Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News
As demand for mental health care spikes in the West, budget ax is set to strike
Some cuts to Colorado's mental health budgets have been restored, but providers still are worried.
One in 8 Americans lives in a community that has lost its local public health department leader during the pandemic.
181 public health employees, including at least 14 in Colorado, have left jobs as the typically invisible army charged with preventing the spread of infectious diseases has become a public punching bag.
Contact tracing in Colorado immigrant communities is most effective with voices from within
Long-standing health care disparities, job insecurity, immigration status, language barriers and a profound distrust of government all complicate the already tricky task
Why do South Asians have a higher risk of heart disease?
South Asians account for 60% of all heart disease cases worldwide. One of them was Sharad Acharya of Broomfield, who needed triple bypass surgery and seven stents to stay alive.
Aspen, other ski towns thought coronavirus anitbody tests would help them reopen. Instead they caused confusion.
Now, amid concerns about their unreliability, many testing programs have been scaled back or put on hold
Centura Health sets off national challenge to aid-in-dying laws after firing a Colorado doctor
A growing number of state aid-in-dying provisions are coming into conflict with faith-based hospitals, which oppose the practice on religious grounds
