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Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretch...

Medicaid is under threat — again.Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the...

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opio...

In October, Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya hosted a conference on the lessons of covid-19 in order “to do better in the next...

When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infectio...

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the p...

KFF Health News contributor Sarah Boden discussed cats and bird flu on KVPR’s “Central Valley Daily” on Feb. 12. Click here to hear Bod...

Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles are celebrating their team’s Super Bowl victory with a parade today. They beat the Kansas City Chiefs, which...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, sor...

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees...

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In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 mill...

HAVANA, Fla. — For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for th...

For more than a decade, Kaiser Permanente has been under the microscope for shortcomings in mental health care, even as it is held in high e...

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly said that restricting abortion access at the national level would not be a priority in a seco...

Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released from a Texas pri...

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Citando las cientos de vidas que se pierden cada año por el calor extremo, funcionarios del área de vivienda de California están instando a...

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration is reviving efforts to do away with a panel that hears appeals from people who were denied publ...

Citing the hundreds of lives lost to extreme heat each year, California state housing officials are urging lawmakers to set residential cool...

SUITLAND, Md. — At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of customers loaded clothes into washers and dryer...

SALINAS, California. — Este valle costero, que se hizo famoso gracias al novelista John Steinbeck, a veces se conoce cariñosamente como “la...

Gloria Sachdev has spent years challenging the health care industry, trying to bring down the high cost of care.It’s working,...

WALHALLA, S.C. — Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a small primary care clinic run by Clemson University draws patients...