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Liz Szabo

Liz Szabo

Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News' senior correspondent, is an enterprise reporter who focuses on the quality of patient care and has covered medicine for two decades. Her stories about cancer and overtreatment for KHN have won numerous awards, including first place in the National Headliner Awards. She also was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb and NIHCM (National Institute for Health Care Management) awards. Before coming to KHN, Szabo covered medicine for USA Today for nearly 13 years.

The number of children under 18 who killed someone with a firearm jumped from 836 in 2019 to 1,150 in 2020. (Illustration by Oona Tempest/KHN)

Pandemic Stress, Gangs, and Utter Fear Fueled a Rise in Teen Shootings
By: - March 13, 2023

Diego never imagined he’d carry a gun. Not as a child, when shots were fired outside his Chicago-area home. Not at age 12, when one of his friends was gunned down. Diego’s mind changed at 14, when he and his friends were getting ready to walk to midnight Mass for the feast of Our Lady […]

CVS’ at-home tests that screen for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections can be bought in stores and online. The kit is priced at $99.99. (Photo by Eric Harkleroad/KHN)

As STDs Proliferate, Companies Rush to Market At-Home Test Kits. But Are They Reliable?
By: - November 28, 2022

Among the more remarkable legacies of the covid-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis. But that fast-track focus is missing from another, less publicized epidemic: an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases that can cause chronic […]

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