State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spread more anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines.

The state has among the highest levels of medical debt in the country, data shows.

State officials threatened to withhold public money from hospitals, pioneering a strategy that could become a national model.

Amari Marsh, now 23, was a student at South Carolina State University when she lost her pregnancy in 2023. She was charged ...

This is probably a low estimate, however, since the credit bureau data and other sources suggest that medical debt is higher ...

Más de 16 millones de estadounidenses viven solos mientras envejecen. Sorprendentemente, se sabe muy poco sobre sus ...

El fallo de la Corte dejó en manos de los estados las políticas sobre el aborto. Desde entonces, 14 estados promulgaron prohibiciones a la práctica que contemplan unas pocas excepciones, mientras que ...

A seemingly innocuous proposal to offer scholarships for mental health workers in California’s new court-ordered treatment program has sparked debate over whether the state should prioritize that ...

KFF Health News and California Healthline staff took to the airwaves recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection ...

If Martin County, North Carolina, officials are successful, their hospital could become one of the first in the country to reopen as a “rural emergency hospital,” a new federal designation created to ...

Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. Today's selections are on racism in health care, sickle cell, autism, the gun ...

Several hundred high-risk individuals were inoculated in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the outbreak in Africa is still not under control, with ...