This News Might Ruin Your Appetite — And Summer
Fresh studies expose a gap in the FDA’s assessments of foods: Widely used additives could damage the mix of bacteria in your gut, causing health problems.
How the Trump Administration Aims To Slash Health Care Spending
One thing experts agree on: The damage from the funding cuts will be varied and immense.
Trump Exaggerates Speed and Certainty of Prescription Drug Price Reductions
According to the timeline in the May 12 executive order, prescription drug price reductions would not happen "almost immediately,” but rather could take months or years. And extending the savings to Americans outside federal health insurance programs such as Medicare would likely require congressional action.
Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies
More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth.
Trump’s DOJ Accuses Medicare Advantage Insurers of Paying ‘Kickbacks’ for Primo Customers
The Department of Justice alleges that several major health insurers paid brokerages “hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks” to get agents to steer consumers into their Medicare Advantage plans, allegations the insurers strongly dispute.
Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services
Pharmacists Stockpile Most Common Drugs on Chance of Targeted Trump Tariffs
Journalists Unpack Drug Prices, Threats to Medicaid, and the Fluoridation of Water
In Bustling NYC Federal Building, HHS Offices Are Eerily Quiet
Even Where Abortion Is Still Legal, Many Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Are Closing
Newsom’s Pitch as He Seeks To Pare Down Immigrant Health Care: ‘We Have To Adjust’
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': GOP Tries To Cut Billions in Health Benefits
Pain Clinic CEO Faced 20 Years for Making Patients ‘Human Pin Cushions.’ He Got 18 Months.
Mental Health and Substance Misuse Treatment Is Increasingly a Video Chat or Phone Call Away
Investigation: Dead Zone
Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts
Taxpayers — through federal infrastructure programs — have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth.
