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Quarantine and Tracing Rules Are All Over the Map for Students
By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred At this point in the pandemic, most parents are familiar with “covid notification” letters. But the letters’ instruction on whether your kid must quarantine or not varies...
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Patients’ Perilous Months-Long Waiting for Medicaid Coverage Is a Sign of...
By Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance coverage. But...
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Never-Ending Costs: When Resolved Medical Bills Keep Popping Up
By Aneri Pattani Every now and then, Suzanne Rybak and her husband, Jim, receive pieces of mail addressed to their deceased son, Jameson. Typically, it’s junk mail that requires little thought,...
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As Overdoses Soar, More States Decriminalize Fentanyl Testing Strips
By Andy Miller With time running out in the 2022 legislative session, Georgia lawmakers took up a bill to regulate raw milk. An amendment suddenly got tacked onto the House version of the bill,...
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After Wiping Out $6.7 Billion in Medical Debt, This Nonprofit Is Just Getting...
By Yuki Noguchi, NPR News Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas....
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Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Now her kidney function is failing again, and she’s facing the possibility of needing a third transplant. But the process of finding that lifesaving organ is...
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Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles...
By Samantha Young and Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine On Nov. 2, 2021, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s reelection campaign received 10 separate $10,000 contributions from what appeared to be unrelated...
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Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Start With Research
By Melba Newsome He was 55 years old and a decades-long smoker. So the doctor recommended that Buff schedule time on a 35-foot-long bus operated by the Levine Cancer Institute that would roll through...
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Her Apartment Might Have Put Her Son’s Health at Risk
By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly ATLANTA — When Louana Joseph’s son had a seizure because of an upper respiratory infection in July, she abandoned the apartment her family had called home for...
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Mass Shootings Reopen the Debate Over Whether Crime Scene Photos Prompt...
By Lauren Sausser McCLELLANVILLE, S.C. — John Lites was one of the first police officers to respond to a 911 call from Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina,...
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Public Health Agencies Try To Restore Trust as They Fight Misinformation
By Lauren Sausser OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19...
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Hospitals’ Use of Volunteer Staff Runs Risk of Skirting Labor Laws, Experts Say
By Lauren Sausser MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Most of the 30 volunteers who work at the 130-bed, for-profit East Cooper Medical Center spend their days assisting surgical patients — the scope of their...
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Exclusive Data: Fueled by Teacher Shortages, ‘Zoom-In-A-Room’ Makes a Comeback
By Linda Jacobson, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Last fall,...
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Great Falls Reimagines Its Identity Through Nature-Based Tourism
By Ben Speggen, Our Towns With community partnerships and resident input, the small South Carolina town is writing its next chapter. On a warm Wednesday morning in August, Mike Vaughn leads us into a...
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Feds Try to Head Off Growing Problem of Overdoses Among Expectant Mothers
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and Katheryn Houghton LAS VEGAS — When Andria Peterson began working as a clinical pharmacist in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units at St. Rose Dominican...
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Adult Children Discuss the Trials of Caring for Their Aging Parents
By Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau “It is emotionally and physically draining.” Natasha Lazartes 39, Brooklyn, New YorkTherapist I am 39 years old. I had to care for my father, who...
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How the Thyroid Gland Mystifies Doctors and Patients
By Oona Tempest and Andy Miller About 25 years ago, Andy Miller learned he had hypothyroidism, a condition that afflicts millions of other Americans. Curious about how this condition was affecting...
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16 Fascinating & Fun Facts About Venus Flytraps: The Green Predators Among Us
Imagine a world where the usual roles of hunter and hunted are turned on their head, where the predator doesn’t stalk through the underbrush or soar through the skies, but instead, lies in wait, rooted...
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More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.
By Lauren Sausser When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow. She was 36 at the time and working...
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City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care...
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has...
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