KHN: Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster

Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News and Arthur Allen and Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News January 26, 2021 Americans are dying of covid-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall. Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are running their …

Advertisement

HLM 2015: State gun rules vary for health systems

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/QUA-318003/Gun-Laws-in-Health-Systems-Vary-by- Hospitals aren’t havens from mass shootings By Tinker Ready For the staff at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the fuzzy security photo of a young man entering the Charleston church where he shot nine people had to be disturbingly familiar. A hospital camera recorded similar scenes in January, when a man walked …

Obey! Shepard Fairey joins COVID19 fight

KHN: Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID Exposures

By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News and Markian Hawryluk May 13, 2020 Dinah Jimenez assumed a world-class hospital would be better prepared than a chowder house to inform workers when they had been exposed to a deadly virus. So, when her boyfriend, an employee of a popular seafood restaurant in Seattle, received a call from …

COVID-19: Testing, tracing and spreading out in Boston

Testing at nursing homes In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city has announced that it plans to test every resident of the city’s nursing homes and assisted living complexes. They hope the program will be a pilot for the rest of the state. From the city: Through the project, the Broad Institute in partnership with the Cambridge Public …

From the archives: How Partners in Health went after TB, HIV

I was at a conference when I happened to hear Dr. Jim Kim talking about how Partners in Health was having success with drug-resistant TB. They wanted to do the same for HIV. Here's the story I wrote in 1999. Will their approach -- testing and contact tracing -- get results against the coronavirus here …

Bringing Home Something Deadly: How Health Workers Are Isolating From Their Families

With limited supplies of masks, eye protection and face shields, health care workers must resort to dangerous rationing measures like reusing …Bringing Home Something Deadly: How Health Workers Are Isolating From Their Families

About Asymptomatic Carriers

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., around the last week of February, I joked to a colleague that maybe now, finally, people would learn how to wash their …

KHN: How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk

Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and Erika Fry, Fortune In fall 2009, several dozen of the best minds in health information technology huddled at a hotel outside Washington, D.C., to discuss potential dangers of an Obama White House plan to spend billions of tax dollars computerizing medical records. The health data geeks trusted that transitioning …

Cancer on a tight budget and more: Catch up on #health news from the #Boston Globe and STATnews

From the Boston Globe Surgeon Dr. Jane Mendez told Cajuste she had invasive ductal carcinoma,the most common type of breast cancer. The mass was baseball-size, too big to safely remove, Mendez told Cajuste, then 56, and her daughter, Yasheena Bey, during a tearful appointment. Chemotherapy to shrink it was where her treatment journey would start. …