By: Bram Sable-Smith, Wisconsin Public Radio When her doorbell rang Sunday night, Blanche Jordan was just starting a new Game of Thrones puzzle on her living room floor. Jordan, 39,…
Laura Ungar Dr. Jessica Kiss’ twin girls cry most mornings when she goes to work. They’re 9, old enough to know she could catch the coronavirus from her patients and…
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News As a hospice nurse in Seattle, Diane Speer said giving out hugs to patients and family members was a routine part of home visits. But…
Judith Graham She knew it wasn’t a good idea and her daughter would disapprove. Nonetheless, Barbara Figge Fox, 79, recently went to four stores in Princeton, New Jersey, to shop…
Lauren Weber Rural hospitals may not be able to keep their doors open as the coronavirus pandemic saps their cash, their CEOs warn, just as communities most need them. As…
Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News With nursing home residents at particular risk in the coronavirus pandemic, residents and their families and friends can discover…
By: Will Stone She was in medical school. He was just out of prison. Sarah Ziegenhorn and Andy Beeler’s romance grew out of a shared passion to do more about…
Sydney Lupkin, NPR News Dr. Sudeep Taksali, an orthopedic surgeon, became worried that his 8-year-old daughter had already grown taller than his 12-year-old son. And sometimes she had an attitude…
Judith Graham Do I know I’m at risk for developing dementia? You bet. My father died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 72; my sister was felled by frontotemporal dementia at…
Some boomers are on multiple medications. Combinations of those drugs could have serious side effects. Getty Images / Sporrer/Rupp Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia Baby boomers – that’s anyone born…
Within the next decade, millions of seniors will be shopping for new housing. Getty Images / Elizabeth W. Kearley Lindsay J. Peterson, University of South Florida and Kathryn Hyer, University…
By: Bernard J. Wolfson Pattie Vargas saw with frightening clarity that her son Joel, 25 at the time, had a life-threatening drug problem. He came home one day in 2007…
By: Judith Graham Craig Holly was determined to fight when the home health agency caring for his wife decided to cut off services Jan. 18. The reason he was given…
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Joshua Bates knew something was seriously wrong. He had a high fever, could barely move and felt a sharp pain in his stomach every time…
By JoNel Aleccia Photos by Heidi de Marco GOLDEN, Colo. ― The call came the last week of September, when Neil Mahoney could still stagger from his bed to the…
Social campaigns to address the obesity crisis in America are failing. Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Dana Goldman, University of Southern California The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have…
Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News There’s a deadly virus spreading from state to state. It preys on the most vulnerable, striking the sick and the old without mercy. In just…
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Photo by Heidi de Marco ITHACA, N.Y. — When she worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, long before cellphone calculators,…
