Parents’ Checklist: Prepare Your Family’s Health for Back-to-School Season
Choose healthy lunches and snacks If your kiddos purchase school lunch, confirm that there are healthy options available. If you pack your children’s lunch, make sure they are colorful. Include fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, protein and healthy fats. This…
Rural Americans Have Difficulty Accessing a Promising Cancer Treatment
Suzanne BeHanna initially turned down an experimental but potentially lifesaving cancer treatment. Three years ago, the newlywed, then 62, was sick with stage 4 lymphoma, sick from two failed rounds of chemotherapy, and sick of living in a trailer park…
The $18,000 Breast Biopsy: When Having Insurance Costs You a Bundle
When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it. She was 35, the same age her mother had been when she received a breast cancer diagnosis in 1997. The disease eventually killed…
Your monkeypox questions answered
What is monkeypox and what are its symptoms? Monkeypox is a virus that spreads primarily through skin-to-skin contact. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with monkeypox get a rash that may appear on the hands,…
Readers and Tweeters Place Value on Community Services and Life-Sustaining Care
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. A Cure for Ambulance Sticker Shock This is a comment about your recent story on ambulance…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Wrapping Up Summer’s Health News
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Congress and President Joe…
Sleepless Nights Over Her Children’s Future as Debts Pile Up
“My doctor saved my life, but my medical bills are stealing from my children’s lives.” Jeni Rae Peters Jeni Rae Peters, 44, Rapid City, South Dakota Approximate Medical Debt: More than $30,000 Medical Issue: Breast cancer What Happened: Jeni Rae…
Lose 1 Lb. of FAT per Week – The Healthy Way with Total Gym – Week 4
Ok, Total Gym Team, it’s Master Trainer JayDee back so let’s jump right in with week #4. Tons of Fun to go over. We are sticking to an easy-to-follow, Three-Prong Attack adhering to my version of the K.I.S.S. acronym –…
Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
The first unexpected bill arrived in December, just weeks before Tara Lovell’s husband of 40 years died from bladder cancer. Lovell worked as an ultrasound technologist at the local Audrain Community Hospital, in Mexico, Missouri, and was paying more than…
Watch: How Nursing Homes Put Friends and Families on the Hook for Residents’ Debts
Barbara Robinson was just trying to help her mother’s friend sign up for Medicaid and move into the Monroe County nursing home in Rochester, New York. But because Robinson signed the admissions form, the nursing home considered her financially responsible…
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