NC Health News

MARCH 23, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop.

Maternal and Child Health 52

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KFF Health News

MARCH 10, 2025

Shea, one of 1,310 people who responded to a poll the health policy research group KFF conducted on health care priorities, said he assumes the FDA is making sure the ingredients are safe. KFF Health News asked nine of the largest food manufacturers The Coca-Cola Co., In many cases, it is not. Kennedy Jr.,

Food and Beverage Industry 115

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 13, 2025

Shea, one of 1,310 people who responded to a poll the health policy research group KFF conducted on health care priorities, said he assumes the FDA is making sure the ingredients are safe. KFF Health News asked nine of the largest food manufacturers The Coca-Cola Co., In many cases, it is not. Kennedy Jr.,

Food and Beverage Industry 68

Food and Beverage Industry Food Security and Safety Environmental Health and Safety Public Health Law and Regulation 68

NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isnt the full picture. In North Carolina, 37 percent of births are covered by Medicaid, according to KFF, a nonprofit that analyzes health policy.

Maternal and Child Health 96

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 17, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating junk food, fast food, and ultra-processed food. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. Now attitudes are changing. Kennedy Jr.,

Health Policy 95

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 28, 2025

an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. For decades , Kennedy has advocated for health-related ideas that are scientifically disproven or controversial. Kennedy Jr.,

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations 116

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 28, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system.

Public Health Law and Regulation 85

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