Browsing Category
News
‘Science Friday’ and KHN: Examining Medicine’s Definition of Death Informs…
There is a widespread consensus in medicine on the definition of death, and those standards have been codified…
‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope…
Economic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish…
Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire
For the past decade, Precious McCowan’s life has revolved around organ transplants. She’s a doctoral candidate studying…
Watch: The Mysterious Death of a Congressman’s Wife
KHN senior correspondent Samantha Young appeared on CBS News to discuss her exclusive coverage of the death of Lori…
Meet Mary Wakefield, the Nurse Administrator Tasked With Revamping the CDC
Sam Whitehead
It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of…
‘He Stood His Ground’: California State Senator Will Leave Office as…
Angela Hart
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker who rose to national prominence by muscling through some of the…
In the Rush to Curtail Abortion, States Adopt a Jumbled Stew of Definitions…
As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced…
Journalists Discuss the Nation’s Suicide Prevention Hotline, Abortion, and…
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on…
Hospitals Cut Jobs and Services as Rising Costs Strain Budgets
Bozeman Health had a problem, one that officials at the health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana…
Unraveling the Interplay of Omicron, Reinfections, and Long Covid
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News
The latest covid-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants,…