Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and older adults are at higher risk. But only ...

Health and Human Services is looking for panelists who are "physicians, scientists, members of parent organizations concerned with immunizations," and other public health officials to fill the ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are trying to reduce maternal deaths and complications after pregnancies using one small tool: a silicone wristband stamped with the declaration “I Gave Birth.” This story ...

Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome ...

Drug test strips are credited with saving lives, but a new policy will limit how funds can be used for them. Advocates of harm reduction strategies who responded to a mass overdose in Baltimore say ...

Tens of thousands of organizations that rely on federal funding must now justify each transaction they make before spending is approved. That longer process is leading to a backlog of requests, such ...

The decision not to hear an appeal from abortion opponents lets a law stand that allows local governments to create demonstration-free areas around health care facilities. More abortion news comes ...

More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. This story ...

As Stat reported, companies that want to add a new substance to human or animal foods will need to notify the FDA and explain how they deemed the additive “generally recognized as safe," or GRAS. Also ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the episode made him "more determined than ever to fight alongside you to make health care a human right." The heart attack is likely to heighten scrutiny on age in a ...

A century-old rural Michigan hospital converted to a stripped-down model Congress created to help keep small facilities ...

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