Daily Edition for Monday, April 14, 2025
The Robot Will See You Now: Robots are roaming the hallways at El Camino Health, helping to deliver medications and take samples to the laboratory. They are among the new technologies implemented to improve efficiency while allowing clinicians to focus on patient care. Read more from Bay Area News Group.
Magic Happens When Kids and Adults Learn To Swim. Tragedy Can Strike if They Don’t.
By Cara Anthony
A swim team in North St. Louis combats the public health threat of drowning — especially among Black children and adults — by promoting water safety not just for its athletes but also their parents.
Journalists Delve Into Effects of Deep Federal Cuts on Public Health
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Daily Edition for Friday, April 11, 2025
Biomedical Research Hub Coming To San Diego: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis plans to build a $1.1 billion research hub in San Diego as part of its $23 billion investment in U.S. operations over the next five years. It will create nearly 1,000 jobs at Novartis and about 4,000 jobs in the U.S. as the company adds seven facilities. Read more from The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Trump elimina la oficina que establece los niveles de pobreza vinculados a servicios para 80 millones de personas
By Arthur Allen
Los despidos y el cierre de la oficina podrían causar recortes en la asistencia a las millones de familias de bajos ingresos el próximo año.
More Psych Hospital Beds Are Needed for Kids, but Neighbors Say Not Here
By Eric Berger
Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a plan to build a 77-bed pediatric mental health hospital. Resistance to such facilities has occurred in other communities as misconceptions about mental health spur fear.
Families of Transgender Youth No Longer View Colorado as a Haven for Gender-Affirming Care
By Rae Ellen Bichell
Illustration by Oona Zenda
Colorado was long considered a haven for gender-affirming care. But under this Trump administration, hospitals in the state have limited the treatments available for people under 19. Some services have been restored, but trans youth and their families say the state isn’t the rock they thought it was.
Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for at Least 80 Million People
By Arthur Allen
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Dismantling of HHS
A week into the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services announced by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the scope of the staff cuts and program cutbacks is starting to become clear. Among the biggest targets for reductions were the nation’s premier public health agencies: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the […]
RFK Jr.’s Purge of FOIA Staff at FDA Spares People Working on Covid Vaccine Lawsuits
By Rachana Pradhan
A purge of FDA staff spared some people tasked with responding to a judge’s orders to disclose government records on covid vaccines, according to agency employees. The FOIA litigation was brought by Aaron Siri, an ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s who represents anti-vaccine interests.
