In a Q&A, KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder unpacks the "Make America Healthy Again" platform ...

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss ...

Leaders in the scientific community, biopharma world, and veterans of the federal health agencies provide wide-ranging reactions to the news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be nominated as the ...

KFF Health News senior correspondents Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam discuss how government decisions undermine Black ...

Pregnant women are being asked to make large cash payments months before they deliver their babies. Some patient advocates ...

As federal health scientists await a potential takeover by RFK Jr. and other medical skeptics in the second Trump ...

California health officials began providing protective clothing to farmworkers months before the state’s first bird flu ...

The child tax credit passed by Congress at the height of covid has expired, but states and localities are trying to fill the ...

With the arrival in California of dengue, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease present mainly in more tropical climates, public ...

Collins, a Republican and a previous lawyer for Donald Trump, would take charge of the VA and its massive health care programs. Collins is a chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserve Command.

Meta will appeal court rulings over "addictive" social media apps; a school event in Missouri is linked to an E. coli outbreak; an abortion clinic "buffer zone" is challenged in Illinois; and more.

In other news: a dramatic increase in obesity rates; standing desks may not actually be a healthier choice; laughter is effective in combating dry eye disease; and more.