Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens as Senator Demands FTC Investigation
Authorities seized 1.7 million fake masks in New York and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell called for a national probe.
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Health Workers and Hospitals Grapple With Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks
Masks imitating the real thing are flooding U.S. ports, and authorities can hardly keep pace.
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Gene Screenings Hold Disease Clues, but Unexplained Anomalies Often Raise Fears
Multiple-gene panel tests are frequently offered to patients at risk for diseases such as cancer that can assess more than 80 genes. But in screening a wide variety of genes, doctors might see a variant that hasn鈥檛 yet been deciphered and be unable to explain its significance, leaving patients with concerns and no answers.
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Food Guidelines Change but Fail to Take Cultures Into Account
For decades, the federal government has tried to guide our eating habits. They once again revised recommendations, but they didn鈥檛 incorporate ethnic and cultural differences of the American diet. Here鈥檚 why.
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Journalists Stay on Top of Rocky Vaccine Rollout
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.
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If This Self-Sufficient Hospital Cannot Stand Alone, Can Any Public Hospital Survive?
New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., makes money and does not require taxpayer subsidies. But the county is selling the public hospital because officials say it needs more capital to compete. Civic leaders say the change will lead to higher health care costs.
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Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Even invoking the widely heralded Defense Production Act to pressure drugmakers wouldn鈥檛 overcome vast obstacles.
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Patients Fend for Themselves to Access Highly Touted Covid Antibody Treatments
Months after President Donald Trump credited monoclonal antibody therapy for his quick recovery from covid-19, only a trickle of the product has found its way into regular people. While hundreds of thousands of vials sit unused, sick patients who might benefit from early treatment have been left on their own to vie for access.
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California Is Overriding Its Limits on Nurse Workloads as Covid Surges
As covid patients flood California emergency rooms, hospitals are increasingly desperate to find enough staffers to care for them all. But some nurses worry hospitals will use the pandemic as an excuse to permanently roll back their hard-won nurse-patient ratios.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: On Capitol Hill, Actions Have Consequences
Several large business groups, including health industry organizations, are cutting off contributions to Republicans who voted against the certification of Joe Biden鈥檚 election even after riots shut down the Capitol on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, the outgoing Trump administration not only approved a Medicaid block grant for Tennessee, but also made it difficult for the incoming Biden administration to undo. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Victoria Knight about the latest KHN-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 episode.
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Feeling Left Out: Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for Vaccine
Doctors say some patients, and even medical staff members, don鈥檛 know where to go to be vaccinated against covid-19.
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An Urban Hospital on the Brink Vs. the Officials Sworn to Save It
The wealthy corporation that owns Chicago鈥檚 Mercy Hospital says it must close the hospital because it鈥檚 losing money. A government board says no. The corporation still has the upper hand.
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Health Workers Unions See Surge in Interest Amid Covid
Many front-line health workers who have faced a perpetual lack of PPE and inconsistent safety measures believe the government and their employers have failed to protect them from covid-19.
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鈥楢n Arm And a Leg鈥: How a Former Health Care Executive Became a Health Care Whistleblower
Former health care executive Wendell Potter said, 鈥淲hat I used to do for a living was mislead people into thinking that we had the best health care system in the world.鈥 Now, Potter is a health care whistleblower and spent part of 2020 publishing high-profile apologies for the work he used to do.
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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?
More than two dozen people who have received the new covid vaccines in U.S. hospitals and health centers suffered anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction. While such severe reactions are rare, experts warn that the drugstores and drive-thru clinics considered integral to the vaccine rollout must be prepared.
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In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest Covid Bottleneck
The oxygen delivery infrastructure is crumbling under pressure in Los Angeles and other covid hot spots, jeopardizing patients鈥 access to precious air and limiting hospital turnover.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: A Look Back at 2020 鈥 What We Learned and Where We鈥檙e Headed
T.K. Dutes 鈥 a former nurse who is now a radio host and podcast-maker 鈥 interviewed 鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥 host Dan Weissmann about what he learned in 2020, and what鈥檚 ahead for the show.
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Covid ‘Decimated Our Staff鈥 as the Pandemic Ravages Health Workers of Color
Covid-19 has taken an outsize toll on Black and Hispanic Americans 鈥 and those disparities extend to medical workers.
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Video: The Healthy Nurse Who Died at 40 on the Covid Front Lines: ‘She Was the Best Mom I Ever Had’
Yolanda Coar was 40 when she died of COVID-19 in August 2020 in Augusta, Georgia. She was also a nurse manager, and one of nearly 3,000 frontline workers who have died in the U.S. fighting this virus, according to an exclusive investigation by The Guardian and KHN.
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As the Terror of COVID Struck, Health Care Workers Struggled to Survive. Thousands Lost the Fight.
At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.
By Christina Jewett and Robert Lewis