Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints ...

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings.

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Health workers and researchers say an HIV outbreak in West Virginia that three years ago was called “the most concerning” in ...

A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics ...

The generation that faced discrimination, ostracism, and the AIDS epidemic now faces old age. Many struggle with isolation ...

In the seventh year of KFF Health News’ “Bill of the Month” series, patients shared their most perplexing, vexing, and ...

Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the ...

Federal health officials over the past year, apparently chastened by accusations of sometimes inflating the risks from covid-19, have too often swung to the opposite extreme, minimizing hazards from ...

Farmers will now have to prove that they did everything possible to prevent outbreaks before they can receive governmental indemnity payments. Also in the news: President Joe Biden nearly doubles ...

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