Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints ...

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings.

The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular ...

Health workers and researchers say an HIV outbreak in West Virginia that three years ago was called “the most concerning” in ...

A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics ...

The generation that faced discrimination, ostracism, and the AIDS epidemic now faces old age. Many struggle with isolation ...

In the seventh year of KFF Health News’ “Bill of the Month” series, patients shared their most perplexing, vexing, and ...

Federal health officials over the past year, apparently chastened by accusations of sometimes inflating the risks from covid-19, have too often swung to the opposite extreme, minimizing hazards from ...

Meanwhile, increased rates of cancer in the under 50 crowd may be caused by gut issues; certain foods, including licorice, may help covid patients; Neumora Therapeutics depression treatment fails ...

The lawsuit was brought against the FDA after the agency declared an end to the shortage that allowed pharmacies to sell compound versions of the popular weight loss drugs, but Eli Lilly said it ...

The Medicare-Medicaid program provides health care services, meals, and social interaction for older adults. Habitat Health also plans to open a facility in Los Angeles in 2026. More news comes from ...

Many laws have been put in place to protect individuals' reproductive health data and to keep it from being used to incriminate patients or target providers. Reuters explores the concern about the use ...