Journalists Assess Risks of Tick Bites, Wildfire Smoke, Rising Health Costs
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Altercations Between Residents in Dementia Care Is a Frequent Danger
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To Afford Aging in Place, Older Adults Turn to 鈥楪olden Girls鈥 Housing
A growing network of home-sharing programs is helping people find compatible housemates. And demand is rising, driven by housing shortages, rising rents, and sales prices that affect both the old and the young.
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Watch: GOP Senator Says Trump鈥檚 Tariffs Could Mean Safer Drugs 鈥 For a Price
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana chairs the Senate鈥檚 health committee. In an interview with 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner, he discusses the drug supply, his proposal to defray out-of-pocket costs, and his controversial vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
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鈥楾he Child Is Terrified鈥: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.
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A Shrinking Safety Net
A new report finds that participation in the federal food stamp program is down far more than was predicted when the Republican-led Congress approved cuts in 2025. That portends a similar fate for Medicaid, as states ready comparable changes. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss the news. Also, as part of the 鈥淗ow Would You Fix It?鈥 series, Rovner interviews GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
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POSTCARD FROM GEORGIA
Public Health Improvements Stall Amid Trump鈥檚 DEI Crackdown
A year after the Environmental Protection Agency stripped grant money from dozens of communities nationwide during Trump鈥檚 DEI crackdown, a small Georgia city is struggling to address environmental health concerns.
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A Death Revives Concerns About Police Brutality Six Years After National Reckoning
In a church in rural Missouri, mourners lined up to say goodbye to Lloyd Gilmore, a 44-year-old Black father who died in police custody last month. His death sparked protests in a city with a long history of racial violence, even as the national conversation about police brutality has waned. Six years after worldwide calls for change, what鈥檚 happened to the movement?
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American Scientists See Prosecutions as Part of Federal Campaign Against Them
Federal officials charged two virologists they stopped en route from an African disease outbreak with violating import rules. But scientists tell 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News the inactivated samples they carried posed no threat to the public, and they characterize the arrests as part of a government harassment campaign.
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Trump鈥檚 Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records
The Office of Personnel Management said it will 鈥減seudonymize鈥 medical records it collects on more than 8 million people 鈥 federal workers and retirees, and their family members. Democrats and employee unions say the agency鈥檚 move is an overreach.
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Leadership Vacuum: Agencies in New York and Beyond Pass the Buck on Opioid Cash Oversight
The opioid settlements are a multibillion-dollar windfall with only loose spending suggestions rather than strict requirements. Some people directly affected by the crisis want stronger guardrails. But New York state鈥檚 experience highlights the challenge in finding a fiscal watchdog.
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A Deloitte-Run System Denied Medicaid Benefits for Michigan鈥檚 Disabled. Now Trump鈥檚 Law Piles On.
Complex computer systems that decide whether people, including the disabled, get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now changes to comply with Trump鈥檚 signature tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.
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Severely Ill Prisoners Granted Early Release Are Left Stuck Behind Bars
Prisoners with severe medical conditions can be granted compassionate release, but without a long-term care facility willing to accept them, many continue to wait in prison as their conditions worsen.
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Violence Repeatedly Erupts at Dementia Care Facilities Despite Warnings, Inspections Show
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities can be fertile ground for violence between residents with dementia, including fatal assaults. A 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News examination of health reports and court records shows how warning signs are missed and safeguards fall short.
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Doctors 鈥楥ringe鈥 at Possibility of Documenting Which Medicaid Enrollees Too Sick To Work
Final regulations on Medicaid work requirements say enrollees must regularly obtain documentation 鈥 possibly from medical professionals 鈥 to prove that they鈥檙e too sick to work. Doctors say the rules put them in a tough spot.
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Pregnant Woman鈥檚 Roadside Death Triggers Push To Reopen Mississippi Delta Hospital
The deaths of Harmony Ball-Stribling and her unborn daughter five years ago have galvanized local leaders determined to reopen a Mississippi Delta hospital. But once a rural community loses a hospital, bringing it back can be nearly impossible.
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Journalists Dig Into HHS’ Covid Injury List, ACA Sign-Ups, and Telehealth
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Big Employers Increasingly in Hot Seat as Medicaid Work Requirements Loom聽
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Watch: 鈥楻obust鈥 Primary Care, Transparency Top Employers鈥 Reform Wish List
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner interviews Elizabeth Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, about systemic healthcare changes backed by large employers, which cover millions of Americans.
