KFF Health News and California Healthline staffers made the rounds on national and local media in the last couple of weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances. Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Race and Health, Disparities, Guns, Indigenous Health, Opioid Settlements, Opioids, Surprise Bills KFF Health News
KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Bram Sable-Smith and KCUR investigative reporter Peggy Lowe discussed removing bullets from bodies on KCUR’s “Up To Date” on May 14.
Click here to hear Sable-Smith and Lowe on “Up To Date”
Read Sable-Smith and Lowe’s “Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies”
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed how tribal opioid settlement funds are being used on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” on May 12.
Click here to hear Pattani on “Weekend Edition”
Read Pattani’s “Tribal Nations Invest Opioid Settlement Funds in Traditional Healing To Treat Addiction,” with reporting by KFF Health News Nevada correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
KFF Health News senior South Carolina correspondent Lauren Sausser discussed genetic diversity in research on the “America’s Heroes Group” podcast on May 11.
Click here to hear Sausser on “America’s Heroes Group”
Read Sausser’s “Genetics Studies Have a Diversity Problem That Researchers Struggle To Fix”
KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed sunscreen safety on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on May 10.
Click here to hear Miller on “The Georgia Health Report”
Read contributor Michael Scaturro’s “What’s Keeping the US From Allowing Better Sunscreens?”
KFF Health News correspondent Molly Castle Work discussed a surprise air-ambulance bill on NBC News 9 on May 10.
Click here to hear Castle Work on NBC News 9
Read Castle Work’s “A Mom’s $97,000 Question: How Was Her Baby’s Air-Ambulance Ride Not Medically Necessary?”
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