KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

A GOP tax-and-spending bill the House approved Thursday would slash federal Medicaid reimbursement for states that offer ...

The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.

As St. Louis deals with more than $1.6 billion in estimated property damage from the May 16 tornado, locals are pouring in to ...

While charitable dollars have flowed in to plug some gaps, “philanthropy cannot replace federal funding,” said Dustin Sposato ...

Artificial intelligence products with lifelike voices are being marketed to schedule or cancel medical visits, refill ...

President Donald Trump’s budget office says he’ll continue to fund the new 988 suicide prevention hotline, but documents sent ...

More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small ...

South Carolina Medicaid approved a class of medications known as GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state ...

Studies have found that emulsifiers can alter the mix of bacteria in the gut, known as the microbiome or microbiota; damage ...

Public health experts and advocates say that Health and Human Services regional offices, like the one in New York City, form ...

One year ago, Congressman Donald Payne Jr. died while waiting for a kidney. He had planned to lead the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), bipartisan legislation that would save 100,000 lives and ...