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Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned

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Written By: Aaron Bolton, MTPR (NATIONAL) Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Read this...

1st Biden-Trump Debate of 2024: What They Got Wrong, and Right

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Written By: KFF Health News and PolitiFact staffs (NATIONAL) President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees,...

Older Women Are Different Than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied.

National
Written By: Judith Graham (NATIONAL) Medical research has shortchanged women for decades. This is particularly true of older women, leaving physicians without critically important...

Many Young Adults Who Began Vaping as Teens Can’t Shake the Habit

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Written By: John Daley, Colorado Public Radio (NATIONAL) G Kumar’s vaping addiction peaked in college at the University of Colorado, when flavored, disposable vapes were taking...

Tribal Nations Invest Opioid Settlement Funds in Traditional Healing To Treat Addiction

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Written By: Aneri Pattani and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez (NATIONAL) Outside the Mi’kmaq Nation’s health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black...

Federal Panel Prescribes New Mental Health Strategy To Curb Maternal Deaths

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Written By: Cheryl Platzman Weinstock For help, call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262) or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline...

Paid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish

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Written By: Zach Dyer (NATIONAL) Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of...

Rural Jails Turn to Community Health Workers To Help the Newly Released Succeed

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Written By: Lillian Mongeau Hughes (NATIONAL) Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just...

Native Americans Have Shorter Life Spans. Better Health Care Isn’t the Only Answer.

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Written By: Arielle Zionts (HISLE, S.D.) Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Read this story on KFF Health...

End of Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Households Threatens Telehealth Access

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Written By: Sarah Jane Tribble (NATIONAL) For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. Read this story on KFF Health News...