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Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
Autism Is a Spectrum: Here’s What That Really Means
What Do People Mean When They Say Autism Is a Spectrum? Autism is a relatively common developmental disability that most of us are at least somewhat familiar with. In the past couple of decades, experts have begun to refer to autism as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),...
Occupational Hazards: The Industries Most Affected by Mesothelioma
Which Industries Have Been Most Affected by Mesothelioma? Mesothelioma is a frustrating and deadly disease that impacts thousands of people every year. And the more we learn about the causal factors of the disease and its relationship with asbestos, the more it...
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In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions
In 2024, the Texas State Guard participated in Operation Border Health, a five-day free health clinic in Texas. The annual event was canceled this year after the Trump administration announced a plan to strip more than $550 million in federal public health and...
Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive
BOWMAN, N.D. — Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid into an MRI machine. Jacobi hoped the scan would help pinpoint the...
When I Go, I’m Going Green
Our annual family vacation on Cape Cod included all the familiar summer pleasures: climbing dunes, walking beaches, spotting seals, eating oysters, reading books we had intended to get to all year. And a little shopping. My grandkid wanted a few small toys. My...
Researchers Shift Tactics To Tackle Extremism as Public Health Threat
Rebecca Kasen has seen and heard things in recent years in and around Michigan’s capital city that she never would have expected. “It’s a very weird time in our lives,” said Kasen, executive director of the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. Last November, a group of...
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: On Capitol Hill, RFK Defends Firings at CDC
The Host Just days after his firing of the brand-new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a defiant Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, defended that action and others before a sometimes skeptical Senate...
Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue States
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living...
He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States.
It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan state health director, he had spent the past year, and some $30 million in state tax dollars, trying to avoid that very thing. Gordon was a Democrat, a...
Error leaves 55,000 diabetes patients needing new tests
7 hours agoShareSaveNat WrightHealth ProducerShareSaveGetty ImagesJudith BurnsBBC NewsShareSaveErrors by machines used to diagnose diabetes mean at least 55,000 people in England will need further blood tests, a BBC investigation has discovered.Some patients have been...
RFK Jr. Faces Senate Finance Committee: A Live Discussion
[embedded content] Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony before the Senate Finance Committee follows the ouster last week of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez. At least four other senior CDC...
Listen: Limiting Benefits and Adding Restrictions, ‘MAHA’ Reshapes Food Aid
LISTEN: Carrot or the stick? Some nutritionists say incentives are the best way to improve the diets of low-income Americans on food aid, while the Trump administration seems focused on restrictions. KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam appeared on...
As Insurers Struggle With GLP-1 Drug Costs, Some Seek To Wean Patients Off
After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from her pharmacy benefit manager in April. Her request for coverage had been denied, the letter said, because she’d had a body mass index of less than...
Fighting a Health Insurance Denial? Here Are 7 Tips To Help
(DigitalVision/Getty Images) When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle. It took years, a chain of conflicting decisions, and a health...