Category: Health Fitness

Los republicanos insisten en que los recortes del presidente Donald Trump a Medicaid buscaban reducir el fraude y poner a…

Jackie Fortiér A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert…

Kate Ruder Cuando Judith Miller se hizo un análisis de sangre rutinario en julio, recibió una alerta en su teléfono…

When Judith Miller had routine blood work done in July, she got a phone alert the same day that her…

New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is…

Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing between her insurer and her…

Lauren Sausser When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to…

Jamie Ducharme After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from…

It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan…

By Renuka Rayasam September 4, 2025 Article HTML Renuka Rayasam LISTEN: Carrot or the stick? Some nutritionists say incentives are…

It makes sense to approach some marketing efforts with skepticism. Scams, deepfakes, and deceptive social media posts are common, with…

The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from…

Amy Frank dijo que pasó 17 horas al teléfono durante casi tres semanas, rebotando entre su aseguradora y el sistema…

John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called…

Henry Larweh and Rachana Pradhan and Rae Ellen Bichell The Trump administration’s cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Preocupados por la inflación, los estadounidenses han estado atentos a precios de productos cotidianos como los huevos y la gasolina.…

Aneri Pattani UnitedHealth Group’s multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attempt to force…

En el Valle de San Luis, al sur de Colorado, las nubes se elevan sobre las imponentes montañas de la…

BOGALUSA, La. — Less than a mile from a century-old mill that sustained generations in this small town north of…

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to…

In southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus…

Se suponía que iba a ser más fácil. Cuando la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) se…

Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Amid the challenges of adulthood, one rite of passage is unique to…

It was supposed to be easier than this. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, the goal…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say they remain…

As the federal government reworks rules for a $42 billion broadband expansion program, millions of Americans live in places where…

The Host Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that the federal government will cancel nearly $500…

National Institutes of Health workers provide interventional radiology services to a patient at the NIH Clinical Center in 2008. (National…

If you want a covid-19 shot this fall, will your employer’s health insurance plan pay for it? There’s no clear…

Vanessa G. Sánchez A Fortina Hernández la llaman “la que lo sabe todo”. Durante más de dos décadas, esta trabajadora…

Paula Span A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So…

Fred Schulte, KFF Health News A new breed of cosmetic surgery chains, some backed by private equity investors, are competing…

Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News and Henry Larweh A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually…

A few days after a harrowing cosmetic surgery procedure, Erin Schaeffer said, she woke up with fluid leaking from an…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies…

La terapia de rehabilitación puede ser una bendición después de una hospitalización por un derrame cerebral, una caída, un accidente,…

A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law…

Darius Tahir One of the world’s biggest genetic databases comprises DNA data donated over the years by more than a…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

Jordan Rau, KFF Health News Federal health officials do not inform consumers about severe safety violations in hospitals that specialize…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Most of the 24 million people in Affordable Care Act health plans face a potential…

Jordan Rau, KFF Health News and Irena Hwang, The New York Times Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major…

Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe…

On his way to an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped by…

Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health…

As a postpartum doula, Dawn Oliver does her best work in the middle of the night. During a typical shift,…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

By Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV July 10, 2025 Article HTML Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV…

Nicole Silva’s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative’s house near the southern Colorado town of La Jara when a…

In Connecticut, construction workers in the Local 478 union who complete addiction treatment are connected with a recovery coach who…

The Host Early Thursday afternoon, the House approved a budget reconciliation bill that not only would make permanent many of…

The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. Yet in its feverish purge of…

El “One Big Beautiful Bill” del presidente Donald Trump recorta el gasto federal en los mercados de Medicaid y la…

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Renuka Rayasam and Bernard J. Wolfson President Donald…

The Trump administration has launched investigations into health care organizations in an effort to allow providers to refuse care for…

As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

Paula Span Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she…

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles…

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’…

GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does…

Kim Beckham, agente de seguros en Victoria, Texas, había visto a sus amigos sufrir tanto por la culebrilla (shingles) que…

Bernard J. Wolfson Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing…

Decenas de expertos en VIH de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) recibieron correos electrónicos el…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts,…

Amy Maxmen Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails on Wednesday revoking notices…

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health — the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host…

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Major changes could be in store for the more than 24 million people with health coverage under the Affordable Care…

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After decades of unsuccessful efforts to improve California prison conditions ruled unconstitutional and blamed for record-high suicides,…

The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses is the…

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three…

A principios de este año, cuando el presidente Donald Trump comenzaba a remodelar el gobierno, Michael, un médico de emergencias…

Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health — the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly — will now…

Stephanie Armour The Trump administration’s anti-regulatory approach and cost-cutting moves risk unraveling a critical system of checks and balances that…

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who…

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Organizaciones de salud sin fines de lucro e intérpretes médicos advierten que los recortes federales han…

SAN FRANCISCO — Health nonprofits and medical interpreters warn that federal cuts have eliminated dozens of positions in California for…

At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their…

CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell’s doctor recommended she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before…

It’s a marvel of food technology: ice cream that resists melting. In a video explaining the science behind it, a…

Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in…

WINNER, Dakota del Sur — Sophie Hofeldt tenía previsto hacerse los controles de embarazo y dar a luz en el…

Arielle Zionts WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10…

In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows,…

More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound…

OAK FLAT, Ariz. — Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile…

Dan Weissmann News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like…

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln…

Cuando una mujer se desplomó en una escalera mecánica en el aeropuerto de Buffalo, en Nueva York, el pasado junio,…

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead…

El principal organismo no partidario de control gubernamental del país ha confirmado que está examinando los costos de operar el…

The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts,…

Sam Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running…

The FDA has rehired at least some workers tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities, two…

Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent…

Aneri Pattani Cuando la administración Trump recortó a finales de marzo más de $11.000 millones en fondos estatales destinados a…

Michelle Andrews When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew…

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52…

When the Trump administration cut more than $11 billion in covid-era funds to states in late March, addiction recovery programs…

Hospitals have spent years amassing political influence at the federal and state levels. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, hospitals and…

Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Chicago He’s 17 and lives in the Chicago suburbs. He loves theater and recently helped direct a…

Mike Dennison HELENA, Mont. — As Republican legislative leaders in Montana girded for this year’s battle over whether to extend…

They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like…

Paula Span The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011,…

Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney,…

The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill…

Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan The National Institutes of Health’s sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are…

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about…

For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment. Struggling to manage depression and diabetes,…

Arielle Zionts Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies,…

Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an…

Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang Alanys Ortiz entiende las señales de Josephine Senek antes de que ella pueda decir…

Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some…

MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural…

Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will…

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has made combating fraud a centerpiece of his administration. Trump has…

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets…

A view of 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland, which houses the headquarters of the Agency for Healthcare Research and…

Five years ago, the CEO of one of the largest pain clinic companies in the Southeast was sentenced to more…

HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the…

HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s small, independent pharmacies say they’re getting increasingly squeezed on reimbursements by pharmacy benefit managers — and…

Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of…

HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance…

The routine is familiar for most people: When checking in for an appointment with a doctor or other health care…

The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI programs could exacerbate an unexpectedly steep drop in diversity among medical school students, even…

When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red…

HELENA, Mont. — Montana lawmakers are grappling with how — if at all — the state should rein in kratom,…

(iStock/Getty Images) Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News La administración Trump publicó el lunes 10 de marzo su primer conjunto importante de cambios…

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted…

Phillip Reese Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on…

President Donald Trump’s health officials want you to take your vitamins. Mehmet Oz, the nominee to lead the Centers for…

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the…

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired…

A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of…

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient…

The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal…

Researchers racing to develop bird flu vaccines for humans have turned to a cutting-edge technology that enabled the rapid development…

The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And…

Panelists at a covid conference last fall were asked to voice their regrets — policies they had supported during the…

Cada vez más estados están facilitando que médicos que se formaron en otros países obtengan licencias médicas, un cambio que,…

As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical…

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose…

The Justice Department’s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments…

Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer.…

A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses,…

Angela Hart Los Angeles County homelessness leaders last year reported nearly 30,000 permanent housing placements — an annual high for…

Angela Hart ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to…

Jackie Fortiér The lobby at this St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles bustles with patients. But community…

El vestíbulo de la clínica comunitaria St. John’s Community Health en el sur de Los Ángeles está repleto de pacientes,…

At a recent Nevada legislative committee hearing, lawmakers faced off with members of the governor’s administration over how to fill…

Arthur Allen Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration…

Renuka Rayasam Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s…

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000…

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back…

Christine Mai-Duc When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a…

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least…

HAVANA, Florida. — Para ser una comunidad rural, este pueblo de 1,750 habitantes ha sido más afortunado que la mayoría.…

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring…

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients…

Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators in Sacramento seem to agree: Prescription drug prices are too high. But lawmakers…

HELENA, Mont. — When Lou and Lindsay Volpe’s son was diagnosed with a chronic bowel disease at age 11, their…

For more than a decade, Kaiser Permanente has been under the microscope for shortcomings in mental health care, even as…

Shannon Sharpe was having one of those 15-minutes-of-internet-infamy moments. Social media blew up in September after the retired Denver Broncos…

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four…

SUITLAND, Md. — At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of customers loaded clothes into…

Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned…

SALINAS, California. — Este valle costero, que se hizo famoso gracias al novelista John Steinbeck, a veces se conoce cariñosamente…

SALINAS, Calif. — This coastal valley made famous by the novelist John Steinbeck is sometimes known affectionately as “America’s salad…

WALHALLA, S.C. — Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a small primary care clinic run by Clemson…

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Arthur Allen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist President Donald Trump nominated to…

Montana lawmakers are grappling with what they can do to improve patient care and operations at the state’s psychiatric hospital…

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across…

In summertime, cows wait under a canopy to be milked at Mark McAfee’s farm in Fresno, California. From his Cessna…

States and the nation’s health industry were thrown into disarray after the Trump administration ordered Monday that the government freeze…

Arthur Allen President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public…

HELENA, Mont. — As part of a proposed revamping of the state’s behavioral health system, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration…

Tus bocadillos podrían ser blanco del nuevo gobierno de Trump. Durante años, el gobierno federal ha evitado regular la comida…

California está aconsejando a los proveedores de atención médica que no pongan el estatus migratorio de los pacientes en las…

For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President…

In his return to the White House this week, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders on immigration,…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Stephanie Armour President Donald Trump’s early actions on health care signal his likely intention…

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of…

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling…

John Daley, Colorado Public Radio DENVER — Outside HCA HealthONE Rose medical center, the snow is flying. Inside, on the…

The new Trump administration could be coming for your snacks. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating…

The Host Incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration is Monday, yet the new GOP-led Congress is already rushing to work his…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” mantra,…

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline…

Una de las tareas del oncólogo es preparar a los pacientes con cáncer para tomar decisiones difíciles cuando se acerca…

Throughout her childhood, Julia Lo Cascio dreamed of becoming a pediatrician. So, when applying to medical school, she was thrilled…