Pregnant women are being asked to make large cash payments months before they deliver their babies. Some patient advocates ...

The child tax credit passed by Congress at the height of covid has expired, but states and localities are trying to fill the ...

California health officials began providing protective clothing to farmworkers months before the state’s first bird flu ...

Some Seton Emergency Physicians Reportedly Not Getting Paid: Emergency department physicians at Daly City-based Seton Medical Center, part of Alhambra-based AMHC Healthcare, have gone unpaid due to ...

With the arrival in California of dengue, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease present mainly in more tropical climates, public ...

Victims of the opioid crisis, health advocates, and public policy experts have repeatedly called on state and local ...

KFF Health News has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to compel it to release ...

Diverse networks of friends, former co-workers, neighbors, and extended family are often essential sources of support for ...

With new research and updated guidelines in Colorado and 15 other states, physicians and educators are asking parents not to ...

UnitedHealthcare, the largest Medicare Advantage contractor, accounted for about two-thirds of the payments tied to home ...

Community health workers are increasingly common in rural areas, where they help patients overcome barriers to accessing care ...

Marylanders fill out ballots during early voting in Baltimore. (Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via ...