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Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected — mainly children — have been hospitalized. It’s going to get worse, largely because a growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles as well as diseases like polio and pertussis. Unvaccinated people, or those whose immunization status is unknown, account for 80% of the measles case...
Kaiser Health News
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the nation to tackle medical debt, targeting hospitals for their role in feeding a $2.9 billion problem. For over a year, the nation’s most populous county has worked on a comprehensive plan to track patient debt and hospital collection practices; boost bill forgiveness for low-income patients; and buy up and forgive billions in medical debt — an effort helmed by its Department of Public Health. Though LA County isn’t the first government entity to confront this crisis, what sets it apart is how it casts medical...
California Healthline
Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected — mainly children — have been hospitalized. It’s going to get worse, largely because a growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles as well as diseases like polio and pertussis. Unvaccinated people, or those whose immunization status is unknown, account for 80% of the measles case...
California Healthline
En el campamento que habían montado los estudiantes dentro del campus de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA), de repente la ginecóloga y obstetra residente Elaine Chan se sintió como una médica en un campo de batalla. La policía avanzó hacia el campamento luego de horas de enfrentamiento y tensión. Chan, de 31 años, voluntaria en el puesto de atención médica, dijo que los manifestantes llegaban con dificultades para caminar y con graves heridas punzantes. Pero, por el caos que reinaba afuera, había pocas posibilidades de trasladarlos a un hospital donde se les pudiera brindar ot...
Kaiser Health News (Espanol)
When a doctor in Pasadena, California, reported in October that a hospital patient was exhibiting classic symptoms of dengue fever, such as vomiting, a rash, and bone and joint pain, local disease investigators snapped into action. The mosquito-borne virus is common in places like Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Latin America, and when Americans contract the disease it is usually while traveling. But in this case, the patient hadn’t left California. Epidemiologists and public health nurses visited 175 households to conduct blood draws and local pest control workers began fumigating the patien...
Kaiser Health News
Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, she also operates a nonprofit organization focused on helping people caught up in the drug epidemic get back on their feet. The nonprofit, FAVOR ~ Western PA, sits in a rural pocket of the Allegheny Mountains east of Pittsburgh. Her organization’s home county of Westmoreland has seen roughly 100 or more drug overdose deaths each year for the past several years, the majority involving fentanyl. Tho...
Kaiser Health News
When a Pasadena doctor reported in October that a hospital patient was exhibiting classic symptoms of dengue fever, such as vomiting, a rash, and bone and joint pain, local disease investigators snapped into action. The mosquito-borne virus is common in places like Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Latin America, and when Americans contract the disease it is usually while traveling. But in this case, the patient hadn’t left California. Epidemiologists and public health nurses visited 175 households to conduct blood draws and local pest control workers began fumigating the patient’s neighborhood...
California Healthline
The Host Julie RovnerKFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. Public health officials are watching with concern since a strain of bird flu spread to dairy cows in at least nine states, and to at least one dairy worker. But in the wake of covid-19, many farmers are loath to let in health authori...
Kaiser Health News
In der Europäischen Union ist die Zahl der Keuchhusten-Fälle im vergangenen Jahr von rund 6000 auf fast 60.000 gestiegen, teilte das Europäische Zentrum für die Prävention und die Kontrolle von Krankheiten Ende April mit. Damit gab es eine Verzehnfachung der Keuchhustenfälle. Nun warnen auch die rumänischen Ärzte erneut vor der gefährlichen bakteriellen Infektion, die insbesondere für Babys und Kinder tödlich sein kann. Laut Angaben der rumänischen Gesundheitsbehörden wurden in Rumänien in diesem Jahr bereits 122 Fälle gemeldet. Fünf Kinder in Großbritannien gestorben Noch dramatischer ist die...
Euronews (German)
Inside the protesters’ encampment at UCLA, beneath the glow of hanging flashlights and a deafening backdrop of exploding flash-bangs, OB-GYN resident Elaine Chan suddenly felt like a battlefield medic. related coverage from 2020 Less-Lethal Weapons Blind, Maim and Kill. Victims Say Enough Is Enough. Read More Police were pushing into the camp after an hours-long standoff. Chan, 31, a medical tent volunteer, said protesters limped in with severe puncture wounds, but there was little hope of getting them to a hospital through the chaos outside. Chan suspects the injuries were caused by rubber bu...
Kaiser Health News
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