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Custom Caskets for Kids Look Like Something You ‘Would See in a Child’s Room’
Calyia Stringer had a smile on her face the day she posed for a photo with a yellow flower in her hand. The toddler beamed with pride as she showed off the bloom before handing it to her godmother, Jatoria Foster.
“She was so…
Journalists Explore Affordability of Mental Health Care and Abortion Laws’ Effect on Miscarriages
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Watch: Going Beyond the Script of ‘The G Word’ and How Government Responds to Disease (Or Not)
KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal joined comedian Adam Conover to discuss his new Netflix series, “The G Word With Adam Conover,” created in partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions. In the hybrid…
High-Tech’s Business Model Hasn’t Worked for the Cue Covid Test
“I’ve got this,” coos Gal Gadot in Cue Health’s Super Bowl TV commercial. Cue hired the “Wonder Woman” actress to be the voice of the company’s new high-tech covid-19 testing device. The ad pushes the notion that the at-home covid…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Waking Up to Baby Formula Shortage
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The federal government finally addressed the infant formula…
This Rural, Red Southern County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore.
MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. — At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place.
A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much of the past year has…
The Private Sector Steps In to Protect Online Health Privacy, but Critics Say It Can’t Be Trusted
Most people have at least a vague sense that someone somewhere is doing mischief with the data footprints created by their online activities: Maybe their use of an app is allowing that company to build a profile of their habits,…
How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘Covid-Proof’ Your Home
For two years, you beat the odds. You masked, kept your distance, got your shots.
Now, despite those efforts, you, your child, or someone else in your home has come down with covid-19. And the last thing you want is for the…
New Covered California Leader Urges Renewal of Enhanced Federal Aid for Health Premiums
Bernard J. Wolfson
When she was Pennsylvania’s insurance commissioner, Jessica Altman, the appointee of a Democratic governor, often bumped against the political limits of health care policy in a state where Republicans controlled the…
‘That’s Just Part of Aging’: Long Covid Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors
Judith Graham
Nearly 18 months after getting covid-19 and spending weeks in the hospital, Terry Bell struggles with hanging up his shirts and pants after doing the laundry.
Lifting his clothes, raising his arms,…