Segregation and lack of access have kept many Black Americans from learning to swim, which raises their risk of drowning.

Data out from CMS on Monday show a 13% increase in 2025 over the record set a year ago. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that millions of Americans could lose health care coverage ...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board was ordered to review a claim by a UC Berkeley team that gene-editing technology originated in their studies and not with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Also ...

News outlets unpack what his executive order means for Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance plans.

The FDA and CDC recommended the pause while the government looks into possible side effects. Also: RFK Jr. raises eyebrows after swimming with his grandkids in a contaminated creek; President Donald ...

Data indicate that subsequent reinfections showed a two-thirds lower risk of long covid, CIDRAP reported. Plus: early-onset puberty in girls, Black swimmers, and NutraSweet.

The Republican plan "will lead to millions of hardworking Americans losing access to health care and many of our nation’s hospitals struggling to maintain services and stay open," one executive says.

Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care, such as ...

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost ...

As Politico reports, states will bear the burden of the plan, which includes new work requirements and curbs states’ ability to levy taxes on providers. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will ...

One school district is requiring unvaxxed schoolchildren exposed to the measles virus to quarantine for 21 days. Meanwhile, for only the second time in 30 years, the number of measles cases nationwide ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...