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In El Paso County, where five people were killed in a mass shooting at a nightclub in November, officials have filed relatively few emergency petitions to temporarily remove a personās guns, with scant approvals.
As teens, these three women lived amid street gangs around East St Louis, Illinois. Now, as adults, they support the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. And because of their past, some residents trust them more than they do the police.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
A complaint was filed with the state against an addiction treatment provider that wants to use rewards ā an effective but largely unregulated tool ā to help people stay in recovery.
In a city plagued by gun violence, Mykael Ash is turning ammunition into art. Ash, who lives in East St. Louis, Illinois, frequently walks through parts of the city where bullet shells arenāt hard to find. The shell casings represent a cycle of inequality, Ash says, and the art he makes with it serves as a call to action.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
After almost every mass shooting, a debate is renewed over whether to publish the photos of the carnage the guns have inflicted.
Multiple studies show a strong association between higher levels of optimism and healthy aging. We ask some dedicated optimists what might explain the connection.
The death of a sharp but frail patriarch just days before Thanksgiving casts a shadow on a familyās holiday season.
The Florida policy backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis relies on one key statistic that many experts question.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Only a sliver of the funding given to state, local, and tribal governments through the American Rescue Plan Act has been steered to mental health nationwide, but mental health advocates and clinicians hope the money it provides will help address gaps in care for children. In Appalachian Ohio, the funding is helping expand services.
States, tribes, and local governments are figuring out how best to spend billions of dollars from an opioid lawsuit settlement. One option theyāre considering is funding peer support specialists, who guide people recovering from addiction as they do it themselves.
The first fentanyl-related deaths of students in an area south of Austin, Texas, were reported over the summer. The school district, parents, and students are trying to deal with the aftermath.
Even some medical experts who are skeptical of gender-affirming care say the White House is not promoting breast removal and genital surgery for teens. But thatās not what an ad, funded by a group led by a former adviser to President Donald Trump, would have you believe.
Public health investigators found that 53% of maternal deaths happened well after a mother left the hospital ā from seven days to a year after the birth.
Abortion isnāt the only health issue voters will be asked to decide in state ballot questions next month. Proposals about medical debt, Medicaid expansion, and whether health care should be a right are on ballots in various states. Meanwhile, the latest lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act has expanded to cover all preventive care. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Nearly half of large employers report that increasing numbers of their workers were using mental health services, according to a KFF annual employer survey. Yet almost a third of those employers said their health planās network didnāt have enough behavioral health care providers for employees to have timely access to the care they need.
Colorado, Florida, and Idaho are the latest states to opt out of a survey that tracks concerning behaviors in high school students. Officials cite low participation and state laws that require parental permission. But some advocates say dwindling state participation is an āenormous lossā that will make it harder to track signs of poor mental health ā like drug and alcohol misuse and suicidal ideation ā among teens.
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