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

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority ...

At a time when more than 100 million Americans carry medical debt, it’s easy to get behind a promise of free, or free-ish, no ...

As reported cases of measles increase daily in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing states with money to increase vaccinations, testing, and ...

A clinical trial, published Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet, showed that the bot was helpful in 75% of cases. Researchers also noted that patients didn't trust the bot until they learned a ...

Tests like full-body scans marketed directly to consumers are pitched as a way to detect diseases early and establish a ...

Many rural voters say immigrants are a key part of their local economy, but views on whether President Donald Trump’s ...

The idea of scrapping the U.S. health insurance system for a massive expansion of government-funded healthcare isn’t new. But ...

A customs rule set to take effect later this month adds fees and registration requirements to low-value shipments that previously entered the U.S. duty-free and could eliminate the ability to import ...

There’s a term for reducing unnecessary or harmful drugs: “deprescribing.” Especially as patients age, experts say, it’s ...

On Sept. 30, I was one of the seven media witnesses who observed Tennessee fail to execute convicted murderer Christa Pike, the first woman to face the death penalty in the state in almost 200 years.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...