Skip to main content

Kaiser Health News

Articles From This Author

Little Shell Tribe opens health care clinic. (Photo by Great Falls Tribune)
News

‘Heart’ of Little Shell

By Kaiser Health News
Maria Vega, a member of Montana’s Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, was jailed in 2015 after a suicide attempt. Vega is now part of a group of tribal members, academics and policy experts proposing alternatives to the policy of jailing people who try to kill themselves. The policy was created in 2010 because of a lack of mental health resources on the reservation. (Sara Reardon for KHN)
News

Tribes want to stop jailing people for suicide attempts

By Kaiser Health News
Cherokee Nation citizen Betty Frogg receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020. The Cherokee Nation dedicated early coronavirus vaccines to front-line health care workers and Cherokee language speakers. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)
News

Racial disparities persist in vaccinations

By Kaiser Health News
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
News

Coronavirus deranges the immune system in complex, deadly ways

By Kaiser Health News
"Free testing ... fast and easy.. don’t even have to get your of the car" on May 30, 2020. (Montana Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians via Facebook)
News

Montana tribe fast-tracks its health service debut

By Kaiser Health News
49825618561_038228e35b_b
News

Expecting too much, too soon: 'Everyone thinks COVID-19 will go away with a vaccine'

By Kaiser Health News
Navajo health workers and sisters Corrina and Cheryl Thinn died weeks apart of COVID-19 in April. (The Thinn family, Kaiser Health News)
Obituaries

Two Navajo sisters who were inseparable died of COVID just weeks apart

By Kaiser Health News
Repeal of Affordable Care Act: A sign at the Alaska Native Medical Center (Indian Country Today file photo)
Coronavirus

Pandemic is scaring people with serious ailments away from ERs

By Kaiser Health News
Though racial minorities, older people and those with underlying medical conditions are most at risk from COVID-19, they’ve historically been the least likely to be included in clinical trials for treatments for serious diseases. (Lynne Shallcross/KHN illustration; Getty Images)
News

Will vaccine trials reflect America’s diversity?

By Kaiser Health News
In this Thursday, May 28, 2020 file photo, a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is adorned with tributes to victims of COVID-19 in New York. The memorial is part of the Naming the Lost project which attempts to humanize the victims who are often just listed as statistics. The wall features banners that say "Naming the Lost" in six languages — English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Bengali. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
News

US 'failed' to invest in public health

By Kaiser Health News
Ninepipe National Wildlife Reserve in Charlo, Montana. The reserve is located in the lands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Nation. (Indian Country Today photo)
News

As Montana opens for tourism ... tribes take a different course based on the value of elders

By Kaiser Health News
More than 884 million homes in the world do not have this or even clean water for drinking.
Coronavirus

Millions lack plumbing, space to stay safe

By Kaiser Health News
shutterstock_1687258876
Coronavirus

Heroes 'at a time of great uncertainty'

By Kaiser Health News
shutterstock_1689910858
Coronavirus

'Who gets the ventilator?'

By Kaiser Health News
Empty shelves image by Wesley Tingey
Coronavirus

As the country disinfects, diabetes patients can’t find rubbing alcohol

By Kaiser Health News
AP_20090822988436
Coronavirus

Whole new ballgame? About those Abbott Labs coronavirus tests

By Kaiser Health News
hcp-gloves
Coronavirus

'We should plan assuming we won’t have enough PPE'

By Kaiser Health News
Outside

The disappearing health taxes

By Kaiser Health News
Outside

No power? No medicine.

By Kaiser Health News
Pictured: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kirsten Gillibrand, 'Medicare For All' press conference September 13, 2017.
Outside

Beyond candidates' catch phrases ... are the other healthcare debates

By Kaiser Health News
climatechange01
News

Climate change called 'the greatest health challenge of the 21st century'

By Kaiser Health News
24187992-00D4-4F46-BF0A-BF14334B75FF
News

Will the Affordable Care Act really go away?

By Kaiser Health News
courtroom2_6x4
News

Appeals court considers constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act

By Kaiser Health News
GettyImages-1050519994_docwithpatient_1350
News

American Medical Association sues North Dakota over its anti-abortion legislation

By Kaiser Health News
Naito2_1350
News

Breaking bad news: How a doctor tells a patient 'you are dying'

By Kaiser Health News