What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice?
What good is a vaccine when there is no rice? Episode 7 of āEradicating Smallpoxā explores the barriers public health workers face in communities where peopleās basic needs arenāt being met.
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Using Opioid Settlement Cash for Police Gear Like Squad Cars and Scanners Sparks Debate
State and local governments will receive a windfall of more than $50 billion over 18 years from settlements with companies that made, sold, or distributed opioid painkillers. Using the funds for law enforcement has triggered important questions about what the money was meant for.
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Why Is Finding Covid Shots for Young Children Still So Hard?
In Los Angeles and elsewhere, some parents are having trouble finding the new pediatric covid shot, especially for young children. Not all pediatricians or pharmacies have it and can administer it, even if vaccines.gov says they can.
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A Third of Schools Donāt Have a Nurse. Hereās Why Thatās a Problem.
School nurses treat children daily for a wide range of illnesses and injuries, and sometimes serve as a young patientās only health provider. They also function as a point person for critical public health interventions. Yet many states donāt require them, and school districts struggle to hire them.
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The New Vaccines and You: Americans Better Armed Than Ever Against the Winter Blechs
Flu, covid, and respiratory viruses kill thousands of Americans each year, but the latest batch of vaccines could save lives.
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PrEP, a Key HIV Prevention Tool, Isnāt Reaching Black Women
New HIV infections occur disproportionately among Black women, but exclusionary marketing, fewer treatment options, and provider wariness have limited uptake of preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, drugs, which reduce the risk of contracting the virus.
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (Part 1)
Season 10, Episode 2Pharmaceutical patents can drive up the costs of lifesaving medications. Hear what author and YouTube star John Green is doing to make tuberculosis drugs more accessible to the people who need them most.
Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them
Season 2, Episode 6Trust is hard to build and easy to break. In Episode 6 of the āEradicating Smallpoxā podcast, meet Chandrakant Pandav, a health worker who used laughter and song to try to rebuild trust with communities harmed by Indiaās sometimes violent and coercive family planning campaign.
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āIām So Burned Outā: Fighting to See a Specialist Amplified Pain for Riverside County Woman
Teresa Johnson has been in extreme pain for more than a year after what she believes was a severe allergic reaction to iodine. Her Medi-Cal plan approved her referral to a specialist, but it took her numerous phone calls, multiple complaints, and several months to book an appointment.
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Mothers of Color Canāt See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?
Many women, especially Black women, have reported discrimination in maternity care, but expectant mothers lack tools to see where this happens. Funding and regulations to measure disparities have been slow in arriving, but some innovators are trying to fill the void.
By Sarah Kwon An Encore: 3 HHS Secretaries Reveal What the Job Is Really Like
Episode 317In this special encore episode, Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā āWhat the Health?ā asks three people who have served as the nationās top health official: What does a day in the life of the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services look like? And how much of their agenda is set by the White House? Taped in June before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former HHS secretaries. Secretary Xavier Becerra and former secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar talk candidly about what it takes to run a department with more than 80,000 employees and a budget larger than those of many countries.
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More Schools Stock Overdose Reversal Meds, but Others Worry About Stigma
Colorado is among several states that ensure schools have access to the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone for free or at reduced cost. But most districts hadnāt signed up by the start of the school year for a state distribution program amid stigma around the lifesaving treatment.
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Facing Criticism, Feds Award First Maternal Health Grant to a Predominantly Black Rural Area
Mississippi has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. Now, it also has a federal grant to help in rural areas. The award could signal more flexibility from federal officials.
More Medicaid Messiness
Episode 316At least 30 states are reinstating coverage for children wrongly removed from the rolls under Medicaid redetermination, the federal government reported. Itās just the latest hiccup in the massive effort to review the eligibility of Medicaid beneficiaries now that the programās pandemic-era expansion has expired. And federal oversight of the so-called unwinding would be further complicated by an impending government shutdown. Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet join Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā Samantha Liss, who reported and wrote the latest Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News-NPR āBill of the Monthā feature, about a hospital bill that followed a deceased patientās family for more than a year.
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As Covid Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines
āPeople want covid-19 to be in the rearview mirror,ā one nursing home official says. Faced with a slow rollout of the updated covid vaccines, and without state mandates for workers to get vaccinated, most skilled nursing facilities are relying on persuasion to boost vaccination rates among staff and residents.
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What Happens to Health Programs if the Federal Government Shuts Down?
Medicare and Medicaid shouldnāt be affected, but confusion can be expected.
By Julie Rovner The Tata Way
Season 2, Episode 5Episode 5 of the āEradicating Smallpoxā podcast explores how a partnership between public health institutions and a huge, influential private company was key in the campaign to eliminate smallpox.
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Officials Agree: Use Settlement Funds to Curb Youth Addiction. But the āHowā Gets Hairy.
Parents, educators, and elected officials agree that investing in school-based prevention efforts could help curb the rising rate of youth drug overdoses. The well-known D.A.R.E. program is one likely choice, but its effectiveness is in question.
Countdown to Shutdown
Episode 315Congress appears to be careening toward a government shutdown, as a small band of House conservatives vow to block any funding for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 unless they win deeper cuts to health and other domestic programs. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump continues to roil the GOP presidential primary field, this time with comments about abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Tami Luhby of CNN join Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also, for āextra credit,ā the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Injects Presidential Politics Into the Covid Vaccine Debate
Losing ground in the Republican primary, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and his top medical advisers dismissed the recent federal recommendation that almost everyone get an updated covid shot.
By Phil Galewitz and Daniel Chang