May 19, 2020Updated 11:38 a.m. ETThe mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only beginning to show itself, and it is too early to predict the scale of the impact.The coronavirus pandemic is an altogether different kind of cataclysm — an ongoing, wavelike, poorly understood threat that seems to be both everywhere and nowhere,…
Pieter-Steph du Toit (Gallo Images) Lloyd Burnard - Sport24 The best rugby players in South Africa are being lined up and approached for lucrative moves abroad despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.This stems from the 21-day contract window that was driven by the SA Rugby Industry and MyPlayers - a clause that allows all professional players…
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed federal policy on vaccine research, vaping, and drug access on Science Friday on May 8. Rovner also discussed the Supreme Court decision on the abortion pill mifepristone on NPR’s Morning Edition on May 5. Click here to hear Rovner on Science Friday. Click here to hear
Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to