-doctor-leaves-after-her-novel-approach-raises-questions-at-her-hospital\/\">Click here to hear Pattani on <em>Behind The Lens<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Pattani\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/addiction-medicine-harm-reduction-opioids-louisiana-doctor-battle\/\">Inside the Battle for the Future of Addiction Medicine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News chief rural correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed major cuts to Medicaid on WBUR\u2019s <em>Here &amp; Now<\/em> on Feb. 19. Tribble also discussed Alabama\u2019s plan for robotic ultrasounds on The Daily Yonder\u2019s <em>The Yonder Report<\/em> on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/02\/19\/medicaid-cuts-rural-funding\">Click here to hear Tribble on <em>Here &amp; Now<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/676Iw0crzBceDmBHCwZeWz?si=GEq8Q_5YSnyN_bOb6nSVsg&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=dbf8b40e1c944fab\">Click here to hear Tribble on <em>The Yonder Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Tribble\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/alabama-robot-ultrasounds-maternity-care-rural-health-oz\/\">Alabama\u2019s \u2018Pretty Cool\u2019 Plan for Robots in Maternity Care Sparks Debate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-february-28-2026-ice-hospitalization-custody-als-substance-use-addiction\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio\u2019s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25. Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on Insight With Vicki Gonzalez. Read Boyd-Barrett\u2019s \u201c\u2018I Can\u2019t Tell You\u2019:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}