Health
AURORA, Ill. -- At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket...
U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attac...
Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found.The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization th...
SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, so...
For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment.
Struggling to manage depression and ...
A new study suggests that probiotics can benefit mental health even in generally healthy populations. vorDa/Getty Images
Taking probiotics may reduc...
At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow.
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In recent years, states across the Mountain West have passed laws that limit doctors from providing transgender children with certain kinds of gender-affirmi...
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through commu...
Sadness, anger, confusion, infatuation, lack of interest in sex, elation – these have all been normal human emotions since ...
ADHD medications may raise heart health indicators like blood pressure and pulse, but patient monitoring can lead to successful health outcomes. Maskot/Getty...
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and national public health correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed the impact of federal cuts on publi...
CHANDLER, Ariz. -- CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent time in tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico this week highlig...
If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence. In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were t...
Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to mai...
Introduction
Picture this: a small device on your wrist that tracks your heartbeat, reminds you to drink water, and even warns you whe...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a significant commitment at Thursday's Cabinet meeting at the White House, saying that his age...
WASHINGTON -- Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, allowing some of its most...
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
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President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determ...
Three people in rural California have died from hantavirus, the rare virus that killed late actor Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, in February. Purschke/U...
