Starting next year, about 18.5 million adults will be subject to new Medicaid work rules in 42 states and Washington, D.C.

A funding notice for Title X shifts the program’s emphasis from contraception to fertility, family formation, and addressing ...

A KFF Health News analysis found Medi-Cal lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025.

As CNN reported, intramuscular fat prevents muscle fibers from properly regenerating, weakening them. Weak muscles are a key driver of knee osteoarthritis, which affects nearly 375 million people ...

Houman Hemmati, who criticized the government's response to the covid pandemic, is in the running to replace Vinay Prasad as the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, ...

A rural Nebraska dialysis unit that was hemorrhaging money closed, upending patients’ lives. That’s despite a federal rural ...

Inspectors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have faulted seven Ohio facilities for discharging people to homeless shelters, which aren't capable of caring for seniors with medical ...

Meanwhile, a proposed rule from CMS would require Medicare Advantage plans to respond to medication prior authorization requests within 24 or 72 hours, depending on urgency.

Heading toward the midterm elections, the Trump administration will argue that its agenda is addressing issues including too few physicians and too much paperwork, The Washington Post reported. But ...

The first long-term study in the U.S. shows that drinking fluoridated water has no negative effect on cognition up to the age of 80. The use of fluoridated water has been shown to reduce tooth decay ...

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner recently made the radio rounds to discuss topical stories. Here’s ...

Stat reported that patients who took the daily pill, called daraxonrasib, lived a median of 13.2 months compared with 6.7 months for patients who received chemotherapy. One of the trial's participants ...