As Health Insurance Costs Soar, Healthcare Workers Also Feel the Pinch BOISE, Idaho — Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health ins...
It’s Hard To Predict Who Will Be Suicidal. It’s Easier To Ensure People Can’t Shoot Themselves. Paul Nestadt is about as steeped in suicide prevention as a person can be. He treats suicidal patients as a psychiatrist, has co-a...
The Drugs and Devices Have Been on the Market for Years. But FDA-Ordered Studies Still Aren’t Done. When the FDA was deciding whether to approve the drug Tavneos several years ago to treat a set of rare autoimmune diseases , agency ex...
3 Common Drugs Older Adults Might Be Overusing The scenario often unfolds like this: Medical researchers investigate a frequently used drug and report that it’s less effective for o...
States Bet Big on Rural Health Startups, With a Silicon Valley Twist Your browser does not support the audio element. Can’t see the audio player? Visit kffhealthnews.org to listen. Whe...
A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer’s lasting damage to her organs and...