{"id":4581,"date":"2025-03-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2025-03-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:00:00","slug":"journalists-demystify-bird-flu-medicaid-work-requirements-and-reproductive-health-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Demystify Bird Flu, Medicaid Work Requirements, and Reproductive Health Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health C\u00e9line Gounder discussed bird flu on CBS\u2019 \u201cCBS Mornings Plus\u201d on March 20. Gounder discussed funding cuts at Johns Hopkins University and other research institutions on CBS News\u2019 \u201cCBS Morning News\u201d on March 17. She also discussed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s airplane wastewater testing to prevent another pandemic on CBS News\u2019 \u201cCBS Evening News Plus\u201d on March 13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=searH2OztX4\">Click here to watch Gounder discuss bird flu on \u201cCBS Mornings Plus\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/johns-hopkins-university-says-its-laying-off-2200-due-to-usaid-funding-cuts\/\">Click here to watch Gounder discuss funding cuts on \u201cCBS Morning News\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/disease-detectives-hunting-for-viruses-international-airports\/\">Click here to watch Gounder discuss pandemic prevention on \u201cCBS Evening News Plus\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on Iowa Public Radio\u2019s \u201cRiver to River\u201d on March 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/podcast\/river-to-river\/2025-03-18\/lawmakers-consider-work-requirements-iowans-medicaid\">Click here to hear Whitehead on \u201cRiver to River\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/republicans-medicaid-cuts-congress-state-federal-budgets-insurance-explainer\/\">Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What\u2019s Medicaid, Again?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed reproductive health on Connecticut Public\u2019s \u201cWhere We Live\u201d on March 17. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpublic.org\/show\/where-we-live\/2025-03-17\/how-federal-funding-cuts-for-biomedical-research-impact-reproductive-health\">Click here to hear Rovner on \u201cWhere We Live\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News California correspondent Christine Mai-Duc discussed a shortfall in funding for Medi-Cal, California\u2019s Medicaid program, on LAist\u2019s \u201cAirTalk\u201d on March 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/shows\/airtalk\/checking-in-on-medi-cal-as-state-approves-3-billion-loan-and-concerns-of-federal-level-cuts-loom\">Click here to hear Mai-Duc on \u201cAirTalk\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Mai-Duc\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/california-medi-cal-medicaid-budget-shortfall-loan-general-fund-costs\/\">California Borrows $3.4 Billion for Medicaid Overrun as Congress Eyes Steep Cuts<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed the impact of recent CDC firings on public health on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on March 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-03-14\/georgia-health-report-cdc-staff-cuts-affect-new-public-health-workers\">Click here to hear Rayasam on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Rachana Pradhan\u2019s, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/the-week-in-brief-doge-cdc-firings-local-impact\/\">CDC Firings Fray Lifelines to Local Health Departments<\/a>,\u201d referenced by Rayasam  <\/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-march-22-2025-bird-flu-cdc-public-health-firings-medicaid\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health C\u00e9line Gounder discussed bird flu on CBS\u2019 \u201cCBS Mornings Plus\u201d on March 20. Gounder discussed funding cuts at Johns Hopkins University and other research institutions on CBS News\u2019 \u201cCBS Morning News\u201d on March 17. 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