KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss ...

A Massachusetts woman ended up stranded in the hospital because CVS stopped providing the IV nutrition she needs to survive ...

Flooding wrought by Hurricane Helene devastated communities around Asheville, North Carolina. A host of government programs ...

This legislative cycle, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills affirming reproductive rights and mandating insurance coverage of in ...

Eight months after the Feb. 14 shooting, people wounded at the Kansas City Chiefs parade are wary of more gun violence. In ...

Uber and Lyft have become a critical part of the nation’s infrastructure for transporting ailing people from their homes — ...

The CDC released data Thursday that shows teen smoking and using at least one tobacco product — such as cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, nicotine pouches and hookahs — fell to the lowest level since ...

Although a panel of Tennessee judges agrees that providers can't be punished in the professional realm, they noted physicians still may face criminal charges. Meanwhile, a federal judge clamped down ...

The New York Times: Ozempic's Next Magic Trick: Treating Drug Addiction Could these medications — collectively known as GLP-1 receptor agonists — also fight America’s most difficult drug ...

Researchers examine the cause and effect of the viral infection on the brain. In other mental health news, 988 crisis hotline callers will now be directed to nearby call centers.

Donald Berwick, who ran Medicare during the Obama administration, says Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers need a lot more regulation. He suggests a two-pronged system fix that would take ...

NPR reports that the FDA is not including one of the strains of flu — B/Yamagata — in this year's recipe because covid prevention initiatives appear to have pushed it into oblivion. Meanwhile, ...