Many U.S. hospitals are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some ...

The state Office of Health Care Affordability has set a goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by ...

Research has generally shown that drinking fluoridated water at the recommended levels is safe and beneficial for oral health ...

With his term soon to expire, Social Security chief Martin O’Malley’s efforts to address the agency’s overpayments to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diverse networks of friends, former co-workers, neighbors, and extended family are often essential sources of support for ...

In late October, the Health and Human Services Inspector General found that Medicare Advantage plans pocketed $7.5 billion in ...