Health News

Budget-Strapped Montana Will Stress-Test Trump’s Medicaid Work Rules
Montana will soon test whether cash-strapped and strained state health departments can carry out federal Medicaid work requirements without ending coverage for eligible adults.
On July 1, Montana plans...

Top Gifts For Men (Ideas For Father’s Day, Bday, and More)
What do you do for gifts when the man in your life is hard to shop for? I’ve been trying to answer that question...

Readers Address Drugged Driving, Suicide Prevention, Worker Shortages
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.
On...

Trump Bought Stock in Eli Lilly as His Policies Gave the Drugmaker a Big Boost, Documents Show
President Donald Trump has long bantered about GLP-1s, the breakthrough medicines that have changed care for diabetes and obesity. Sometimes he calls them “the...
RFK Jr. Swaps Vaccine Talk for Healthy Foods and Reading to...
TOLEDO, Ohio — The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation’s health secretary.
“What do you guys want to...
As Ranks of Uninsured Grow, Minnesota’s Hospitals Are Among Least Charitable...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Cori Roberts was living in a rented basement four years ago when she was diagnosed with early-stage cervical cancer.
Recently divorced,...
Journalists Shed Light on Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak and a Crisis in...
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak on PBS NewsHour, Fox’s LiveNow From Fox, and CBS News’...
Trump Promised Cheaper Drugs. Some Prices Dropped. Many Others Shot Up.
Since his second term started, President Donald Trump has announced, negotiated, or floated a flurry of initiatives aimed at taming the excesses of the...
States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid...
LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and...
Journalists Share Latest on Baby Formula Safety, Estrogen Patches, and Postcancer...
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the results of the FDA’s largest baby formula safety test on CBS News 24/7’s...





