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Doctor holding tablet showing brain human and body (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

AI, health care and human realities

Arjun V.K. Sharma - Undark
Abortion rights demonstrators gather near the Washington Monument during a nationwide rally in support of abortion rights in Washington, D.C., US, on May 14, 2022. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

I'm an ER doc, abortion care is my job

Dr. Sophia Spadafore
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

New tech risks health care price fixing

Julie Rovner, David Hilzenrath - KFF Health News
Empty Hospital Bed (Getty Images/David Sacks)

Mortality gap widens in rural health

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Everest Base Camp 5364 m, written on a big rock on Khumbu glacier, Mt. Everest behind covered by monsoon clouds. (Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

My hardest medical job wasn't on Everest

Mimi Zieman
Cost of living, concept (Getty Images/CarlaNichiata)

Why you feel poorer than ever

Joe Tauke
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Being Black and pregnant in the South

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's up in polls — but he may blow it

Amanda Marcotte
After her primary care doctor retired in 2020, Anne Withrow, a trans woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sought care at Truman Health Services, a clinic specializing in transgender health care at the University of New Mexico. “They said, ‘We have a waiting list.’ A year later they still had a waiting list,” she said. She was eventually seen at a local community-based health center instead. (CECILIA NOWELL FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Transgender refugees flock to New Mexico

Cecilia Nowell - KFF Health News
Prescription drugs on a silver platter (Getty images/Rubberball/Mike Kemp)

Ready for bespoke doctor visits?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tired healthcare worker sitting on the floor (Getty Images/bymuratdeniz)

Doctors with long COVID feel left behind

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman looking through bills and receipts (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

Many workplaces lack abortion access

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Pfizer's Paxlovid is displayed on July 07, 2022 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Pfizer doubling cost of Paxlovid

Matthew Rozsa
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Allow midwives to save lives in Alabama

Stephanie Mitchell, Avital Norman Nathman
Palestinians injured due to Israeli airstrikes are brought to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Oct. 14, 2023. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza hospitals close to collapse

Andrew O'Hehir
Man ill with flu in office (Getty Images/Harbucks)

Where California is "behind the curve"

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kaiser health care workers on strike

Michael McQuarrie - The Conversation
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

N.J. nurses strike gets heated

Bob Hennelly - Work-Bites
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Maui wildfires strain health care system

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Kristin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. These days she drives across the border to work in rural Minnesota. “I want to practice medicine here,” she says, “but first we have to get rid of this law.” (Sarah Varney/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

1849 law restricting women's health care

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
Respiratory syncytial virus RSV vaccine vial with syringe and stethoscope (Getty Images/Manjurul)

FDA approves RSV shot for infants

Nicole Karlis
An armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officer escorts a condemned inamte at San Quentin State Prison's death row. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

California improving prisoner healthcare

Don Thompson - KFF Health News
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Heat this summer will cost $1 billion

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Stethscope on pile of US banknotes (PhotoAlto/Odilon Dimier via Getty Images)

Against crowdfunding for medical debt

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
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