An experiment to provide meals to some Medicaid recipients shows food can be cost-effective medicine. But even as federal officials tout the power of nutrition, Medicaid budget cuts could lead states ...

California is crafting weaker heat protections for prisons than other workplaces, citing billions in costs to cool aging ...

Not all older people need benzodiazepines, antibiotics, or daily aspirin — and taking them can carry increased risks.

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

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tapped five medical specialists to serve on the panel that decides what preventive services health insurers are required to cover. Past members were clinicians ...

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

As state governments grapple with how to determine who’s sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some ...

Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state. This ...

Officials at CHOP said they’re working to give all infants in the neonatal intensive care unit a preventative antibody treatment to help protect them from measles, WHYY reported. The potential ...

States are spending rural health dollars on tech startups, betting that untested companies will succeed where doctors have vanished and hospitals have collapsed. Louisiana’s call for innovative ...