Mar 06 No affordable health insurance options? This could happen. By Tom Murphy and Meghan Hoyer, Associated Press According to an analysis by the Associated Press and the health care firm Avalere Health, more than 1,000 counties are down to their last insurance carrier. Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch 3:28 Flint water cost to rise as state ends subsidy By PBS News Hour In Flint, Michigan, residents still must use a filter to drink tap water, but the cost of that water will soon increase. The state is ending a subsidy program that reduced customers’ water bills after Flint's water was contaminated with… Continue watching
Mar 05 Spike in syphilis among newborns driven by broader epidemic By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News The Central Valley — a vast agricultural and mostly low-income swath of California — has seen an unprecedented spike in congenital syphilis over the last few years. Continue reading
Mar 04 Step inside a wired nursery: Lots of tech — and not much evidence it's helpful By Megan Thielking, STAT A flurry of high-tech baby products has hit the market in recent months, but experts say there hasn’t been thorough research on many of those products and warn that they can sometimes do more harm than good. Continue reading
Mar 03 Why this Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims By Nadia Sussman, STAT In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?… Continue reading
Mar 02 How will the Trump administration change the war on opioids? By Laura Santhanam With an historic rise in fatal drug overdoses nationwide and a new president in the White House, the future is uncertain for programs trying to combat a growing public health crisis: opioid addiction. Continue reading
Mar 02 How this Vermont experiment improves patient health at lower cost By Michael Ollove, Stateline This tiny state, with a population more rural and less diverse than the country as a whole, is embarking on an experiment that could transform the delivery of health care nationwide. Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch 7:41 Baltimore turns to a life-saving opioid overdose antidote, but it's no cure for the crisis By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson With overdose deaths from opioids on the rise across the country, Baltimore has begun training everyday citizens to use a life-saving antidote as one tool to combat the crisis, and the approach is catching on. But while many more states… Continue watching
Mar 01 Skin cancer from tanning beds costs U.S. $343 million per year By Megan Thielking, STAT Indoor tanning has long been tied to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the US. Continue reading
Feb 28 AP fact check: Trump's overly downbeat view of health law By Associated Press President Donald Trump said in his speech to Congress that he's work with lawmakers to save the U.S. from "this imploding Obamacare disaster." Here's how that claim stacks up with the facts. Continue reading