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At least two Idaho hospitals are ending labor and delivery services, with one citing the stateās ālegal and political climateā and noting that ārecruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficultā as doctors leave.
Pharmaceutical companies have put the brakes on many statesā ability to execute prisoners using lethal injections. Lacking alternatives, states are trying to keep the public from learning details about how they carry out executions.
The removals, detailed in emails between state and federal health officials, hinged on disagreements over how states could disenroll people during the public health emergency. Consumer advocates fear the alleged violation signals the mess to come on April 1, when the pandemic-era Medicaid coverage mandate ends.
Supporters of a proposed law say it would fill a health provider gap in rural areas, while doctors worry it will give pharmacists power outside the scope of their education.
Yes, the U.S. is experiencing an unusual spate of childhood RSV infections. But the critical shortage of hospital beds to treat ailing children stems from structural problems in pediatric care that have been brewing for years.
Fifteen states havenāt moved to extend Medicaid coverage for new moms beyond the minimum of 60 days after birth. But at least four of those holdout states ā Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi ā are expected to consider proposals to extend coverage in their upcoming legislative sessions.
New U.S. Census Bureau data shows a large segment of Californians are working from home for part or all of the week. Researchers say the shift will ripple through the broader economy in ways big and small.
As the covid-19 pandemic grinds on, Elko County, Nevada, still lacks a public health department. Yet its elected leaders rejected federal funds that could have helped it create one. Decisions like the one in Elko, and ones made by officials with other state and local governments, leave health experts concerned about whether the country's public health infrastructure will be prepared to handle future health challenges.
Colorado, Florida, and Idaho are the latest states to opt out of a survey that tracks concerning behaviors in high school students. Officials cite low participation and state laws that require parental permission. But some advocates say dwindling state participation is an āenormous lossā that will make it harder to track signs of poor mental health ā like drug and alcohol misuse and suicidal ideation ā among teens.
People in jails and prisons are particularly vulnerable to the fallout from the Supreme Courtās reversal of Roe v. Wade.
In the first official test vote since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters in Kansasā primary said in no uncertain terms they want to keep a right to abortion in their state constitution. Meanwhile, the Senate is still working to reach a vote before summer recess on its health care-climate-tax measure, but progress is slow. Tami Luhby of CNN, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHNās Bram Sable-Smith, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR āBill of the Monthā installment about a very expensive ambulance trip.
Montana is an island of legal abortion, but three of the stateās five clinics are limiting access to abortion pills for out-of-state patients in an effort to protect themselves and patients from legal attacks.
A bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement on guns that focuses on mental health raises hopes and doubts in rural Western states with high suicide rates and easy access to guns.
A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from covid. But a KHN review shows public health agencies across the country have been slow to spend it.
If the Supreme Court affirms the leaked draft decision and overturns abortion rights, the effects would be sweeping in states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of a womanās right to terminate a pregnancy.
Conservative lawmakers may find their anti-abortion agendas complicated by state constitutions that explicitly grant citizens the right to privacy, regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court does.
Stores like Walmart and Shopko opened pharmacies in small towns, either buying out the local pharmacy or driving it out of business. What happens when those chains later withdraw, leaving communities with no pharmacy?
Hospitals in Montana and Idaho reported threats and harassment from public officials and family members of patients who were denied treatment with a drug not authorized to treat covid-19.
At least 26 states have passed laws to permanently limit public health powers, a KHN investigation has found, weakening the countryās ability to fight not only the current resurgence of the pandemic but other health crises to come.
Black Americansā vaccination rates still trail all other groups, while Hispanics show improvement. Native Americans show the strongest rates nationally.
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