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Inside the Growing Crisis of Primary Care
In eighth grade, Mackenzee Thompson, DO, received a school assignment with a simple prompt: what do you want to be when you grow up? The more she read about medicine, the more intrigued she became. “I knew I liked science, and I liked learning, and I liked people,” Thompson recalled in a recent interview, “and I always wanted to do something that would serve my community.” She’d grown up in Washington, Oklahoma—population 673.
Inside RFK Jr.’s ‘Backdoor’ Approach to Stop Vaccines
How a Reagan-era program to promote vaccine production could play a role in Kennedy’s crusade against the medications On Sept. 9, 2025, the two sides faced off. The setting — a U.S. Senate hearing — was a bit of an unusual arena for this kind of showdown. But it was filled with dueling claims, raised voices, and loosely veiled rancor nonetheless.
RFK Jrs. „Hintertür“-Strategie gegen Impfstoffe
Am 9. September 2025 standen sich die beiden Seiten gegenüber. Der Schauplatz – eine Anhörung im US-Senat – war für diese Art von Showdown ein eher ungewöhnlicher Rahmen. Doch es fehlte trotzdem nicht an widerstreitenden Behauptungen, erhobenen Stimmen und kaum verhohlener Feindseligkeit.
Inside RFK’s Jr.’s ‘Backdoor’ Approach to Stop Vaccines Original
On Sept. 9, 2025, the two sides faced off. The setting — a U.S. Senate hearing — was a bit of an unusual arena for this kind of showdown. But it was filled with dueling claims, raised voices, and loosely veiled rancor nonetheless.
Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback Original
This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center and the United Nations Foundation. E leven days after the patient developed a fever and eight days after his legs went limp, a very specific alarm bell went off. It was July 2022 in upstate New York. The case had been mysterious: The young man had no history of immune problems, nor any other suspicious medical problems. His symptoms had transformed from a stomach bug to a bad stomach bug to something that looked a lot like meningitis.
Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback
Florida 8 hours ago Kindergarten vaccine exemptions rose in Florida: CDC Axios - Yacob Reyes, Adriel Bettelheim, Tina Reed • 8h Nearly 6% of kindergartners in Florida were exempt from one or more vaccines during the 2025–2026 school year, well above the national average, … GDOT Now This Georgia Scenic Byway Is The Road Trip Of A Lifetime worldatlas.com - Bryan Dearsley • Now Georgia's Meriwether-Pike Scenic Byway loops for 55 miles through the communities of Warm Springs, Gay, Molena,...
Melissa Bailey, Author at KFF Health News
“Lost on the Frontline” is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.
Naloxon ist ein bewährtes Mittel gegen Überdosen. Warum kommen Jugendliche kaum ran?
Letzten August zog eine Gruppe Schülerinnen und Schüler der Garfield High School in Seattle los, um tagsüber zu trinken. Die Party war ziemlich gewöhnlich: draußen, jede Menge Jungle Juice, ein kollektives Aufatmen nach den Abschlussprüfungen. Doch innerhalb von Sekunden wurde die Lage bedrohlich, als ein Mitschüler bewusstlos aufgefunden wurde.
Naloxone Is a Proven Fix for Overdoses. So Why Can’t Teens Access It? Original
Last August, a bunch of students from Seattle’s Garfield High went day-drinking. The party was pretty standard: outdoors, lots of jungle juice, a collective post-finals sigh. In an instant, though, things took a scary turn when a classmate was found unconscious. That’s when Rilan Springer — adorned with a handmade purple crown denoting that she was there to help anyone who needed, and armed with Narcan, a nasal-spray form of the opioid antidote naloxone — leaped into action.
‘Going Home to Die’: People With Eating Disorders Need Special Care. Insurers Are Denying It Original
Skip to main content Illustration by MATTHEW COOLEY This reporting was supported by the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. WHEN PUBERTY HIT KATERINA RINALDI in middle school, it hit hard, fast, and earlier than everyone else. Quickly, Rinaldi started gaining weight; her body started changing, too. As she puts it, “I had curves.” With those curves came attention, especially from guys. Rinaldi didn’t dig it.
Global Health Inequities, Risks, and Solutions
The Pulitzer Center seeks ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation. Crucially, we’re also interested in how massive cuts in U.S. global health aid and other support are unfolding on the ground, globally, and in the U.S. The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for enterprise and underreported stories about global health inequities and challenges.
Managing Care When Gender-Affirming Therapy Is Limited
For one patient, the barriers to getting gender-affirming care manifested one facial hair at a time. The patient, a mid-20-year-old who was assigned male at birth and began transitioning to female in their early twenties, had long been distressed by the physical changes of male puberty, particularly the development of facial hair.
GLP-1s Are a Weight Loss Miracle. Could They Also Curb the Opioid Crisis? Original
Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post/Getty Images For Sydney S., there is no way to describe rock bottom. She was her addition and her addiction was her. Even from a young age, she says her memories contained one throughline: “Always wanting more.” Before 2024, Sydney, now 27, responded to every minor upset, irritant, or disappointment with drug use. (She requested her full last name not be shared to protect her privacy.) What started as a marijuana dependency at 12 moved to alcohol use at 14.
Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
Last October, President Donald Trump nominated nursing home owner Benjamin Landa as his next ambassador to Hungary, a key position that would place him in a country with a vigorous conservative movement.
Global Health Inequities, Risks, and Solutions
The Pulitzer Center seeks ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation. Crucially, we’re also interested in how massive cuts in U.S. global health aid and other support are unfolding on the ground, globally, and in the U.S. The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for enterprise and underreported stories about global health inequities and challenges.
'More Kids Will Die': Measles Are on the Rise -- and Doctors Say There's No End in Sight Original
Richard Eby knew things were getting bad when the schools shut down. Eby is a family medicine doctor based in Andrews, in West Texas. It’s a quiet town of 14,000, chock full of all-American touches — a Buffalo Wild Wings sits a few doors down from La Hacienda, a bottomless Mexican buffet with neon cacti on its facade and brightly colored papel picado strung across its interior.
Global Health Inequities, Risks, and Solutions
The Pulitzer Center seeks ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation. Crucially, we’re also interested in how massive cuts in U.S. global health aid and other support are unfolding on the ground, globally, and in the U.S. The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for enterprise and underreported stories about global health inequities and challenges.
For-profits are buying psychiatric hospitals; some flout federal law with scarce repercussions
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As the share of U.S. adults receiving mental health care treatment steadily grows, for-profit companies are playing an increasingly important role.
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Original
Skip to main content I n January 2020, just weeks before the NBA shut down and Costco shelves emptied and Tom Hanks got sick, Joy Corbitt’s only brother died in his mid-forties with symptoms of Covid. Which meant, from the pandemic’s earliest days, Joy was taking no chances. She’d heard that Black and brown people like her seemed to be getting sick and dying at higher rates than other Americans.
On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. On the far east side of Michigan, the future of fluoride in drinking water — long an ordinary practice for preventing tooth decay — has suddenly provoked passionate debate. Public meetings in St. Clair County, about an hour northeast of Detroit, have filled with people weighing in.
For-profit corporations are buying more psychiatric hospitals. Some flout law with few repercussions.
ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As the share of U.S. adults receiving mental health care treatment steadily grows, for-profit companies are playing an increasingly important role.
Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Utah’s dentistry board urged the state to revoke Nicholas LaFeber’s license after reports of failed root canals and poor dental work. Instead, regulators reinstated it.
NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The National Institutes of Health has launched a five-year, $37 million stillbirth consortium in a pivotal effort to reduce what it has called the country’s “unacceptably high” stillbirth rate.
A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent.
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the share of U.S. adults receiving mental health care treatment steadily grows, for-profit companies are playing an increasingly important role.
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
This article describes attempted suicide. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Late one Saturday night in May 2023, Melissa Keele’s phone rang. Her son had been found alone in the desert of Colorado’s Grand Valley. He was naked; his clothes, phone, keys and car were nowhere to be found. Keele rushed out to her own vehicle and floored it, her headlights piercing through the pitch black.
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
NOTE: If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of harming themselves, please call 911. If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal …
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren't honoring the law — and the government isn't following up. Over 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country have violated EMTALA in the past 15 years and almost all have faced the same lack of consequences, a ProPublica investigation has found. Since 2019, the HHS inspector general has only issued three penalties involving EMTALA violations by psychiatric hospitals.
A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In a moment of peril, Florida lawmakers allowed its insurer of last resort to take disputes before judges whose salaries it funds. Citizens has taken more than 1,500 insurance disputes to mandatory arbitration, where it wins more than 90% of final hearings. In court it wins just over half the time.
Foundations Review Role as Government Abandons Health Equity
Eleanor Dehoney doesn’t remember exactly where she was when it happened. But she does remember how it felt. Dehoney is senior vice president of Policy and Advocacy at Research!America, one of the largest nonprofit advocacy organizations for biomedical research — an alliance with more than 300 members including dozens of universities, disease-focused groups, and professional associations.
IV Fluid Shortages Persist Months After Hurricane Helene Hit a Supplier-Hospitals Have Had to Adapt
In the fall of 2017, Mitchell Cahan, MD, MBA, felt like he had entered a time machine. Hurricane Maria had just swept through Puerto Rico, and in an instant, the island went dark. The storm’s initial impact wiped out the power grid and other infrastructure; the floods that followed rendered roads impassable, wastewater treatment centers inoperable, and tap water undrinkable. Thousands died, tens of thousands struggled, and hundreds of thousands fled the island entirely.
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed. I had been dealing with pain for weeks — a bothersome ache that felt like a bad runner’s cramp. But now it was so intense I had to brace myself against the wall to stand up. A few hours after arriving at the emergency room, I heard my name.
US Government Sues Pharmacy Chains CVS and Walgreens for Their Alleged Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In the span of 30 days, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued both CVS and Walgreens, along with dozens of their state subsidiaries. The country’s largest pharmacy chains—which collectively operate more than 17 000 storefronts—aided and abetted the opioid epidemic, the federal lawsuits—filed last December and this January, respectively—allege.
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease, spinal muscular atrophy, grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2 million per dose. While taxpayers and small charities funded the drug’s early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.
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Join Eli's Team to Support Boston Medical Center! of the $9,300 target raised The Story Every November, the yells echoed through our apartment like clockwork. Growing up in NYC, the first weekend of that month always meant something special: people descended their skyscrapers, handwrote signs, stood on the sidewalk, and cheered.
Why Are Mothers Who Use Weed Legally Having Their Kids Taken Away?
September 22, 2024 Photo illustration by Matthew Cooley. Photographs in illustration by Adobe Stock, 3 Selah Givens is a bit of a wild child. She’ll wake you up at 6 a.m. Chuck a sippy cup your way. Insist you play with her until, well, you play with her. Those tendencies have earned the three-year-old a nickname, says her mother, Doshia Givens: Crazy Horse. “She knows she’s loved, she knows she’s spoiled,” Doshia tells Rolling Stone.
Medicare Advantage Has Become Notorious for Prior Authorization-CMS and Lawmakers Are Taking Action
When Kendra Sollars received the letter, she was shocked. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Images In the preceding months, her father’s falls had quickly gone from an occasional scare to a far-too-often occurrence. G. M. Sollars, MD, a former emergency medicine physician and self-declared Star Trek nerd, had spent weeks in the hospital and the skilled nursing facility where he lived when the letter came.
How Conflicts Around the Globe Are Breeding Our Next Pandemic Original
W hen Sergiy Antonenko came to, he was on fire. As he regained consciousness, the Ukrainian sniper realized the blaze set off by the makeshift explosive was all around him. It took nearly every remaining ounce of energy he had to roll into the river abutting the nameless village at the Dnipro border where his brigade had held the line against the Russians. When Antonenko woke up two and a half weeks later, in September 2022, he was in a hospital bed in Kyiv.
Islamophobia Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis Among Michigan’s Muslim Youth
In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, anxiety, depression and substance abuse strain the “9/11 generation” As a boy, Rabih Darwiche would sprint for cover when the monthly test sirens ripped through his quiet suburban Detroit neighborhood. Darwiche’s terror was about more than the ear-splitting roar alone: The tornado alarms took him back from Dearborn, Michigan, to his early childhood in 1980s Lebanon. There, similar sirens warned of imminent bombings by Israeli jets soaring overhead.
'My Generation Has Been Destroyed' -- Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing Michigan's Muslim Youth Original
This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. As a boy, Rabih Darwiche would sprint for cover when the monthly test sirens ripped through his quiet suburban Detroit neighborhood. Darwiche’s terror was about more than the earsplitting roar alone: The tornado alarms took him back from Dearborn, Michigan, to his early childhood in 1980s Lebanon. There, similar sirens warned of imminent bombings by Israeli jets soaring overhead.
As 988 centers struggle to hire, burnout plagues some crisis staff
For Belinda Mosby, the nightmares started in March. Mosby had been working at Carelon Behavioral Health, one of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline centers in New Hampshire, for two months. When Mosby started the job in January 2023, she said she was enthusiastic. After 25 years working in the mental health industry as a prison behavioral health specialist, substance abuse counselor and mobile crisis responder, she knew how dire the crisis was. She also said she knew she could help.
North Carolina governor hopes Medicaid expansion, to 600K residents, can be example after yearslong battle
(NEW YORK) -- More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act was passed, more than 600,000 adults in North Carolina are now eligible to receive benefits through an expansion of Medicaid that the state, like 10 others, long resisted. The change in policy was bipartisan, since North Carolina, a perpetual battleground state, has a government divided between Democrats and Republicans.
Heart health month: What we know about lipoprotein (a)
(NEW YORK) -- For decades, doctors have encouraged patients to monitor their cholesterol levels, with studies showing that heart disease risk increases with high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), also known as the “bad cholesterol,” and not enough high-density lipoprotein (HDL), also known as the “good cholesterol.” Diet, exercise and medications like statins can help people regulate their good and bad cholesterol levels.
As 988 centers struggle to hire, burnout plagues some crisis staff
Faced with heavy workloads and limited training, some workers are walking off. For Belinda Mosby, the nightmares started in March. Mosby had been working at Carelon Behavioral Health, one of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline centers in New Hampshire, for two months. When Mosby started the job in January 2023, she said she was enthusiastic.
As 988 centers struggle to hire, burnout plagues some crisis staff
As 988 centers struggle to hire, burnout plagues some crisis staff For Belinda Mosby, the nightmares started in March. Mosby had been working at Carelon Behavioral Health, one of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline centers in New Hampshire, for two months. When Mosby started the job in January 2023, she said she was enthusiastic.
Amid nationwide mental health crisis, suicide prevention hotlines struggle with repeat callers Original
Over the past 15 months, the phones at Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin have not stopped ringing. The center, which runs the 988 crisis hotline for the state, worked hard to expand its mental health services following the hotline's national relaunch. Like many centers across the country, they have has experienced surging demand that has outpaced anything experienced prior, Shelly Missall, the organization's 988 program manager, told ABC News.
Mobile crisis teams still sidelined despite growing need for mental health services, advocates warn Original
Advocates say these teams offer a "humanity-first lens" to mental health. In the summer of 2022, on a balmy Midwestern day, Marisa Stevenson said she found herself grooving to the Steve Miller Band at a stranger's house. Stevenson, a licensed counselor, was in that apartment on the South Side of Minneapolis because the woman who lived there—Indigenous, late 60's, living alone—had called the city's 988 lifeline: she was suicidal.
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