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Dr. Linath Lim came to the U.S. as a refugee after slaving at work camps under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Even with little English or education when she arrived, Lim put herself through college and medical school. As an internal medicine doctor in California鈥檚 Central Valley, she treated farmworkers and other Cambodian refugees.
Same building. Same procedure. Same doctor. But now you鈥檙e charged a hospital facility fee. For one Ohio Medicare patient, the copay for a shot that used to cost her about $30 went up to more than $300.
One group of maternal health experts in 2016 urged doctors to give all women heparin shots after C-sections, barring specific medical risks for individual patients. But many physicians disagree, questioning whether wide use of the drug is effective, worth the cost and safe, since it carries the risk of bleeding.
The numbers of people wearing these monitors are soaring as prices have fallen and device-makers promote them to doctors and patients. But few studies show the devices lead to better outcomes for the nearly 25 million Americans with Type 2 diabetes who don鈥檛 inject insulin to regulate their blood sugar.
Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated from medical school during the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor for her first months working at a hospital in Fresno, California, as she grapples with isolation, anti-mask rallies and an overwhelming number of deaths.
Hospitals dealing with staff shortages during the current covid surge are unable to tap into one valuable resource: foreign-trained doctors, nurses and other health workers, many with experience treating infectious diseases. Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Nevada are the only states to have eased credentialing requirements during the pandemic.
Doctors say some patients, and even medical staff members, don鈥檛 know where to go to be vaccinated against covid-19.
A growing body of research shows that overuse and misuse of antibiotics in children鈥檚 hospitals is helping fuel superbugs, which typically strike frail seniors but are increasingly infecting kids. And the pandemic is making things worse.
The National Academy of Sciences cites journalists鈥 鈥淟ost on the Frontline鈥 project in a push to expand federal tracking of worker fatalities.
At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.
Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemic鈥檚 financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.
Furious over Republicans鈥 handling of the pandemic, Wisconsin health care workers are speaking out against the president 鈥 and running for office.
Science is becoming increasingly politicized, so how will it fare on the campaign trail 鈥 in 2020 and beyond?
The volume of virtual medical appointments has exploded during the pandemic as patients and doctors have sought to avoid infection through in-person visits.
COVID-19 infections and quarantines are pulling health professionals off the front lines, exacerbating staffing woes that existed in large, rural states well before the pandemic.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has increased access to coronavirus testing in the Philadelphia region, testing more than 10,000 people. The group鈥檚 mobile unit and pop-up testing sites also offer patients an opportunity to connect with African American health care providers.
Two types of licensed physicians exist in this country 鈥 M.D.s and D.O.s. Here鈥檚 what you need to know about the differences.
A 28-year-old Texas doctor tested positive in early July and died in September 鈥 one of a dozen young health workers nationwide whose deaths from the coronavirus have been profiled by KHN and The Guardian as part of the "Lost on the Frontline" project.
The president鈥檚 doctors have used HIPAA 鈥 the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 鈥 as a shield to avoid questions about the president鈥檚 COVID-19 diagnosis.
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