Health

As US ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies

SARWORLOR, Liberia -- Five months ago, Roseline Phay, a 32-year-old farmer from the West African nation of Liberia, set off on a quest to find contraceptives.Phay and her partner have two daughters...

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In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency

LOS ANGELES — Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addict...

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Workplace Mental Health at Risk as Key Federal Agency Faces Cuts

In Connecticut, construction workers in the Local 478 union who complete addiction treatment are connected with a recovery coach who checks in daily, attends recovery meetings with them, and helps ...

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Medical groups sue HHS, RFK Jr. over 'unlawful' vaccine changes

Several major medical organizations filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday over what they are calling "unlawful, uni...

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ER visits for tick bites near record levels this summer across US

Children and the elderly face highest risk as tick cases rise across regions.Emergency rooms across the country are seeing a spike in tick bite cases, according to new data from the Centers for Dis...

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‘Kids are the canaries in the coal mine’: Huge study finds worse childhood obesity, depression, all-around ill health

The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic diseases and mental health problems like depression, a new study says. ...

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Ozempic-Like Drug Liraglutide Slashes Migraine Days In Half, Study Finds

A new pilot study suggests that liraglutide, a GLP-1RA prescribed for diabetes and weight management, could help reduce migraine frequency. MementoJpeg/Getty Images An Ozempic-like drug pr...

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Doctors and public health organizations sue Kennedy over vaccine policy changes

Doctors groups and public health organizations are suing the U.S. government over the decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant womenNEW YORK -- A coalition...

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RFK Jr. Is Noticeably Quiet About a MAHA Obsession

The MAHA diet is full of fussy advice: swap the seed oils for beef tallow, cut out the ultra-processed snacks and synthetic food dyes, slap on a continuous glucose monitor to track how your blood s...

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My Personal War on Plastic

I used to love my Teflon pans. I crisped tofu, fried latkes, and reduced sauces to sticky glazes in them, marveling at how cleanup never took more than a swipe of a sponge. Then I started to worry ...

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Obesity drug prices are dropping, but getting a steady supply remains a challenge

Prices are falling for the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound, but steady access to the drugs remains challenging.The medications still amount to around $500 per month for those without...

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Scientists Are Afraid of What RFK Jr. Means for Autism

The annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research is the closest autism science gets to having an Oscars moment of its own. When 2,200 experts from more than 50 countries meet up ...

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Rob Lowe Wants More People to Join Cancer Clinical Trials. Here’s Why

Actor Rob Lowe has teamed up with Eli Lilly to encourage more people to participate in cancer clinical trials. Photography courtesy of Rob Lowe Rob Lowe shares how three generations of wom...

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The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face

The bus smashed into him last month, when he was crossing the street with his wheelchair. By the time he made it to the public hospital in California where I work as a doctor, two quarts of blood h...

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Journalists Assess Health Impacts of Trump’s Megabill, Who Will Feel Them, and When

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed how cuts to Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s megabill will affect Americans’ access to health care on NPR’s “Up First,” CNN...

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The NHS ten-year health plan is missing a crucial ingredient: nature

mimagephotography/ShutterstockThe UK government has finally unveiled its much anticipated ten-year Plan for improving England’s health. It contains a long overdue focus on prevention, after years ...

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Foreign medical residents fill critical positions, but run into visa issues

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration's travel and vis...

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie's stories. ...

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States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill

Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions that would not only reshape people’s experience ...

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GOP defends Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ with weird talking points about basement dwellers

President Trump’s tax and spending bill just passed in the House of Representatives and is now on its way to his desk to become law. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation (a...

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Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid

Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network of affiliated clinics that are the largest provider of reproductive health services...

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