Category: NPR

Colorado now requires private health insurance plans to cover gender-affirming care for trans people like facial bone remodeling and hormone therapy. Health advocates say it’s a very big deal.

Putting off surgeries or routine treatments for serious illnesses has become common during the pandemic, a new NPR/Harvard poll finds.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva oversees the nation’s largest sheriff’s department, with roughly 18,000 employees. He said his employees are willing to be terminated rather than get vaccinated.

America’s hospitals are already strained from the delta surge. Now they fear they’ll be further overwhelmed by pent-up demand for services and a potentially bad flu season.

The UCHealth hospital system in Colorado says unvaccinated patients won’t be eligible for an organ transplant, citing the “significant risk the virus poses to transplant recipients.”

In his new book, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb lays out what it will take for the U.S. to be ready to face future health crises.

Johnson & Johnson asks the Food and Drug Administration to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government moves toward expanding its booster campaign.

The pandemic has intensified burnout among health care workers. They say it’s eroding their passion for the job and the quality of patient care. Here’s how some of them are trying to solve it.

There are more than 2 million uninsured adults in states that didn’t expand Medicaid. Congressional Democrats have a plan to cover them — if they can find money for it in the massive spending bill.

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.