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Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in sec...

Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious probl...

As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla,...

A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes, even though many homes lack enough workers...

April 3Katheryn Houghton reads this week’s news: The Trump administration may stop using a “Housing First” approach to ending homelessne...

Christopher Julian’s opioid journey is familiar to many Americans.He was prescribed painkillers as a teenager for a series of sports inj...

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burn...

Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will sl...

Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills...

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has made combating fraud a centerpiece of his administration. Trump has said he w...

LISTEN: KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan spoke with federal employees who say mass government layoffs are affecting their menta...

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Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget.In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in t...

Five years ago, the CEO of one of the largest pain clinic companies in the Southeast was sentenced to more than three years in prison after...

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KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed how mental health therapists are finding it difficult to work with insurance co...

Is homelessness a mental health and addiction crisis, or is it driven by an affordable housing crisis? That question underpins the debate am...

Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo was in pain from a femur surgery t...

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In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have fo...

HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance use and medical conditions that...

PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a...

BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s firs...