KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Affordable Care Act subsidies on Crooked Media’s What a Day on Dec. 10 and on Slate’s What Next on Dec. 9. Click here to hear Rovner on What a Day. Click here to hear Rovner on What Next. KFF Health News Washington health policy reporter Amanda
JAMA Oncology highlights disparities in race reporting and diversity in clinical trials in the cancer field.Along with their colleagues, Dr. Jonathan Loree, a medical oncologist and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in Canada and Dr. Kanwal Raghav, an associate professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at The University…
ALPA PROD/ Shutterstock">Healthy working life expectancy is the average number of years people in a population are likely to be healthy and in paid work from age 50. ALPA PROD/ ShutterstockIn 1800, the global average life expectancy was only 29 years. Today, life expectancy continues to rise, with babies born in the UK in 2018…
Share on PinterestExisting evidence suggests that Black and South Asian individuals are more likely to experience poor COVID-19 outcomes than other demographics.Several recent studies and reports from different countries have shown that Black, Asian, and minority ethnic individuals in the United States and Europe are more likely to experience poor outcomes if they contract SARS-CoV-2,…
Harvest Inc., an Arizona-based marijuana conglomerate, said on Tuesday it would appeal Pennsylvania’s decision to revoke the permit of an affiliated cannabis grower that was effectively put out of business for not following the most basic security regulations. The action Monday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health marked the first time that the agency has…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara