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A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That’s Raising His Risk Of Deportation

By Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media November 26, 2019

Behavioral problems, criminal arrests and limited access to health care leave a father worried his 21-year-old son will be deported to Mexico.

Readers React: UVA Doctors Outraged Over Their Own Health System’s Billing Practices

November 25, 2019

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes November 22, 2019

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.

Drug Deals And Food Gone Bad Plague Corner Stores. How Neighbors Are Fighting Back.

By Cara Anthony November 22, 2019

Corner stores that provide groceries for those using the federal food stamp program have become magnets for violence just outside St. Louis. Gunshots ring out under the cover of darkness, windows are postered over, and the quality of food doesn’t make a trip to the corner store worth the risk. Now local residents are putting their feet down.

Some Academics Quietly Take Side Jobs Helping Tobacco Companies In Court

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio November 12, 2019

Faced with lawsuits from sick smokers, tobacco firms argue the health risks were “common knowledge” for decades, and they often pay professors to help make that point as expert witnesses.

FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market ― Despite Manufacturing Concerns

By Sydney Lupkin November 4, 2019

The agency approved Gilead’s “game changer” hepatitis C cure, bypassing concerns raised by its own federal inspectors. The problems they found at the company’s main U.S. drug-testing laboratory in Foster City, Calif., were so bad, they recommended withholding approval.

Grief Grew Into A Mental Health Crisis And A $21,634 Hospital Bill

By Laura Ungar October 31, 2019

She spent five days in the hospital undergoing psychiatric care. The bill she got is about the same price as a new Honda Civic.

Pharma Sells States On ‘Netflix Model’ To Wipe Out Hep C. But At What Price?

By JoNel Aleccia and Barbara Feder Ostrov and Donna Gordon Blankinship October 25, 2019

Manufacturers of lucrative drugs say they’re offering discounts off the high sticker prices ― but taxpayers footing the big bills might never know what the state is paying or if it’s getting a good deal.

A Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms

By Liz Szabo October 22, 2019

Companies are aggressively touting 3D mammograms, although there’s no evidence they save lives.

‘Fear Of Falling’: How Hospitals Do Even More Harm By Keeping Patients In Bed

By Melissa Bailey October 17, 2019

In what experts call an “epidemic of immobility,” older hospital patients remain stuck in bed, their movements tracked by loud and ineffective bed alarms, losing muscle mass that’s key to their health and daily functioning.