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

Native Hawaiians will have to comply with the new work requirements in President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful ...

The true cost of “vertical integration”: patients directed to a higher-priced location for procedures. Or forced to buy from ...

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump can’t unilaterally kill the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act, but he also sided with the administration by saying using race as a factor in awarding ...

When she returned to the house she shares with her niece, she couldn’t walk without assistance. “I still don’t dare go up and down stairs unless someone is with me,” said Wood, 93. That has redefined ...

The nation’s uninsured rate hit a historical low when Xavier Becerra was health secretary. Now he wants to be California’s ...

On Tuesday, the city released about 170,000 pages of documents related to air quality after the destruction of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined to give the ...

The people of Troy, New York, united to challenge a national Catholic health system determined to close the last birthing ...

Michael Davis at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Karim Mikhail at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; and Bret Koplow at the Center for Tobacco Products. Jared Seehafer will ...

Last year, Stephanie Halver’s primary care doctor consulted a risk assessment tool to calculate her chances of one day developing breast cancer. Halver, now 43, remembered the likelihood “popped up ...

Senate and House Democrats say the Trump administration’s plan to collect patients’ medical data violates privacy and will discourage people from seeking medical care.

A Catholic mother in New York had argued that her faith forbids her to accept vaccines for herself or her son. “Vaccination injects biological material derived from unclean sources directly into the ...