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Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the cause and tried to ign...

Three Democratic senators asked the country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog on Tuesday to investigate the costs of a Georgia program t...

Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, as a policy advo...

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with on...

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while...

SACRAMENTO, California — Un número creciente de personas —muchas de ellas mayores y sin hogar— están muriendo de frío durante el invierno....

California’s controversial experiment to order mental illness and drug treatment for some of its sickest residents is rolling out statewide,...

KFF Health News’ “Navigating Aging” columnist, Judith Graham, spent six months this year talking to older adults who live alone by choice or...

Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San...

A former Montana health department staffer who described himself as the lead author of legislation to scrutinize nonprofit hospitals’ chari...

Un juez federal en Dakota del Norte falló a favor de 19 estados que impugnaron una regla de la administración Biden que permite —por primer...

A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled in favor of 19 states that challenged a Biden administration rule allowing — for the first time —...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)spent years complaining that the Biden administration was slow-walking federal approval of his plan to import...

Eloisa Mendoza has spent 18 years helping people who aren’t fluent in English navigate complex legal documents. She guides them through str...

“The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Veron...

Jeff Kromrey, de 69 años, se sentará con su hija la próxima vez que lo visite y le enseñará cómo acceder a sus cuentas en Internet en caso...

Veteran California public servant Will Lightbourne has stepped in as interim executive director of the state’s mental health commission aft...

Jeff Kromrey, 69, will sit down with his daughter the next time she visits and show her how to access his online accounts if he has an unex...

KFF Health News senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed the fragility of our vaccine infrastructure on The Atlantic’s “Radio Atlant...

In recent decades, the Justice Department has sued several states for unnecessarily confining people with disabilities in places such as st...

The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccin...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Jerry Qualls had a heart attack in 2022 and was rushed by ambulance to Holston Valley Medical Center, where he was hospi...

In 2017, the Republicans who controlled Congress tried mightily to slash federal spending on Medicaid, the government-funded health program...

ATLANTA — Deegant Adhvaryu completed his parents’ applications for Medicaid and food benefits in June. Then the waiting and frustration beg...

With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid e...