Conversation wih Beth Simone Noveck about Technology and Governance
The evenings’s great story. Host Carol Castiel speaks with the director of the “Governance Lab” and Northeastern University…
‘The Charges Seem Crazy’: Hospitals Impose a ‘Facility Fee’ — For a Video…
Michelle Andrews
When Arielle Harrison’s 9-year-old needed to see a pediatric specialist at Yale New Haven Health System in…
Abortion Rights Advocates Try to Change Opinions With Deeply Personal…
Patty Wight, Maine Public Radio
It’s Saturday, and Sarah Mahoney is one of several Planned Parenthood volunteers knocking on…
Seeking Refills: Aging Pharmacists Leave Drugstores Vacant in Rural America
Markian Hawryluk
Ted Billinger Jr. liked to joke that he would work until he died. That turned out to be prophetic.…
As Hospitals Fill Up, Paramedics Spend More Time Moving Patients, Less on…
GUNNISON, Colo. — The night after Thanksgiving, a small ambulance service that covers a huge swath of southwestern…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Oh, Oh, Omicron
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,…
Covid Shots for Kids Are Scarce — And Demand Is Mixed — In Rural Montana
Aaron Bolton
When children ages 5 to 11 were approved for Pfizer’s lower-dose pediatric covid-19 vaccine in November, Annie…
Nurses in Crisis Over Covid Dig In for Better Work Conditions
Christine Spolar and Mark Kreidler and Rae Ellen Bichell
Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength…
After ‘Truly Appalling’ Death Toll in Nursing Homes, California Rethinks…
Samantha Young
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of covid lived in a nursing home.
They…
Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge
John Daley, Colorado Public Radio
Harold Burch’s home has a spectacular view in Paonia, a rural part of Colorado’s Western…