March 24, 2025
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On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building.
The event, put together by Atlanta-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, was attended mostly by union members and recently fired federal workers, including Ryan Sloane.
“I was fired by an anonymous email at 9 p.m. in the middle of a holiday weekend,” he said.
Sloane is still seeking reinstatement, but he feels he no longer...
March 24, 2025
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Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
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- March 22, 2025
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A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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- March 22, 2025
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Married to Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, she became a proponent of electroshock therapy after unsuccessful treatments for alcoholism and depression.
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- March 22, 2025
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KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed bird flu on CBS’ “CBS Mornings Plus” on March 20. Gounder discussed funding cuts at Johns Hopkins University and other research institutions on CBS News’ “CBS Morning News” on March 17. She also discussed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s airplane wastewater testing to prevent another pandemic on CBS News’ “CBS Evening News Plus” on March 13
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- March 22, 2025
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The number of cases will increase, but the rates seem to be declining with every birth cohort that reaches advanced ages, researchers said.
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- March 21, 2025
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Vaccination efforts have faltered, and many residents have turned to alternative treatments endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.
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- March 21, 2025
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While Congress considers potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, tribal health leaders are bracing for a crisis.
Indian Country has a unique relationship to Medicaid, because the program helps tribes cover chronic funding shortfalls left by the Indian Health Service, the federal agency responsible for providing health care to Native Americans.
With the related Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid provides coverage to more than...
- March 21, 2025
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His studies showed that a B vitamin deficiency could cause hardened arteries. It took the medical profession more than a decade to catch up.
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- March 21, 2025
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A policy change by the Trump administration allows federal immigration officials to make arrests at or near sensitive locations, including health care facilities. To respond, some health providers are scrambling to give their staff legal training.
In a memo to health care providers, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown advises health workers that they need not record...
- March 20, 2025
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A judge has initiated a federal court takeover of California’s troubled prison mental health system by naming the former head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to serve as receiver, giving her four months to craft a plan to provide adequate care for tens of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illness.
Senior U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller issued her order March 19, identifying Colette Peters as the nominated receiver....
- March 20, 2025
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The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI programs could exacerbate an unexpectedly steep drop in diversity among medical school students, even in states like California, where public universities have been navigating bans on affirmative action for decades. Education and health experts warn that, ultimately, this could harm patient care.
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has issued a handful of executive orders aimed at terminating all...
- March 20, 2025
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“Cognitive shuffling” can calm a busy brain.
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- March 19, 2025
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The move comes after a series of cuts to prevention and treatment efforts worldwide. Some functions might be moved to another agency, officials said.
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- March 19, 2025
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The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula. Earlier funding cutbacks under the Biden administration now threaten state labs and inspectors.
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- March 19, 2025
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As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe.
That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the program would be detrimental to those patients and the facility, said Debra Danforth, the director of the Oneida...
- March 18, 2025
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The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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- March 18, 2025
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In 2019, Cristina Iglesias filed a lawsuit that changed the course of treatment for herself and other transgender inmates in federal custody.
Iglesias, a trans woman who had been incarcerated for more than 25 years, was transferred from a men’s prison to a women’s one in 2021. And in 2022, she reached a landmark settlement with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to receive gender-affirming...
- March 18, 2025
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Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
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- March 17, 2025
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The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the vast Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the largest agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Oz, with his long history in television, was as polished as one would expect, brushing off even some more controversial parts of his past with apparent ease. In this special bonus episode of “What the Health?,”...
- March 16, 2025
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National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
The mRNA technology is under study at the NIH for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including flu and AIDS,...
- March 16, 2025
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Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.
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- March 15, 2025
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In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
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- March 15, 2025
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KFF Health News senior correspondent David Hilzenrath discussed how the FDA allows risky chemicals in America’s food supply on CBS’ “CBS Mornings Plus” on March 11.
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KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the measles outbreak on CBS’ “CBS Mornings” on March 7. She also...
- March 14, 2025
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BOSTON — On days when the sun was shining and the air was warm with a gentle, cooling breeze, Ateiya Sowers-Hassell liked to keep the salon door open. Labor Day was one of those days. Sowers-Hassell was tending to two clients at Salvaged Roots, the natural hair salon and spa in the Four Corners section of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood where she works as a stylist. She was...
- March 14, 2025
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When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted ads.
When patients picked up prescriptions for testosterone replacement therapy, law enforcement retrieved their names and addresses without a warrant.
And when a father was arrested by immigration authorities, agents allegedly accessed his personal information from a medical clinic where he received diabetes...
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