Category: Public Health

KFF Health Tracking Poll – May 2021: Prescription Drug Prices Top Public’s Health Care Priorities

The latest KFF Health Tracking Poll explores the public’s views on the U.S. role in distributing COVID vaccines to other countries, health care priorities for Congress, prescription drug regulations and price negotiations, and affordability changes in …

‘No new hybrid variant in Vietnam,’ WHO says

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Biden lays out new COVID-19 vaccine strategy, incentives: 9 things to know

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Expanding Insurance Coverage Is Top Priority for New Medicare-Medicaid Chief

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the administration will focus on getting more people insured and is interested in finding a way to alleviate the gap keeping low-income families in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid from enrolling in Affordable Care Act health plans.

NIH to test mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccine boosters

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Eased mask mandates haven’t fueled new COVID-19 cases, early data shows

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The rare condition surfacing among some COVID-19 long-haulers

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First human case of H10N3 bird flu confirmed in China

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From Racial Justice to Dirty Air, California’s New AG Plots a Progressive Health Care Agenda

In a candid interview, California’s newly appointed attorney general, Rob Bonta, reflects on his progressive roots and says he will pursue a health care agenda centered on the principle that quality medical care is a right, not a privilege.

The ‘Grief Pandemic’ Will Torment Americans for Years

More than 5 million Americans lost a loved one to covid, and the ripple effects could lead to serious illness down the road.