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Paid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish

National
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

National
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.

National
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...

Rapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest

National
Written By: Cecilia Nowell (NATIONAL) From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross the sprawling Navajo Nation...

Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks

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Written By: Fred Clasen-Kelly (NATIONAL) The Social Security Administration’s new chief is promising to overhaul the agency’s system of clawing back billions of dollars it claims was...

A New $16,000 Postpartum Depression Drug Is Here. How Will Insurers Handle It?

National
Written By: April Dembosky, KQED (NATIONAL) A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the market in December, promising an accessible and fast-acting medication...

With Medical Debt Burdening Millions, a Financial Regulator Steps In to Help

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Written By: Noam Levey (NATIONAL) When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority:...

Pregnancy Care Was Always Lacking in Jails. It Could Get Worse.

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Written By: Renuka Rayasam (NATIONAL) It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier’s door and told her that someone anonymously requested a welfare...

‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic Crashes Ashore, Propelled by Fentanyl and Meth

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Written By: Colleen DeGuzman (NATIONAL) The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the opioid epidemic’s “fourth wave,” which is not only placing drug users at greater risk...