Oct. 24
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Low-wage health care workers struggle with post-traumatic stress from the covid pandemic and living at home alone as you age can be bad for your physical health.
Oct. 17
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Health care companies and the federal government are teaming up to fund hospitals in rural areas, and Florida’s surgeon general is offering misleading guidance about this year’s covid shots.
Oct. 10
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Doctors are seeing more cases of life-threatening high blood pressure in pregnant and postpartum mothers, and new rules will require more adult-size changing tables in public buildings to accommodate people with disabilities.
Oct. 3
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: New data shows that getting a vaccine while pregnant is a good way to protect newborns from covid, and a Trump victory in November’s presidential election could allow more states to create burdensome work requirements for receiving public assistance.
Sept. 26
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Pediatricians won’t get refunds on all their unused covid vaccines, leaving some parents of children under 3 struggling to find them, and 2023 saw the largest number of abortions in more than a decade despite bans or heavy restrictions in 20 states.
Sept. 18
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Botox could help people with a painful health condition that prevents them from burping, and shooting survivors can face a scarcity of mental health providers as they try to recover from trauma.
Sept. 12
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: The end of Congressional money for covid could leave local health departments struggling to fulfill routine functions, and the error-prone computer systems operated by a private company are kicking eligible people off public assistance.
Sept. 5
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Hundreds of rural hospitals have stopped offering cancer care, and anti-abortion policymakers are targeting clinics as some states weigh legalizing abortion this fall.
Aug. 29
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Public health officials in Montana are turning to vending machines to provide free, lifesaving opioid overdose me …