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What One Hospital’s Slow Recovery From a Cyberattack Means for Patients

By Farah Yousry, Side Effects Public Media June 16, 2023

U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks over the past few years. Getting hacked can cost a hospital millions of dollars, expose patient data, and even jeopardize patient care.

For Patients With Sickle Cell Disease, Fertility Care Is About Reproductive Justice

By Farah Yousry, Side Effects Public Media December 8, 2022

The disease, which predominantly affects Black patients, can damage the body in ways that can make having a child difficult. But patients don’t always have access to fertility care.

Supreme Court to Hear Nursing Home Case That Could Affect Millions

By Farah Yousry, Side Effects Public Media November 7, 2022

An Indiana man’s family sued a state-owned nursing home for alleged mistreatment. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case could determine the right of many Americans to sue government agencies.

A Catch-22 Trips Up Some in Legal Guardianship Who Try to Regain Independence

By Carter Barrett, Side Effects Public Media January 7, 2022

If a judge decides someone cannot make their own decisions, the person can be placed under a court-appointed guardianship, also known as a conservatorship. Some states are beginning to allow less-restrictive alternatives.

Setting the Record Straight on the FDA’s Authority Over Drug Ads

October 2, 2024

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

Telehealth Companies Boost Ad Spending While Taking on More Complex Medicine

By Darius Tahir January 30, 2025

Telehealth startups including Ro and Nurx are spending millions to promote themselves as easy dispensers of medicines. Some companies offer care for birth control, sexual dysfunction, and more complex conditions, including behavioral health disorders and obesity.

With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get

By Elisabeth Rosenthal Updated September 17, 2024 Originally Published September 9, 2024

The pharmaceutical industry has invented a new art form: finding ways to make their wares seem like joyous must-have treatments, while often minimizing lackluster efficacy and risks.

When It Comes to Ketamine, Meta’s Posting Policy Is No Party to Decipher

By Darius Tahir March 7, 2024

Despite growing awareness that the party drug is dangerous, the social media company is open to promotion of the drug in treating mental health.

4 Ways Vaccine Skeptics Mislead You on Measles and More

By Amy Maxmen and Céline Gounder May 22, 2024

Vaccine scare tactics haven’t shifted, but more parents are falling for them. Here’s what the rhetoric gets wrong and how it endangers children.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS Ruling Strips Power From Federal Health Agencies

June 28, 2024

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies, rather than judges, the power to interpret ambiguous laws passed by Congress. Administrative experts say the decision will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business. Also, the court decided not to decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

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