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Food bank shortages caused by high demand and cuts to federal aid programs have some residents of a small community that straddles Idaho and...

Carmen Aiken of Chicago made an appointment for an annual physical exam in July 2023, planning to get checked out and complete some blood wo...

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory....

The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to c...

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and n...

Hospitals have spent years amassing political influence at the federal and state levels. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, hospitals a...

When the Trump administration cut more than $11 billion in covid-era funds to states in late March, addiction recovery programs suffered swi...

The HostJulie RovnerKFF Health News@jrovner Read Julie's stories....

He’s 17 and lives in the Chicago suburbs. He loves theater and recently helped direct a play at his high school. He takes competitive AP cou...

Mientras la epidemia de sarampión más grave en una década ha causado la muerte de dos niños y se ha extendido a 27 estados sin dar señales d...

While the most serious measles epidemic in a decade has led to the deaths of two children and spread to 27 states with no signs of letting u...

Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff s...

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then yo...

During his first news conference as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 16 ticked off things he thinks kids...

Supporters of a nontraditional medical freedom movement who’ve placed their faith in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy J...

PBS News Weekend’s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF Health News contributor Michelle Andrews about what some people with missing limbs consider a di...

The HostEmmarie HuettemanKFF Health NewsEmmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washin...

After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make America Healthy Agai...

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years. She...

SILVERTHORNE, Colorado. — Cuando Adolfo Román García-Ramírez camina a casa por la noche después de su turno en un mercado en este pueblo mon...

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow....

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and national public health correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed the impact of fede...

Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say th...

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988....