The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking […]
Study finds only 15% of rural health care workers have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
Antibody testing of health care workers in three rural counties in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota showed only 15% […]
Democracies more likely than autocracies to maintain universal health coverage
Despite widespread recognition that universal health coverage is a political choice, the roles that a country's political system plays in […]
Colorado will pay hospitals to close expensive free-standing ERs
Colorado health officials so abhor the high costs associated with free-standing emergency rooms they're offering to pay hospitals to shut […]
Why your dentist might seem pushy
In 1993, Dr. David Silber, a dentist now practicing in Plano, Texas, was fired from the first dental clinic he […]
Inmates’ distrust of prison health care fuels distrust of Covid vaccines
One November night in a Missouri prison, Charles Graham woke his cellmate of more than a dozen years, Frank Flanders, […]
Putin's COVID-19 vaccination to be kept out of public eye
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin will be getting his first vaccination against COVID-19 on Tuesday, but out of sight […]
The case for donating US Covid vaccines overseas
A Senate committee grilled federal officials about the shortage of vaccines to protect Americans against a pandemic virus. Two months […]
Covid cases plummet 83% among nursing home staffers despite vaccine hesitancy
Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going […]
College tuition sparked a mental health crisis. Then the hefty hospital bill arrived.
Despite a lifelong struggle with panic attacks, Divya Singh made a brave move across the world last fall from her […]