Teen Volunteers Get a Foot in the Door for Nursing Home Careers Jasmine De Moya, 17, has dreamed for years of working in the medical field, and she yearned to spend time with older people, missing her gra...
Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, ...
Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don’t Try It at Home A federal price transparency rule that took effect this year was supposed to give patients, employers and insurers a clearer picture of the...
Drugmakers’ Spending on Stock, Dividends and Executive Pay Exceeds Research, Democrats Say The largest drug companies are far more interested in enriching themselves and investors than in developing new drugs, according to a House ...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Un-Trumping the ACA Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud . You can also listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Pocket Casts ...
A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice. Claire Lang-Ree was in a lab coat taking a college chemistry class remotely in the kitchen of her Colorado Springs, Colorado, home when a pr...
Covid’s Lingering Effects Can Put the Brakes on Elective Surgeries The week before Brian Colvin was scheduled for shoulder surgery in November, he tested positive for covid-19. What he thought at first was a...