Kim Krisberg
Contributing Wirter at The Nation's Health
Freelance Health and Science Reporter at Freelance
Journalist at Public Health Watch
Public health journalist. Words: @pubhealthwatch, @nationshealth, @NPR, @TexasTribune, @TexasObserver, @PublicHealthMag. Love Molly Ivins. Retweet≠endorsement.
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3 weeks ago |
thenationshealth.org | Kim Krisberg
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3 weeks ago |
thenationshealth.org | Kim Krisberg
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1 month ago |
texastribune.org | Kim Krisberg
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. HOUSTON — Almost 1 million Texas children and teens went without health insurance at some point over the most recent year recorded.
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2 months ago |
thenationshealth.org | Kim Krisberg
U.S. life expectancy, which dipped during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, is ticking back up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. In December, the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics released “Mortality in the United States, 2023,” which found life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years in 2023, up from 77.5 years in 2022.
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2 months ago |
thenationshealth.org | Kim Krisberg
Public health faces a tough funding climate in Congress this year, especially under a presidential administration with a history of supporting large funding cuts for key health agencies. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies frequently landed on the chopping block. In 2017, his White House budget proposed cutting funds for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by 17%, or $1.2 billion.
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