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• Listen: Nation’s Capital Cuts Traffic Deaths as Rates Rise Across US (2025/12/03 10:00)

  National traffic deaths are higher than they were a decade ago, despite safety initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels. But recently that trajectory has changed in Washington, D.C., itself.
• Trump Wants Americans To Make More Babies. Critics Say His Policies Won’t Help Raise Them. (2025/12/03 10:00)

  The administration’s embrace of the pronatalist movement often doesn’t include support for programs traditionally associated with the health and well-being of women, children, and families.
• Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’ (2025/12/02 15:00)

  The "KFF Health News Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from our newsroom to the airwaves each week.
• RFK Jr. Wants To Delay the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Here’s What Parents Need To Know. (2025/12/02 10:00)

  A CDC panel is reconsidering the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Renewed doubt could lead to fewer kids getting vaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to an incurable, preventable virus that can be acquired by indirect contact with infected blood.
• Feds Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ but Are Withholding Rural Health Fund Applications (2025/12/02 10:00)

  Proposals from states that have shared their applications to a new $50 billion rural health program include using drones to deliver medication, installing refrigerators to expand access to healthy produce, and bringing telehealth to libraries, day cares, and senior centers.
• They Need a Ventilator To Stay Alive. Getting One Can Be a Nightmare. (2025/12/02 10:00)

  Few nursing homes are set up to care for people needing help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS or other infirmities. Insurers often resist paying for ventilators at home, and innovative programs are now endangered by Medicaid cuts.
• New Work Requirement Adds Red Tape to Missouri’s Snarled Food Aid System (2025/12/01 10:00)

  Under Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, states must shoulder more of the administrative and cost burdens of the food aid program SNAP, which helps feed 42 million Americans.
• South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation (2025/11/26 10:00)

  When a measles outbreak emerged in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in October, health officials announced that most cases were tied to one public charter school, where only 17% of the 605 students enrolled during the 2024-25 academic year provided documentation showing they had received their required vaccinations.