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US Medical Students Less Likely to Choose to Become Primary Care Doctors The percentage of primary care positions filled by fourth-year medical students in 2019 was the lowest on record.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
Medicare Going in 'Right Direction' on Opioid Epidemic A new report by the inspector general for HHS shows prescriptions to treat opioid addiction are way up in recent years, while prescriptions for the painkillers have fallen.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
More Americans Seek Alcohol-Free Social Spaces A national trend of boozeless bars is cropping up nationwide to create social spaces without the hangovers, DUIs, and alcoholism culture. It's part of a new push for sober options.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
FDA Ends Months-Long FOIA Battle Over Medical Device Failures KHN filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests over months, and the FDA responded Wednesday saying the data about device malfunctions are now publicly available online.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
Curing Cancer: Easy Politics, Difficult Science President Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to cure the disease that ranks as the nation's second-leading cause of death. Biology and affordability are among the roadblocks.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
Five Things We Found in the FDA's Hidden Device Database Millions of medical device malfunction and injury reports had been stored in a hidden database for the past two decades. Now 5.7 million incidents have been revealed to the public for the first time.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
In Secret, Seniors Discuss 'Rational Suicide' Running counter to the efforts of suicide prevention experts and many religious and social norms, some seniors are quietly exploring the option of turning to suicide when they feel they've lived long enough.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
Never Say 'Die': Why So Many Doctors Won't Break Bad News It's never easy to tell a patient about a terminal illness, but a longtime doctor whose own diagnosis was botched says physicians must do better.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
California Vaccine Bill Amended to Appease Governor The vaccine bill was amended to broaden the eligibility for children's medical exemptions from vaccines — and narrow the circumstances under which public health officials would review those exemptions.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
Texas Is Latest State to Attack Surprise Medical Bills A new state law says hospitals and insurers will have to work it out among themselves when they can't agree on a price — instead of sending huge bills to patients.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
In Combating Surprise Bills, Lawmakers Miss Air Ambulance Costs The median cost of an air ambulance bill is more than $36,000 and seldom covered by insurance. Yet none of the proposals in Congress to fix surprise medical bills address these services.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect With Patients The "My Life, My Story" project has writers crafting a story of a patient's life to be included in the EHR. The idea came from a resident doing a rotation at a Wisconsin VA hospital in 2012.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
How Measles Detectives Work to Contain an Outbreak From interviews to scouring records, public health department investigators do a lot of legwork to determine who might have been exposed. This year's measles outbreak is the nation's worst in 27 years.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
FDA Overlooked Red Flags in Drugmaker's Testing of New Depression Medicine In March, esketamine was approved by the FDA for the treatment of intractable depression, but critics say the FDA was given little evidence of the drug's efficacy and its safety for long-term use.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
FAQ: How Does New Fetal Tissue Policy Impact Medical Research? Under the new policy, employees at the National Institutes of Health will no longer conduct research with human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions. Scientists say research will be affected.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
Hospitals Accused of Paying Doctors Kickbacks in Quest for Patients Hospitals are eager to get particular specialists on staff because they bring in business. But those efforts, if they involve very high salaries or other enticements, can violate federal anti-kickback laws.
Kaiser Health News, June 2019
A Doctor Speaks Out About Ageism in Medicine A frank conversation with geriatrician and author Dr. Louise Aronson about medicine's biased treatment of older adults and what needs to change.
Kaiser Health News, May 2019
Escalating Workplace Violence Rocks Hospitals Many healthcare workers say the physical and verbal abuse come mainly from patients, some of whom are disoriented from illness or medication. A hospital in Ohio installed a metal detector in the ER.
Kaiser Health News, May 2019
As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice In California, more than 350,000 ER visits in 2017 ended when patients left the hospital after seeing a doctor but before their medical care was complete. That was a 57% increase from 5 years earlier.
Kaiser Health News, May 2019
Even Doctors Can't Navigate Our 'Broken Health Care System' Social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook are a powerful new avenue for people to seek redress for health care grievances. One doctor, angry at the care being shown for his father, did just that.
Kaiser Health News, May 2019

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