KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Congressional Republicans are pushing plans that could make deep cuts to Medicaid to finance President Donald Trump’s tax ...

Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccination rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations ...

Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low ...

In other state news, Florida Democrats have filed legislation to reverse the six-week abortion ban; the Colorado House passes a bill to protect patients from forced institutionalization; New York Gov.

Pain MD, which once ran as many as 20 clinics across three states, gave chronic-pain patients about 700,000 total injections ...

Jay Bhattacharya, nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health, opposed most covid mandates. Without an honest public ...

Some experts point to the broader availability of naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Even so, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington saw an increase in overdose deaths in 2023. More news is on gene therapy ...

Covid hospitalizations were not significantly reduced when adults used the antiviral pill, researchers find. Also, a nationwide study suggests estrogen may play a role in long covid, putting women at ...

The Baltimore Sun reports on the unusual defense strategy being mounted by his lawyers. Other industry news includes: a health insurance fraud case; the effect of high specialist fees on health care ...

States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are ...

The directive comes just as the CDC panel was set to gather next week to weigh guidance on flu and other vaccines. Committees addressing long covid and health equity were scrapped altogether.