Public Health
A New Way to Measure Heat Risks for People
Facing more sizzling summers, Colorado tests a new risk formula that raises the likelihood of health warnings
Stories by Kaiser Health News
Health Care
Patients and Doctors Navigate Conflicting Abortion and Emergency Care Laws
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has put medical providers in the tough position of deciding when emergency abortions and other lifesaving procedures are necessary...
Weather
Heat Waves Affect Children More Severely
Children “are not little adults”—they have more trouble regulating temperature than adults do
Mental Health
A Look at the Mental Health Provisions in the New Gun Law
Most of the $13 billion appropriated in the new legislation Congress recently passed focuses on mental health programs
Health Care
Disposable Hospital Gowns Could Expose Health Workers to Infection
Widely used gowns, intended to protect people, can let too much liquid seep through, new studies suggest
Epidemiology
What You Need to Know about Monkeypox
An infectious disease expert answers questions about how the virus spreads, what its symptoms are and how to get testing and treatment
Reproduction
New Abortion Laws Could Make Prenatal Genetic Screening Harder to Do
States that outlaw abortions after a certain number of weeks could make it difficult or impossible to terminate a pregnancy because of a serious genetic disorder
Medicine
Correcting Misinformation about How ‘Plan B’ Works
As states move to limit access to abortion, some are taking aim at the popular form of emergency contraception
Reproduction
How Abortion Restrictions Could Affect Care for Miscarriages
The drugs and procedures used to terminate a pregnancy are the same ones used to treat patients for early pregnancy loss or ectopic pregnancies
Epidemiology
A Guide to the Different Omicron Subvariants
How to tell the different versions of SARS-CoV-2 apart, and how well vaccines protect against them
Public Health
Making COVID Tests Better at Detecting Infectious People
Scientists are debating whether to use a little-known measure to determine who is truly contagious. The NFL is already using it
Public Health
COVID Still Threatens Millions of Immunocompromised People
People who suffer from diseases or take treatments that leave them highly vulnerable to COVID fear being left behind as the country drops pandemic restrictions
Reproduction
Texas Toughens Ban on Medication-by-Mail Abortions
A new law threatens jail time and hefty fines for anyone who prescribes the pills online or by mail
Politics
Conservative Justices Seem Poised to Overturn Roe’s Abortion Rights
Justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a case over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
Reproduction
California Plans for a Post-Roe World as Abortion Access Shrinks Elsewhere
Abortion providers are preparing for a surge in demand from other states if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark ruling
Vaccines
Biden’s New Plan to Combat COVID is a Start, but Experts Say There Is a Ways to Go
The plan includes vaccine mandates for federal workers and those at companies with 100 or more employees, but some experts say it doesn’t go far enough
Public Health
Wildfire Smoke Drives People Indoors, Raising COVID Risk
The particulates in smoke also cause lung inflammation that may make people more susceptible to the virus
Policy
Supreme Court Upholds the Affordable Care Act—Again
By a vote of 7-2, the court declined to overturn the landmark health care law for the third time
Public Health
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers from COVID
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government
Public Health
More Women Than Men Are Getting COVID Vaccines
The reasons may include women’s roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general
