Two years after increasing state and local public health budgets by $300 million annually, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to ...

A recent broadcast of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” frequently cited KFF Health News in its examination of how ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform ...

The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States — including suicides and fatalities linked to substance ...

A California lawmaker wants the state to craft guidelines for how and when schoolchildren can play or exercise during extreme ...

Most U.S. hospitals aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills. One New York hospital system decided to work with them ...

Ecstasy, “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelic drugs could soon be recognized as therapeutic in California — one of the ...

Resident physician Elaine Chan (upper left) and medical student Sonia Raghuram (lower left) volunteered as medics during pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA this month. They described treating protesters ...

California’s Medicaid program is relying heavily on community groups to deliver new social services to vulnerable patients, ...

Johns Dental Laboratories stopped making the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance last year after a KFF Health News-CBS News ...

People with disabilities say they are abruptly losing their Medicaid home health benefits and are being advised incorrectly ...