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Uninsured patients made up about 1 in 4 of the more than 20,000 gunshot wound inpatient hospitalizations in Florida from 2018 to 2024, an analysis of state data by KFF Health News and The Trace fou...
American hunters skew conservative, rural, and male — all associated with increased hesitancy about or resistance to vaccines. At the same time, hunters spend more time than most people outdoors an...
Would hunters take a vaccine for Lyme disease? The question is more significant than you might think. A new Lyme vaccine is being submitted for approval by Pfizer and Valneva, including to the agen...
Here’s what happened in healthcare this week:
— The Trump administration has charged 455 people for their alleged involvement in $6.5 billion worth of healthcare fraud.
— A federal judge says t...
For the second year in a row, Trump administration officials are delaying the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars in health-related grant funding as political appointees seek to ensure ...
Here’s what happened in healthcare this week:
- RFK Jr. says he helped secure the transfer of the final 475 beagles out of a Wisconsin facility where they were bred for use in medical research.
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Senate Democrats hope a little-used law from the 1990s will help draw attention to the healthcare cost issue by forcing a vote on the Trump administration’s recent changes to the Affordable Care Ac...
Here’s what happened in health care this week:
— President Donald Trump has had four known medical visits since returning to office last year. He says he’s checked out “perfectly.” Trump’s health...
New rules out this week from the Trump administration for implementing work requirements for adult Medicaid recipients surprised many state officials. The rules make it more difficult for states to...
The idea of a single-payer healthcare system has resurfaced over the past few months in the governor’s race in California.
But it’s a pitch that's been floated by left-leaning politicians for deca...
Here’s what happened in health care this week:
— JD Vance told a group of mostly Republican attorneys general that the administration is stopping more than $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments.
— ...
When Republicans passed their big budget bill in 2025, they thought the effects of cuts to health programs wouldn’t show up until after the 2026 midterms. They were wrong. Meanwhile, the party is t...
Here’s what happened in health care this week:
— The director-general of the World Health Organization has declared the ongoing Ebola situation an international public health emergency. More th
In this week's podcast episode of What the Health? From KFF Health News and @wamu885:
In just the first few days after losing his bid for reelection in Louisiana, Senate Health, Education, Labor ...
Some children are healthy enough to leave the hospital after a medical stay but have no place to go. Across the country, the practice of allowing children to remain hospitalized “beyond medical nec...
Julie Rovner, KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, recently spoke with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) about the ongoing fight between President Don...
Here’s what happened in health care this week:
— President Trump’s FDA commissioner Marty Makary is out of a job.
— Americans who were on that cruise ship with the hantavirus outbreak are bac
In one of the most widely expected departures in recent memory, Marty Makary stepped down as head of the FDA this week.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is considering blocking telehealth prescription...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. masked up before observing a heart surgery in an operating room and chewed on microgreens in Ohio, but the Health and Human Services Secretary couldn’t dodge questions about t...
Here’s what happened in health care this week:
— HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants more Americans to turn to therapy, nutrition, and exercise for help with their mental health instead of ...