Many Voters Backed Abortion Rights and Donald Trump, a Challenge for Democrats
Despite widespread support for protecting abortion rights, voters said the cost of gas, housing, food, and health care was more important to their choice for president.
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Despite widespread support for protecting abortion rights, voters said the cost of gas, housing, food, and health care was more important to their choice for president.
Victims of the opioid crisis, health advocates, and public policy experts have repeatedly called on state and local governments to transparently report how theyāre using the funds they are receiving from settlements with opioid makers and distributors.
Voters in 10 states weighed in on abortion rights this election. Despite the results supporting abortion rights in seven of those states, much of the abortion landscape on abortion wonāt change much immediately, as medical providers navigate the legal hurdles that remain.
The new Trump administration is likely to reduce subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans and roll back Medicaid coverage. Public health authorities worry that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be empowered.
The nationās Catholic health systems were largely founded and led by nuns with a mission to serve the sick regardless of their creed or financial means. Today, no nuns run any U.S. Catholic health system, while many of these hospitals pull in billions, according to their financial reports.
The coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of paid sick leave, a benefit to help workers and their families when they fall ill. Now voters in Missouri, Nebraska, and Alaska are deciding whether employers must provide it.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony talks about how racism affects health on Nine PBSā āListen, St. Louis with Carol Daniel,ā stemming from her reporting for the āSilence in Sikestonā multimedia project, on the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community.
Eight months after the Feb. 14 shooting, people wounded at the Kansas City Chiefs parade are wary of more gun violence. In this installment of āThe Injured,ā survivors of the shooting say they feel gun violence is inescapable and are desperately seeking a sense of safety.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony discusses her reporting for the āSilence in Sikestonā multimedia project, which explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community ā and what it led her to learn about her own familyās past.
Former President Donald Trump has presided over a landslide shift in Republican views on vaccines, reflected in false claims by candidates in election primaries, puzzling conspiracies from prominent conservatives, and a surge in anti-vaccine policies in statehouses.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and California Healthline staffers made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
A remote Wyoming community hoped for years to have more access to health care. Now, after receiving federal funding, it is bucking dismal closure trends throughout the rural U.S. and building its own hospital. And itās not the only one.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony sat down with WORLD executive producer Chris Hastings to discuss the origins of the āSilence in Sikestonā project, which explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing in the same rural Missouri community.
The state has among the highest levels of medical debt in the country, data shows.
Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away ā and are expanding in response. Despite the Supreme Courtās overturning of federal protections in 2022, abortions are now at their highest numbers in a decade.
The āSilence in Sikestonā documentary film explores how the nationās first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and Retro Report explores the lasting impact of such trauma ā and what it means to speak out about it.
Every family has secrets. I spent the past few years reporting about racial violence in Sikeston, Missouri. Interviewing Black families there helped me uncover my family's traumatic past, too.
Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was established to exclusively admit Black patients during a time when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the same health care facilities as white patients. Its closure underscores how hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. fell casualty to social progress.
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