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A pair of elderly couples view the ocean and waves along the beach.

Rethinking Insurance for an Aging Population

by Maya Fransz-Myers, David Knapp, Jinkook Lee

Instead of patchwork policy and inaction, the United States needs a national program for long-term care

Poverty
Respiratory therapist Annette James wears personal protective equipment as she prepares to see a patient at Medical Arts Hospital in Lamesa, Texas, United States, on December 17, 2020.

Texas’s Persistent Problem

by Ashley Nies

Understanding why gaps in Texas’s Medicaid coverage persist

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?