Minor interventions are increasingly being rebranded and billed as surgery, for profit. This means a neurologist spending 40 ...

Hypothermia deaths have risen in California and across the nation. Experts point to the growing number of older, unsheltered ...

Researchers found toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water wells dotting California’s rural farming regions, far from ...

Aaron Siri, a lawyer who is helping to vet candidates for top health positions, has a history of challenging vaccine policies in courts. Candidates to fill roles in the incoming administration are ...

Aging alone, without a spouse, a partner, or children, requires careful planning. New programs for this growing population ...

California’s controversial experiment to order mental illness and drug treatment for some of its sickest residents is rolling out statewide, but the latest data shows the new initiative is falling far ...

Abortion pills, childhood vaccines, CMS ratings, off-label drug usage, minor procedures billed as surgery, and more. Plus, your weekend reads.

Doctors in Boston got tired of writing letters to utility companies asking for assistance for their medically vulnerable patients who need power and heat to stay healthy. So a hospital decided to ...

The push-pull in Montana reflects a national tension as states try to decide what counts as fair checks on tax-exempt ...

Judith Graham, KFF Health News' "Navigating Aging" columnist, talks with older adults who live alone by choice or circumstance. They share what it means to thrive in later years.

Neither suspect Luigi Mangione nor his mother are customers, the insurance giant said. Many people have speculated whether Mangione was a customer who had been denied a medical claim.

President-elect Donald Trump appoints an anti-abortion activist to a top job at OMB; South Carolina introduces a bill defining abortion as homicide; abortion access gets tougher as more clinics close; ...