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Washington has upped efforts to get naloxone into communities. Is it enough?

June 4, 2023, 12:46pm Health

As nationwide rates of fentanyl overdoses have grown into a public health crisis, experts have pointed to naloxone as a way to save lives. But years after Washington doubled down… Read story

Many people living in the ‘Diabetes Belt’ are plagued with medical debt

June 4, 2023, 6:05am Health

Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to… Read story

As Medicaid purge begins, ‘staggering numbers’ of Americans lose coverage

June 5, 2023, 8:07am Health

More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork. Read story

Brittany Diekneit holds her daughter, Milani Byrne, 2, at Diekneit's mother's home in Denver on May 5, 2023. Diekneit is facing a charge of knowingly/recklessly killing her newborn baby after co-sleeping.

Charges against Colorado parents in co-sleeping death of 2-day-old baby draw condemnation from pregnancy justice groups

Brittany Diekneit holds her daughter, Milani Byrne, 2, at Diekneit's mother's home in Denver on May 5, 2023. Diekneit is facing a charge of knowingly/recklessly killing her newborn baby after co-sleeping.

June 4, 2023, 6:00am Health

The criminal case of an Aurora, Colorado, couple charged in the co-sleeping death of their 2-day-old baby has spurred outcry from state reproductive justice groups who describe the prosecution as part of a growing trend across the country in which pregnant and postpartum people are facing more criminalization. Read story

Health insurance denials have become another predictable, miserable part of the patient experience.

Health insurance claim denials rising with strange rationales

Health insurance denials have become another predictable, miserable part of the patient experience.

June 3, 2023, 6:00am Health

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be because companies… Read story

Maker of anti-addiction drug Suboxone reaches $102.5 million settlement over antitrust claims

June 2, 2023, 2:00pm Health

The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices, it announced Friday. Read story

A rapid increase in the number of backyard chicken pens in cities and suburbs across the country has brought with it a record number of salmonella illnesses that have public health officials concerned. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says treating chickens like pets contributes to the problem.

Increasing salmonella cases in Washington linked to backyard poultry

A rapid increase in the number of backyard chicken pens in cities and suburbs across the country has brought with it a record number of salmonella illnesses that have public health officials concerned. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says treating chickens like pets contributes to the problem.

June 2, 2023, 7:46am Health

Health officials urge people to take precautions when handling backyard poultry after 13 cases of salmonella in Washington. Read story

Tacoma woman refusing tuberculosis treatment arrested

June 1, 2023, 6:57pm Health

A Tacoma woman who refused treatment for tuberculosis for more than a year, was arrested Thursday by Pierce County deputies to be isolated and treated in jail. Read story

FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. U.S. births were flat in 2022, as the nation continues to see fewer babies born than before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

U.S. births in 2022 didn’t return to pre-pandemic levels

FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. U.S. births were flat in 2022, as the nation continues to see fewer babies born than before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

June 1, 2023, 3:28pm Health

U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Read story

This image provided by Health Canada shows the final wording of six separate warnings that will be printed directly on individual cigarettes as Canada becomes the first in the world to take that step aimed at helping people quit the habit. The regulations take effect Aug. 1 and will be phased in. King-size cigarettes will be the first to feature the warnings and will be sold in stores by the end of July 2024, followed by regular-size cigarettes, and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes by the end of April 2025.

In Canada, each cigarette will get a warning label: ‘poison in every puff’

This image provided by Health Canada shows the final wording of six separate warnings that will be printed directly on individual cigarettes as Canada becomes the first in the world to take that step aimed at helping people quit the habit. The regulations take effect Aug. 1 and will be phased in. King-size cigarettes will be the first to feature the warnings and will be sold in stores by the end of July 2024, followed by regular-size cigarettes, and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes by the end of April 2025.

June 1, 2023, 7:46am Health

Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes. Read story