A young woman committed at psychiatric hospital in a flood zone said the river feels like a moat trapping her inside.
“My first feeling is doom,” Aurora said, watching a simulation of the river rising. The facility is one of many.
By @hackwriter.bsky.social et al
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Doctors with troubled pasts are performing cosmetic surgeries. Some injured patients say they wish they had tried harder to check the backgrounds of doctors and clinics they trusted, but those records are hard to find.
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🚨 "Sick to my stomach."
That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines.
My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org
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Reporters uncovered major safety lapses at a for-profit rehab chain with little federal oversight. See how they did it + tips for your own reporting: healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/08...
My latest, for @latimes.com & @kffhealthnews.org: Social Security has a new AI bot. It got rushed out. Customers don't like its glitches.
How the agency's technology push might get sidetracked: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
“All of us at CDC train for this moment, a massive outbreak. All this training and then we weren’t allowed to do anything.”
Just one of the quotes/email excerpts from @amymaxmen.bsky.social investigation of CDC’s response to the Texas measles outbreak kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
And why does website show it’s under renovation? (And has been that way for awhile per Wayback) www.steamboatnatchez.com/riverboat-ci...
Millions of rural Americans live in counties with doctor shortages and where high-speed internet connections aren’t adequate to access advanced telehealth services.
My latest @kffhealthnews.org video with @sjtribble-reports.bsky.social: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
One of the 100K+ people who lost their health insurance when Missouri slashed Medicaid in 2005 was a woman working a $6.70/hour McDonald’s job.
Her ~$300/week pay put her over the stricter income limits despite supporting 3 kids.
Now, congressional GOP are considering cuts that could be bigger...
Many processed foods are made with chemicals linked to health concerns. To a great extent, the FDA allows food companies to determine whether their ingredients and additives are safe.
What could go wrong?
📹 w/ @oonazenda.bsky.social for @kffhealthnews.org:
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My latest, for @kffhealthnews.org and @cbsnews.com: Social Security is cracking.
It's declaring people wrongly dead. Beneficiaries and lawyers say records are getting misplaced. Checks are getting sent to the wrong address.
The agency is getting worse, they think, at sending money to people:
🚨 The NIH’s sweeping cuts of research grants are inflicting pain almost universally across the U.S., @raelnb.bsky.social and I found.
At least 43% of organizations that had grants terminated are public universities.
About 40% are in states Trump won in November.
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Lack of infrastructure investment will only make rural health care worse.
Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care kffhealthnews.org/MjAxMDA1Ng by @sjtribble-reports.bsky.social @hackwriter.bsky.social @caressejbskysocial.bsky.social via @kffhealthnews.org @investigatetv.com
"The man responsible for a $1.3 billion fraud scheme. A doctor who gave unnecessary eye injections. A CEO who made a fortune on pain+pee. President Trump claims he will stop health care fraudsters. In his first term, he let these fraudsters go" — Brett Kelman on X
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In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies.
I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.
My latest for @kffhealthnews.org: how a band of lovers of vitamins, peptides, and other supplements took over HHS -- and how they're vibing with their base: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst and poor internet connections mean little or no access to telehealth services.
📝: @sjtribble-reports.bsky.social + @hackwriter.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Register for tomorrow's in-depth look at the new groundbreaking national database on #OpioidSettlement spending, featuring @kffhealthnews.bsky.social Sr Correspondent @aneripattani.bsky.social and @shatterproofhq.bsky.social VP of State Policy Kristen Pendergrass: kff-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
