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Indiana residents and federal officials are urging state health regulators to stop two rival hospitals in Terre Haute from merging. The dea...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital...

BOISE, Idaho — Physicians are expected to take the stand in Idaho’s capital on Tuesday to argue that the state’s near-total prohibition o...

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

In March, newly installed Social Security chief Martin O’Malley criticized agency “injustices” that “shock our shared sense of equity and g...

KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed the Trump presidency and health care on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Nov. 8....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the no...

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government,...

In April, just 12 weeks into her pregnancy, Kathleen Clark was standing at the receptionist window of her OB-GYN’s office when she was aske...

Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California public health officials are dipping into state and federal stockpiles to equip up to 10,000 farmworkers wit...

If you bring a baby into the Hurley Children’s Center clinic in downtown Flint, Michigan, Mona Hanna will find you. The pediatrician, who g...

For Native American communities in the Great Plains, data paints a clear picture of the devastation caused by an ongoing syphilis outbreak....

Meet Holden Karau: a San Francisco Bay Area software engineer who created an AI tool to help appeal insurance denials. He...

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that pro...

Este año, California ha dado el último paso para abrir el Medi-Cal, su programa de Medicaid, a todos los residentes que reúnan los requisit...

KFF Health News has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to compel it to release a range of Me...

Health researchers are noticing a growing problem in American pregnancies: more cases of blood pressure so high it can be deadly for the pa...

Jason Farned and his team at the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District had spent years preparing for the likely arrival o...

Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon, have an understanding. Every morning, she check...

Voters in three states — Arizona, Missouri, and Nevada — chose on Tuesday to advance protections for abortion rights in their state constit...

Voters in Missouri and Nebraska approved ballot measures Tuesday that guarantee paid leave for sick workers. Alaska voters seem p...

A new federal watchdog audit is ratcheting up pressure on government officials to crack down on billions of dollars in overcharges linked t...

California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration st...

Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday, including in Missouri, among the first...