KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss ...

Medicare officials are pushing back against a federal watchdog’s call to crack down on home visits by Medicare Advantage health plans — a practice the watchdog says may waste billions of tax dollars ...

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Although many of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks have come from the dust jacket of Project 2025, prominent author Roger Severino, a staunch anti-abortionist, has been rejected from ...

Post-pandemic operating margins remain low. With the National Institutes of Health — a major source of grant funding — facing an uncertain future under the incoming administration, nonprofit health ...

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the four who were withdrawn from consideration didn't have the votes to get confirmed. However, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nominations ...

Meanwhile, cannabis progress could stop under the Trump administration; a labeling issues prompts a recall of the popular drug Clonazepam; Novartis acquires Kate Therapeutics; and more. The Hill: FDA ...

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 vaccines, food additives, addiction, dermatology, and ...

Possible Reasons For Fewer Fatal Opioid ODs: Less-Potent Pills, Xylazine Tests on the nation's illicit pill supply have shown that, compared to last year, fewer pills have lethal doses of fentanyl.

In other public health news: low covid vaccination rates; a spike in Valley fever in Arizona; a ground beef recall; and more. USA Today: Byproduct Of Tap Water Purification Could Be Toxic, Study Says ...

The approved proposition is a measure from an apartment trade group and comes in the wake of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation having supported several rent control initiatives. Other news from around ...

Threats to abortion medication, shield laws, and contraception at the national level have officials in Democratic-leaning states shoring up reproductive freedoms where they can. Meanwhile, in the wake ...