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California officials announced a ban on chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide that has been linked to lower IQs, lower birth weights and other developmental issues in children, even as the federal government fights to protect it.
More Republicans, at the statehouse level, are saying research and results support their endorsement of a once-controversial plan to limit disease among drug users.
A study looked at who gets Suboxone prescriptions and found that whites are almost 35 times more likely to get the addiction treatment than African Americans.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom鈥檚 proposal to provide health coverage to unauthorized immigrants ages 19 to 25 would siphon money that four counties currently use for public health efforts such as battling contagious diseases.
In the West and Midwest, 70% of local law enforcement says meth is the bigger threat. It's also a more difficult addiction to treat.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
A growing mental health crisis among children is exacerbated by a national shortage of child psychiatrists and therapists. It鈥檚 either difficult to get, or to afford, an appointment for your child. Here鈥檚 some advice that might help.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Lack of access means that people with physical and cognitive disabilities have a heavier burden of dental disease.
As dockless electric scooters run roughshod through cities nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues its first assessment on injuries and safety. It studied the injuries linked to riding e-scooters in Austin, Texas, from September through November. More than 200 people were hurt in scooter crashes and mishaps 鈥 with nearly half suffering head injuries.
He didn鈥檛 overstate the relationship between hazardous waste sites and birth defects and autism.
In California, people who are black or Latino are more than twice as likely as whites to undergo amputations related to diabetes, a Kaiser Health News analysis found. The pattern is not unique to California.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
A survey of more than 96,000 students finds that 7.2% reported 鈥渃linically significant鈥 symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.
The pesticide chlorpyrifos has been linked to developmental problems in children. Some state and federal lawmakers want the chemical banned, but federal regulators are fighting to keep it on the market.
After dozens of health care workers were charged with illegally prescribing opioids in Appalachia, local health agencies are trying to make sure chronic pain patients don't fall through the cracks.
Deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner鈥檚 data. Experts say drug and alcohol abuse are significant factors.
Asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, housed in migrant shelters in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, are often sick and exhausted from their long journeys. Volunteer health workers from Southern California recently sent a mobile clinic to one of those shelters and spent a day tending to its inhabitants.
Lauren Weber, one of Kaiser Health News鈥 new Midwest correspondents, joined St. Louis Public Radio reporter Jeremy Goodwin on 鈥淪t. Louis on the Air鈥 Friday to discuss how syphilis is making inroads into rural counties across the Midwest and West.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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