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The Rise and Risks of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution
The afternoon’s compelling chronicle. Recent media reports have pointed out deepening environmental and health concerns caused by plastic and microplastic pollution. Robert Hale, a professor in the Department of Aquatic Health at the…
Readers and Tweeters Sound Alarm Over Nurse’s Homicide Trial
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Nursing on Trial
It’s about time that nurses are held accountable for their…
It’s Not Just Physicians and Nurses. Veterinarians Are Burning Out, Too.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
At the park near Duboce Triangle in San Francisco, 5 p.m. is canine happy hour. About 40 dogs run…
How the Test-to-Treat Pillar of the US Covid Strategy Is Failing Patients
Hannah Recht
The federal “test-to-treat” program, announced in March, is meant to reduce covid hospitalizations and deaths by quickly getting antiviral pills to people who test positive. But even as cases rise again, many Americans don’t…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: News You Might Have Missed
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It’s been extra busy on the health policy beat lately, so a…
A Travel Nurse Leaves Fears of Hospital Drug Tampering Across Three States
Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating vials and syringes of opioid painkillers in two hospitals, then returning the vials to medication…
A Year In, Montana’s Rolled-Back Public Health Powers Leave Some Areas in Limbo
A year after a new Montana law stripped local health boards of their rulemaking authority, confusion and power struggles are creating a patchwork oversight system that may change how public health is administered long after the…
How a Former Catholic Priest Is Navigating a California Medicaid Plan Through Big Changes
Bernard J. Wolfson
ORANGE, Calif. — For Michael Hunn, the path from priesthood to health care was seamless.
Hunn, a native of St. Louis, counseled hospitalized patients as a Catholic priest in the 1980s before leaving the…
Persistent Problem: High C-Section Rates Plague the South
Lauren Sausser
All along, Julia Maeda knew she wanted to have her baby naturally. For her, that meant in a hospital, vaginally, without an epidural for pain relief.
This was her first pregnancy. And although she is a nurse,…
Biden Administration Announces Boost for Rural Health Care in Midterm Election Push
Katheryn Houghton
As the midterm election season ramps up, the Biden administration wants rural Americans to know it’ll be spending a lot of money to improve health care in rural areas.
It has tasked Agriculture Secretary…