Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed covid-19 vaccines and prostate cancer on WAMU’s “1A” on May 27. Click here to hear Gounder on “1A.” Senior correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed how internet dead zones deepen chronic health issues in rural communities on The Commonwealth Fund’s “The Dose” on May 23. Click […]
Calgarians are being warned about possible exposure to a confirmed case of measles in the city as the number of confirmed cases across the province hits 679.
The province says several locations in Winnipeg are the sites of measles exposures.
Polling by Angus Reid shows support for mandatory childhood measles vaccination has jumped over the past year, yet one in five parents remain hesitant or opposed.
In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost coal production, “bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” and to “put the miners back to work.” Trump said he calls […]
GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid. Cox, who is a property manager at a real estate company in Globe, has tenants who rely on the safety-net program. And at the domestic violence shelter where she volunteers as […]
A bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to the governor would make it easier for parents to enroll their children in school without standard vaccinations for diseases.
HAMILTON, Mont. — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation’s top research facilities, here in southwestern Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. It’s a reflection of the long-standing tension caused by Rocky Mountain Laboratories’ improbable location in this conservative, blue-collar town of 5,000 that was […]
There were 46 newly-confirmed cases of measles in Alberta over the weekend, with all but two of them in the province’s south health zone.
Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency. But most of the impact isn’t as tangible as, say, higher egg prices at the grocery store. One thing experts from a wide range of fields, from […]
