PrEP, a key HIV prevention tool, isn’t reaching black women
Sam Whitehead | (TNS) Kaiser Health News Alexis Perkins thought her OB-GYN’s office in Atlanta would be just the place...
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Insurers often shortchange mental health care coverage, despite a federal law
If you or someone you know is in need of help, dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for...
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California cracks down on ‘forever chemicals,’ or PFAS, found in food packaging
California Attorney General Rob Bonta hosted a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at Los Angeles State Historic Park, to...
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Why Is Finding COVID Shots For Young Children Still So Hard?
In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the next round of COVID shots for everyone 6 months...
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Bipolar disorder is little researched, but doctors at Johns Hopkins aim to change that
Angela Roberts | Baltimore Sun Two months before Charita Cole Brown was supposed to graduate from college — and about two years...
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Rare ‘flesh-eating’ bacterium spreads north as oceans warm
Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times | Kaiser Health News (TNS) Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she...
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California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis; is first state to do so
SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis...
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Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal with 85,000 Health Care Workers
About 85,000 unionized health care workers in several states, including more than 28,000 in California, have reached a tentative agreement...
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Thousands got Exactech knee or hip replacements. Then, patients say, the parts began to fail
Fred Schulte, KFF Health News | KFF Health News (TNS) Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right...
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Feds rein in use of predictive software that limits care for Medicare Advantage patients
Susan Jaffe | KFF Health News (TNS) Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in...
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