{"id":16037,"date":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=16037"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:00","slug":"journalists-go-behind-health-headlines-from-georgia-michigan-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=16037","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Go Behind Health Headlines From Georgia, Michigan, and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Jordan Rau discussed the use of antipsychotic drugs in sedating dementia patients on Michigan Public\u2019s <em>Stateside<\/em> on Oct. 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/stateside\/2026-10-06\/stateside-tuesday-oct-6-2026\">Click here to hear Rau on <em>Stateside<\/em><\/a>, starting at 31:11.<\/p>\n<p>Read Rau\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/aging\/dementia-drugs-antipsychotic-dangers-memory-care-seniors-alzheimers-michigan\/\">Drugs Are Widely Used To Sedate Dementia Patients. Her Sons Wanted To Keep Her Off Them<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF Health News\u2019 editor-at-large for public health, discussed\u00a0the death of a lab researcher in Russia who was studying the plague on CBS News 24\/7\u2019s <em>The Daily Report<\/em> on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tAe0GXraNDk\">Click here to watch Gounder on <em>The Daily Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Georgia correspondent Briah Lumpkins\u00a0discussed how healthcare costs and other economic challenges are being received by rural voters on WUGA\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em>\u00a0on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2026-10-02\/georgia-health-report-economic-downturn-affects-healthcare-costs-for-rural-voters\">Click here to hear Lumpkins on <em>The Georgia Health Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/rural-health\/ap-kff-poll-rural-voters-economy-costs-trump-midterms-senate\/\">Economic Frustration Tests Trump\u2019s Standing With Rural Voters, New KFF-AP Poll Finds<\/a>,\u201d by Sarah Jane Tribble and The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><em><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>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/on-air\/on-air-october-10-2026-dementia-sedation-drugs-russia-lab-death-rural-voters\/\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">KFF Health News<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Jordan Rau discussed the use of antipsychotic drugs in sedating dementia patients on Michigan Public\u2019s Stateside on Oct. 6. Click here to hear Rau on Stateside, starting at 31:11. Read Rau\u2019s \u201cDrugs Are Widely Used To Sedate Dementia Patients. Her Sons Wanted To Keep Her Off Them.\u201d C\u00e9line Gounder, KFF&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16037","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\/16037"}],"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=16037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}