Researchers say among those with private insurance, not one transgender person under 12 was prescribed gender-affirming hormones. “There’s not some massive wave of folks accessing care,” the report's ...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is the incoming chairman of the Senate HELP committee. Cassidy was one of just seven Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial in ...

The research, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also concluded that large municipal wastewater treatment plants are unable to fully remove the chemicals during ...

Viewpoints: Hawaii’s Governor Tackles Vaccine Skepticism, RFK Jr.; Employer-Based Health Care Is Problematic. Opinion writers discuss these public health issues. The New York Ti ...

Critics, however, say the move is too little, too late. Other FDA and pharma news is on AI-enabled medical devices, smaller PBMs, and more.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has estimated that this could boost the credit scores of people with medical debt by an average of 20 points, potentially improving their access to housing and ...

A Tennessee judge largely blocks a law requiring porn site age verification; Indiana death row inmates reject Biden's commutation; and Donald Trump brings a new wrinkle to California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints ...

The patient, who had underlying medical conditions, was exposed to the virus through a backyard flock and wild birds. As Iowa records its first H5N1 case in a domestic flock this year, officials warn ...

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings.

The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular ...

A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics ...