Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia — states with some of the worst health outcomes — also have some of the highest ...

Meanwhile: Medicare Advantage enrollees aren't seeing expected savings on supplemental care; Inflation Reduction Act's annual prescription cap will provide significant savings; Georgia wants to change ...

Food safety advocates, who had urged the ban for decades, do not anticipate difficulties in the transition and hope this will lead to more bans on synthetic dyes. Also in public health news: baby ...

The disaster has again disrupted the education and nutrition of thousands of children. In Pasadena alone, five school sites were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving 14,000 students with no clear ...

National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign Friday. The Hill reports that while the agency has typically held bipartisan support, residual Republican dissatisfaction over the ...

Roll Call reports that the newly finalized rule will allow for health care providers who have not seen a patient in person to prescribe six months’ worth of buprenorphine via telehealth. Also in ...

Our "Navigating Aging" columnist sets off on a new phase in life with lessons she’s learned reporting on aging and health.

Republicans in Washington are working on plans to shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance ...

Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on ...

The physical hazards of construction work have long been a focus of safety professionals. Yet attention on the psychosocial ...

More medical schools say they will no longer charge tuition, in hopes that more students, graduating free of debt, will ...

This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Small interventions at the doctor’s office, such as removing a splinter, can be billed as surgeries, and billing problems with the Indian Health Service are ...