2024

Los titulares explotaron después que el Departamento de Agricultura confirmara que el virus de la gripe aviar H5N1 ha infectado a vacas lecheras en todo el país. Las pruebas han detectado el virus en el ganado en nueve estados,…

KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29. Click here to hear Young on KCBS Read Young’s “AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips…

Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have detected the virus among cattle in nine states, mainly in Texas and New Mexico,…

Since becoming a father a few months ago, I’ve been nursing a grudge against something tiny, seemingly inconsequential, and often discarded: instructional manuals. Parenthood requires a lot of gadgetry to maintain a kid’s health…

Marisol Pantoja Toribio found a lump in her breast in early January. Uninsured and living in California without legal status and without her family, the usually happy-go-lucky 43-year-old quickly realized how limited her options…

Oregon has started providing air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to help some of its Medicaid recipients cope with soaring heat, smoky skies and other dangers of climate change. It’s a first-in-the-nation experiment…

Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact “Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an April 21 post on X The National Institutes of Health is the federal government’s main agency for…

La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha emitido un informe que transforma la manera en que el mundo comprende infecciones respiratorias como covid-19, la gripe y el sarampión. Motivada por graves errores durante la…

The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like covid-19, influenza, and measles. Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the WHO convened about 50…

Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers, and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat,…