Covering the most noteworthy news stories in the health and wellness industry for the Filipino community.
NEARLY two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five witnesses: “Hang with us.” Federal lawmakers face a year-end deadline…
RED meat, believe it or not, is a known carcinogen, a food item associated a lot with cancer. Studies have repeatedly shown, confirmed by new findings, that eating red meat,…
ALAMEDA COUNTY – With measles on the rise nationally, and recent cases locally, Alameda County joins Bay Area health officials in urging everyone to be up to date on measles vaccinations…
by Sarah Jane Tribble KFF Health News For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she…
by Angela Hart and Samantha Young KFF Health News SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has abandoned proposed protections for millions of California workers toiling in sweltering warehouses, steamy…
by Sarah Jane Tribble KFF Health News For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she…
Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage…
From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, forcing governments worldwide to issue stay-at-home advisories…
by Susan Jaffe KFF Health News BART Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could…
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unexpectedly yanked its support from a sweeping proposal that would have protected millions of California’s indoor workers from dangerous heat, saying it can’t endorse…
by Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker KFF Health News Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff…
by Harris Meyer KFF Health News Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At…
by Amy Maxmen KFF Health News Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, March 11 that he is throwing his weight behind legislation to bar medical debt from showing up on consumer credit reports, a Democratic-led…
by Laurie Udesky KFF Health News California’s efforts to expand access to abortion care are enabling more types of medical practitioners to perform certain abortion procedures — potentially a boon…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, March 11 that he is throwing his weight behind legislation to bar medical debt from showing up on consumer credit reports, a Democratic-led…
President Joe Biden touted his administration’s accomplishments in health care in a wide-ranging State of the Union address on Thursday evening that touched on subjects such as immigration, the economy,…
President Joe Biden is counting on outrage over abortion restrictions to help drive turnout for his reelection. Former President Donald Trump is promising to take another swing at repealing Obamacare….
SACRAMENTO — California voters will decide March 5 whether to pump billions more dollars into combating the nation’s worst homelessness crisis, an investment Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom argues will finally…
by Katheryn Houghton KFF Health News States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses. Too often, health care…
Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Maryland after her water broke. It was weeks before the baby would have any chance…
Millions of Medi-Cal beneficiaries can now save for a rainy day, keep an inheritance, or hold on to a modest nest egg, without losing coverage, thanks to an eligibility change…
by Elisabeth Rosenthal KFF Health News GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for…
Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic…
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and…
by Amy Maxmen KFF Health News Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at…
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado. “If someone’s in labor, they’ll…
by Harvey L. Sapigao IN the ’90s, Dr. Neila Cortes-Maramba of UP Manila led a team of scientists investigating ten medicinal plants in the Philippines. Two of these plants exhibited…
by Kylie Mohr KFF Health News Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho’s Treasure…
by Liz Szabo KFF Health News Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop…
