Category: Health Fitness

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Sixth-grade boys were lining up to be measured in the Mann Arts and Science Magnet Middle read more

MODESTO, Calif. — When American Advanced Management made a bid for the bankrupt Madera Community Hospital last year, many local read more

Nearly two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five read more

Dan Weissmann Covering the American health care system means we tell some scary stories. This episode of “An Arm and read more

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity read more

Until last week, the system that is used to enroll people in federal Affordable Care Act insurance plans inadvertently allowed read more

When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t read more

Michelle Andrews Companies have increasingly offered generous fertility benefits to attract and keep top-notch workers. Now, the federal government is read more

A TMJ patient in Maine had six surgeries to replace part or all of the joints of her jaw. Another read more

DENVER, Colorado. — En febrero, la hija adolescente de Norma Brambila le escribió una carta que ahora lleva en su read more

Rae Ellen Bichell and Lindsey Toomer, Colorado Newsline DENVER — In February, Norma Brambila’s teenage daughter wrote her a letter read more

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Nonprofit hospitals created largely to serve the poor are adding concierge physician practices, charging patients read more

GRINNELL, Iowa — A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Hannah Norman, KFF Health News and Oona Tempest How patients are seeing their doctor read more

The Federal Trade Commission has long argued that competition makes the economy better. But some states have stopped the agency from blocking read more

Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm read more

Jason George began noticing in September that Medicaid payments had stalled for some of his assisted living facility residents, people read more

Christian Espinoza, director de operaciones de una red de clínicas de tratamiento del sur de California, comenzó recientemente a emplear read more

As the federal government negotiates with drugmakers to lower the price of 10 expensive drugs for Medicare patients, impatient legislators in some read more

One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she read more

Brett Kelman and Samantha Liss In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, Virginia, City Council member Neal Osborne left a read more

The new chief of the Social Security Administration outlined for senators Wednesday a plan to tackle overpayments and clawbacks, which read more

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million read more

Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure read more

The Biden administration has hit on a strategy to deal with the massive, industry-paralyzing cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group unit: read more

Sarah Feldman, de 35 años, recibió las primeras cartas amenazantes del Centro Médico Mount Sinai en noviembre pasado. El sistema read more

Gayle Borne ha cuidado a más de 300 niños en Springfield, Tennessee. Niños que rara vez han visto a un read more

Sarah Feldman, 35, received the first ominous letters from Mount Sinai Medical last November. The New York hospital system warned read more

In early 2019, Jennifer Hepworth and her husband were stunned by a large bill they unexpectedly received for their daughter’s read more

The Host The general election campaign for president is (unofficially) on, as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump read more

En diciembre se lanzó al mercado zuranolona, un tratamiento muy esperado para la depresión postparto, con la promesa de que read more

The Social Security Administration’s new chief is promising to overhaul the agency’s system of clawing back billions of dollars it read more

Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for read more

Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a read more

April Dembosky, KQED A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the market in December, promising an accessible and fast-acting read more

Colorado hopes to join Florida to become only the second state authorized to import prescription drugs from Canada. But they’re read more

David Hilzenrath Top U.S. officials in the Washington area have received preferential treatment from a little-known health care program run read more

Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, California, is in a bind. Since a Feb. read more

Proveedores de salud y expertos en adicciones advierten que una iniciativa en California, que ayuda a pacientes con trastorno por read more

In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand read more

Aneri Pattani MOBILE, Ala. — In this Gulf Coast city, addiction medicine doctor Stephen Loyd announced at a January event read more

Many states that tout themselves as protectors of reproductive health care, including California, Michigan and Pennsylvania, have little-noticed laws on the books protecting hospitals read more

California’s efforts to expand access to abortion care are enabling more types of medical practitioners to perform certain abortion procedures read more

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency read more

Vanessa G. Sánchez Health providers and addiction experts warn the funding structure is unstable for a California initiative that steers read more

Darius Tahir Early in the morning of Feb. 21, Change Healthcare, a company unknown to most Americans that plays a read more

Over the past two years, Madeline Beal has heard frustration and even bewilderment during public meetings about ethylene oxide, a read more

Mary Delgado’s first pregnancy went according to plan, but when she tried to get pregnant again seven years later, nothing read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters will decide March 5 whether to pump billions more dollars into combating the nation’s worst read more

Lauren Sausser Warning: Some readers may find graphic details in this article to be offensive or disturbing. CAMDEN, S.C. — read more

States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses. read more

The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the opioid epidemic’s “fourth wave,” which is not only placing read more

Rachana Pradhan and Hannah Recht Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in read more

Daniel Chang and Andy Miller As a part-time customer service representative, Jolene Dybas earns less than $15,000 a year, which read more

Anthony Stumbo’s heart sank after the doctor shared his mother’s chest X-ray. “I remember that drive home, bringing her back read more

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, appeared Feb. 14 on “CBS Mornings” to discuss why the Centers read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Drug overdose deaths in California state prisons rebounded to near record levels last year even as corrections read more

Nothing melts our hearts like a health policy valentine. Readers made us swoon this season, writing poetic lines about prescription read more

GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, read more

Estados están invirtiendo miles de millones de dólares en un experimento de atención médica de alto riesgo: utilizar fondos ya read more

The Senate Finance Committee contemplated the future yesterday: artificial intelligence and its potential applications to health care. And it turns read more

Vignesh Ramachandran If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & read more

Ronnie Cohen In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug read more

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, read more

Legisladores de Colorado han propuesto un par de medidas que, dicen, mejorarán el acceso a recursos de salud mental para read more

States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public read more

We’re halfway through the Medicaid “unwinding,” in which states are dropping people from the government health insurance program for the read more

Katheryn Houghton “IT’S BEEN REVEALED THAT FAUCI BROUGHT COVID TO THE MONTANA ONE YEAR BEFORE COVID BROKE OUT IN THE read more

Katheryn Houghton The head of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services said the agency has nearly cleared read more

Federal policymakers have been trying for a long time to lure more primary care providers to understaffed areas. The Biden administration boosted read more

The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the validity of over 100 drug product patents, focusing on devices used to deliver read more

In late 2022, Sarah Gutilla’s treatment-resistant depression had grown so severe, she was actively contemplating suicide. Raised in foster care, read more

What do herring fishing and health policy have in common? Quite a bit, it turns out, owing to a case read more

Dan Weissmann Navigating the U.S. health care system can feel like a “battle royale.” From challenging unfair medical bills to read more

Ian Hodgson, Tampa Bay Times and Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times An executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals flagged Publix Super Markets read more

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

It’s daggers out at the Federal Trade Commission in its fight against anticompetitive practices in health care. This past year, it has read more

When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she would not read more

A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday launched an examination of assisted living, holding its first hearing in two decades on read more

Chantal Panozzo and her husband followed their primary care doctors’ orders last year after they both turned 45, now the read more

LOS ANGELES ― Carla Brown waits on an air mattress, eager for her occupational therapist to arrive at her apartment read more

In the year and a half since its launch, 988 — the country’s easy-to-remember, three-digit suicide and crisis hotline — read more

Some members of Congress are demanding federal oversight of billions of dollars in opioid settlements, which state and local governments read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Every year, thousands of bankers, venture capitalists, private equity investors, and other moneybags flock to San Francisco’s read more

Mitchell Black and Noam N. Levey McALESTER, Okla. — It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to read more

Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then read more

Cuando fui a hacerme mi mamografía anual en noviembre, el asistente del centro radiológico en Manhattan me hizo una pregunta read more

The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such read more

KEOKUK, Iowa — Folks in this Mississippi River town hope a new federal program can revive the optimism engraved long read more

Montana health organizations say a state government backlog in paying its contractors has hindered their ability to provide care, and read more

Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is revisiting California’s phase-in of a nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health read more

Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: read more

Kevin Stansbury, CEO del Lincoln Community Hospital de Hugo, un pueblo de 800 habitantes en Colorado, se enfrenta a un read more

The Food and Drug Administration’s unprecedented approval of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after read more

Washington’s infamous revolving door took an unusual turn for former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar spent about read more

The Host As this election year begins in earnest, making it harder for Congress to pass bills, lawmakers on Capitol read more

Congress is back this week and feverishly working on a bipartisan agreement to fund the government for the rest of read more

Cecilia Nowell After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health read more

As I checked in at a Manhattan radiology clinic for my annual mammogram in November, the front desk staffer reviewing read more

When Phyllisa Deroze was told she had diabetes in a Fayetteville, North Carolina, emergency department years ago, she was handed read more

The share of rural Americans who live in communities without a hospital grows each year. It’s part of an ongoing read more

When KFF Health News published an article in August about the “prior authorization hell” Sally Nix said she went through read more

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Ariella Morrow, an internal medicine doctor, gradually slid from healthy self-esteem and professional success into the read more

CAIRO, Ga. — Zita Magloire carefully adjusted a soft measuring tape across Kenadie Evans’ pregnant belly. Determining a baby’s size read more

Dan Weissmann Some hospitals sue patients who can’t afford to pay their medical bills. Such lawsuits don’t tend to bring read more

As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the read more

A Tennessee dentist who has been sued by multiple TMJ and sleep apnea patients over an unproven dental device he read more

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Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022. “This read more

Over the past year there’s been movement to rein in the three big PBMs, which face little regulation though they read more

(Oona Tempest/KFF Health News) Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of read more

SAN DIEGO — Erinn Maury knew Remicade wasn’t the right drug for Patti Schulte, a rheumatoid arthritis patient the physician read more

In September 2022, Elyse Greenblatt of Queens returned home from a trip to Rwanda with a rather unwelcome-back gift: persistent read more

Too old and too sick for a heart transplant, Arvid Herrman was given a choice: Have a mechanical pump implanted read more

The head of the Social Security Administration has sent a letter of apology to members of Congress about testimony in read more

It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans were all-in on boosting public health spending. “The highest investment priority in Washington read more

Amy Maxmen Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of covid-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on read more

The Senate Finance Committee is ramping up oversight of Social Security’s overpayment problem and plans to meet with the agency read more

Pharma money is all over the place — in universities, companies doing continuing medical education for doctors and in prominent read more

Thousands of readers reacted to the articles in the “Dying Broke” series about the financial burden of long-term care in read more