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Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

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RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Kaiser Health

Ask KHN-PolitiFact: Is My Cloth Mask Good Enough? The 2022 Edition

Victoria KnightJanuary 12, 2022 Assorted Ideas, Large & Small The highly transmissible omicron variant is sweeping the U.S., causing a huge spike in covid-19 cases and overwhelming many hospital systems. Besides urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, public health…

Injuries Mount as Sales Reps for Device Makers Cozy Up to Surgeons, Even in Operating Rooms

Cristina Martinez’s spinal operation in Houston was expected to be routine. But after destabilizing her spine, the surgeon discovered the implant he was ready to put in her back was larger than he wanted to use — and the device…

Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even as Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain Momentum

Katheryn Houghton March 30, 2021 Linda Heim knew her dad didn’t plan to wait for the cancer to kill him. For decades, he’d lived in Montana, which they’d thought was one of the few places where terminally ill people could…

Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not an ‘Excuse’ for Current Medical Racism.

For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans are more hesitant than white Americans to get the…

Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices

Emmarie Huetteman   March 23, 2021 Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the…

How Covid Has Changed Our Movement, as Revealed by Your Cellphone

Phillip Reese   March 16, 2021 For all of our grousing about covid fatigue, a few novel trends are clear one year into the pandemic. Use Our Content It can be republished for free.

‘Explained by KHN’: Consumer Concerns About the Covid Vaccines

Arthur Allen and Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News and Tarena Lofton March 12, 2021 The twists and turns of the American health system can sometimes leave people lost, confused and looking for answers. We’ve created a new video series —…

One Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death

Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact   March 11, 2021 Now that the coronavirus has been in the United States for roughly a year, new numbers are revealing the scale of covid-19’s impact on American health: Covid has become the country’s third-leading cause…

Food Guidelines Change But Fail to Take Cultures Into Account

Chaseedaw Giles   February 1, 2021 The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services have once again developed new food guidelines for Americans that urge people to customize a diet of nutrient-dense food. For the…

5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You’re Vaccinated

Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News   January 15, 2021 As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a covid vaccine. She received her second dose last week  — even before President-elect Joe…