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Undocumented immigrant farmworkers across the United States are being hard hit by the pandemic while largely ineligible for federal relief. Limited access to health care, crowded living and working conditions, and few...
Since the coronavirus crisis began, Latinos and Latinas have disproportionately filled essential, in-person jobs that cannot be done from home. From grocery stores, farms, meatpacking plants and factories to transit...
In late 2025 governors celebrated large federal awards from a new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, but many state plans approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are encountering...
Emma Operacz was a busy Eastern Michigan University student, a semester away from a psychology degree, juggling two jobs and an active social life when a summer illness upended everything. In June 2024, while at a...
By Megan Cerullo Reporter, MoneyWatch February 6, 2026 / CBS News President Trump’s new online platform, TrumpRx.gov, launched Thursday as part of the administration’s effort to lower drug costs. The White House says...
On Feb. 5, 2026, the Trump administration launched TrumpRx, a new online listing of discounted prescription medicines aimed at offering lower direct-to-consumer prices. The site, announced at a White House event...
When Maisie Green was born in 2017 she was weak and floppy. Doctors eventually diagnosed spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease that destroys motor neurons and often proves fatal in early childhood. In 2019...
Kevin Murray knows cardiac disease firsthand. The Tampa father nearly died from an undiagnosed heart condition and required emergency bypass surgery in 2003. Now 72, he says that experience changed his outlook and made...
The Centers for Disease Control reported today that influenza activity is rising across the United States. New cases increased about 8% over last week, and at least one child death has been reported this season.
Cases of influenza are rising as the holiday season begins. New CDC figures show an 8% increase in people testing positive for flu in the week ending Dec. 6 and a 3% rise in health-care visits for respiratory illnesses.
December 12, 2025 — KFF Health News When she was 18, Dr. Su Wang learned she had chronic hepatitis B after a blood donation, an infection she likely acquired from a household member decades earlier. Wang, now medical...
December 8, 2025 / CBS News Ten years ago, Barbara Cooper’s parents moved into the Harborside Retirement Community in Port Washington, New York, paying $946,000 for what they believed would be their final home and...
