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How social factors influence patients’ fitness before surgery

War-zone hospital patients found to carry multidrug-resistant bacteria

Journalists Talk Medicaid Work Rule Logistics and Colon Cancer Increase Among Young Adults

KFF Health News Montana correspondent Katheryn Houghton discussed Medicaid work requirements on The Majority Report with Sam Seder on Aug. 7. Click here to watch...

Many smokers have misperceptions about nicotine. Researchers harness curiosity to correct them

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Journalists Distill $50B Rural Health Fund and Newsmaking Diagnoses

Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute...
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The Simple Sleep Hack That Can Be Lifechanging

Call me weird, but oral health has always fascinated me. And it’s more than just brushing your teeth twice a day and flossing. Mouth...
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What You Need to Know Before Starting to Log Your Food

You know that moment when you finish a meal and wonder, Did I actually eat enough protein? Or you can’t figure out why you’re...
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Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health

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Dairy cattle H5N1 virus remains adapted to birds, with little sign...

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California Looked to Them To Close Health Disparities, Then It Backpedaled

Vanessa G. Sánchez Fortina Hernández is called “the one who knows it all.” For more than two decades, the community health worker has supported hundreds of...