Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

News

Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: December 12, 2022

The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation in the fall of 2022 is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hos...

News

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

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: November 22, 2022

The FDA wants companies to prove that home collection kits are as accurate as those used in clinics, and that samples don’t degrade during shipping...

News

Why pregnant people were left behind while vaccines moved at ‘warp speed’ to help the masses

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: February 25, 2022

A growing number of women’s health researchers and advocates say that excluding pregnant people – and the months-long delay in ...

News

Doctors more likely to prescribe opioids to COVID ‘long-haulers,’ raising addiction fears

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: April 29, 2021

The new study “suggests to me that many clinicians still don’t get it,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny.

News

Inside the flawed White House testing scheme that did not protect Trump

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: October 5, 2020

An early antigen test used by the White House was woefully inaccurate. But the new antigen test the White House is using has not been independently...

News

Signs of an ‘October vaccine surprise’ alarm career scientists

Author:: Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: September 22, 2020

If the executive branch were to overrule the FDA’s scientific judgment, a vaccine of limited efficacy and, worse, unknown side effects could be rus...