KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH ...

On the surface, President Donald Trump embraced the MAHA movement with a pledge to end the nation’s high rates of chronic ...

A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in Mississippi, and researchers warn of a resurgence ...

Congressional Republicans are looking to cut at least $880 billion from a pool of federal funding that includes Medicaid — ...

When a New York physician was indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the ...

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost ...

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that’s ...

In recent weeks, Social Security has been plagued by problems related to technology, system errors, and even the marking of ...

Citizen oversight is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to Health and Human Services ...