Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on weight loss, syphilis, mental health, ...

Editorial writers discuss telemedicine, AI in health care, bird flu, and more.

Peripheral intravenous catheters are commonly used for hospital inpatients, but the WHO wants to improve poor practices in insertion and maintenance that can cause infections. Also in the news: ...

Elsewhere, a mobile app has been recalled after patients with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps unexpectedly stopped working. Also in the news: how muscle guarding, loneliness, and ...

CNN covers improvements in deep brain stimulation treatments. Also, an experimental spinal cord implant helped a patient with Parkinson's disease to walk. A gene therapy trial that allowed a baby born ...

Report writers examining Medicaid review processes wrote that Florida was one of the states prioritizing "hasty" removal of kids from support programs. Also in the news: a slowdown in deadly overdoses ...

Although the risk to humans is still low, a proactive stance—incorporating protective gear, research, and vaccine readiness—could stem the spread of the virus afflicting mainly poultry and cattle.

Meanwhile, infectious disease experts are monitoring the newest covid variant — known as FLiRT — as concerns grow over a summer uptick in cases.

New York City only provides in vitro fertilization benefits to employees who are women or heterosexuals. A first-of-its-kind class-action lawsuit alleges that policy is discriminatory to gay men. The ...

The measure blocks Medicaid reimbursements to health centers affiliated to abortion providers, which the Missouri Independent notes will impact Planned Parenthood's health services to low-income ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, says reforms at the federal health agency are "overdue." Separately, an NIH official will appear later this month before the Select Subcommittee on the ...

News outlets report that patients of some of hospital chain Ascension's facilities have had procedures delayed or been diverted to other hospitals. Doctors have also lost access to some records.