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Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn’t have long to live....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday about President Donald Tru...

It has been nearly eight years since Sen. John McCain’s middle-of-the-night thumbs-down vote torpedoed Republican efforts to repeal the Affo...

BRANCHLAND, W.Va. — Ada Carol Adkins lives with her two dogs in a trailer tucked into the timbers off Upper Mud River Road.“I’m comforta...

SACRAMENTO, California — El gobernador Gavin Newsom no esperaba enfrentarse a otra crisis sanitaria.En marzo, mientras...

LISTEN: KFF Health News correspondent Cara Anthony appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” segment on May 7 to share her reporting on community effo...

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KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed funding cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services on CBS New...

In his first term, President Donald Trump promised to end America’s HIV epidemic — and he put the resources of the federal government behind...

A prime example of elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting her father in his assisted living apartment in Roseville, California. An aide who wa...

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The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave transparency, accountabi...

PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top...

In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, he vowed...

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people....

Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorne...

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani gave an update on how Ohio is using its opioid settlement funds on WOSU Public Media’s “A...

The FDA has rehired at least some workers tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities, two employee...

Republicans have long pushed to force working-age adults enrolled in Medicaid to show they are, in fact, working. Party members argue Me...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s frayed behavioral health care system, still recovering from the effects of past budget cuts, will get a shot in th...

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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...