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Kaiser Health News

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

Abortion clinics in conservative-led states face increasing legal threats

By Kaiser Health News ● Features ● April 12, 2023 April 17, 2023

Thirty years ago, Blue Mountain Clinic Director Willa Craig stood in front of the sagging roof and broken windows of an abortion clinic that an arsonist had burned down early that morning in Missoula, Montana.

Transgender people in rural America struggle to find doctors willing or able to provide care

By Kaiser Health News ● Features ● January 29, 2023 April 13, 2023

One in 3 trans people in rural areas experienced discrimination by a health care provider in the year leading up to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Report.

As STDs proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable?

By Kaiser Health News ● National ● November 19, 2022 April 13, 2023

Among the more remarkable legacies of the covid-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis.

Embedded Bias: How medical records sow discrimination

By Kaiser Health News ● Features ● September 26, 2022 April 13, 2023

Discrimination in health care is “the secret, or silent, poison that taints interactions between providers and patients before, during, after the medical encounter,” said Dayna Bowen Matthew, dean of George Washington University’s law school and an expert in civil rights law and disparities in health care.

Medical coding creates barriers to care for transgender patients

By Kaiser Health News ● Features ● September 14, 2022 April 13, 2023

Last year, Tim Chevalier received the first of many coverage denials from his insurance company for the hair removal procedure he needed as part of a phalloplasty, the creation of a penis.