Category: NPR

An NPR poll finds that while a large majority of people using telehealth during the pandemic were satisfied, nearly two-thirds prefer in-person visits. That may foretell telehealth’s future.

An NPR poll finds that while a large majority of people using telehealth during the pandemic were satisfied, nearly two-thirds prefer in-person visits. That may foretell telehealth’s future.

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state’s secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

As health care workers face increased levels of pandemic burnout, the Biden Administration is looking to help states recruit and retain clinicians in underserved areas.

The U.S. donation from its domestic supplies comes on top of the 50 million doses previously donated to Africa, which world health officials say is 500 million doses short of its goal.

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.”