Amid public forums and local cries for help, states are also talking with large health systems, technology companies, and ...

The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider common health ailments, including obesity and diabetes, when ...

A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had covid-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these ...

This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal ...

Federal health authorities have taken the "unprecedented" step of instructing states to investigate certain individuals on ...

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has been reversing decades of accepted public health practice in Florida and embracing untested therapies. “We’re done with fear,” he said after being named ...

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled ...

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many ...

The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ ...

Antoinette, a refugee who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, is bracing for the loss of her federal food benefits. “How am I going to manage?” she worries. (Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News) ...