Category: Kaiser Health News

Namaste Noir: Yoga Co-Op Seeks to Diversify Yoga to Heal Racialized Trauma

In dealing with her son’s violent murder, fear over the coronavirus pandemic and the stress of coping with systemic racism, Beverly Grant has found strength and peace through yoga. The Denver native is part of a yoga co-op seeking to bring the ancient practice to more diverse communities as a health care tool.

Namaste Noir: Yoga Co-Op Seeks to Diversify Yoga to Heal Racialized Trauma

In dealing with her son’s violent murder, fear over the coronavirus pandemic and the stress of coping with systemic racism, Beverly Grant has found strength and peace through yoga. The Denver native is part of a yoga co-op seeking to bring the ancient practice to more diverse communities as a health care tool.

Where Mask-Wearing Isn’t Gospel: Colorado Churches Grapple With Reopening

Long considered one of the country’s evangelical strongholds, Colorado Springs cautiously returned to church after nearly two months without religious gatherings. But how congregations are handling Colorado’s new mask rules varies in this conservative city.

Analysis: When Is a Coronavirus Test Not a Coronavirus Test?

If it takes 12 days to get results, testing is basically pointless.

Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine

The FDA must approve any coronavirus vaccine before it’s widely distributed, but political pressure could cloud the decision.

In Texas, More People Are Losing Their Health Insurance as COVID Cases Climb

During the pandemic, nearly 700,000 additional Texans have lost health insurance. The Lone Star State already had more uninsured people than any other. It has given people with COVID symptoms pause before seeking medical care.

Biden Is Right. Pay for Home Health Workers Is Paltry.

These workers rely on public assistance — and, sometimes, a side gig to get by.

Dental and Doctors’ Offices Still Struggling with COVID Job Loss

Newly released employment data underscores the lingering toll the pandemic has taken on a range of outpatient services in California and across the U.S., from pediatric and family medical practices to dental offices, medical labs and home health care.

The COVID-19 Downturn Triggers Jump in Medicaid Enrollment

For the first time since 2017, Medicaid enrollment has begun increasing again, but not by as much as many analysts expected.

‘It’s About Love and Solidarity’: Mutual Aid Unites NYC Neighbors Facing COVID

Mutual aid groups, in which volunteers give their time and resources to help others in the community, are seeing a resurgence in New York with the coronavirus pandemic.