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The Market Forces Quietly Adding Thousands to Patient Bills

After a failed round of in vitro fertilization this year, Anne Hug’s fertility doctor said she had a single polyp in her uterus that...
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Watch: Mark Cuban Says You Can’t Fix Healthcare Until Every Price Is Known

The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire...

What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently

It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks...

Gounder Brings Clarity to Egg Freezing, AI Virus Creation, and New Trump Vaccine Order

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed Americans’ skepticism toward public health experts and President Donald Trump’s executive order on childhood...

My Husband Was Kicked Out of Hospice for Dying Too Slowly

“No more operations,” he said. It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of...
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Hospital Prepayment Requirements Add New Wrinkles to Patients’ Financial Responsibility

Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could...
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Many States Cover Doula Care, but Access to a ‘Birthing Bestie’...

Doula Taja Iglesias and her business partner have built a space in Alexandria, Virginia, that’s all things pregnancy, birth, and childcare. Comfortable couches in one...
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Journalists Cover Cyclospora and Measles Outbreaks, and Changing Health Policies

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the cyclosporiasis outbreak on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on Aug. 5. Gounder discussed New...
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Watch: Democratic Senator Proposes a Fix for American Healthcare — Covering...

In this “How Would You Fix It?” interview, Julie Rovner, KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast,...
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Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the...

More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called more...
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Journalists Catch You Up on Fauci Hearing, Peptides, and Kids’ Caffeine...

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed how children’s caffeine consumption is affecting their health on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on...