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Kampus Productions/PexelsAs summer fades into autumn, most Australian states and territories will set their clocks back an hour as daylight saving time ends...
PRETORIA, South Africa -- A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of peo...
About 10,000 people across the United States Department of Health and Human Services were laid off this week as part of a massive restructuring plan.In a pos...
LISTEN: KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan spoke with federal employees who say mass government layoffs are affecting their ment...
Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when sh...
Defunding Planned Parenthood could limit health services provided by the organization, most impacting lower-income households and people in rural areas. Kayl...
Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, died from carbon monoxide poisoning during the family's vacation at ...
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Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget.
In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she ...
For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf.
No longer. Interpreters have been notice...
Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 beca...
More cities and counties across the U.S. are moving to ban fluoride in public drinking water after Utah became the first state in the country to do so.The Mi...
The FDA’s new rule restricting the sale of compounded semaglutide could make it more difficult for some people to obtain affordable weight loss medications. ...
A 50-year-old government survey on drug use may be in jeopardyMost teenagers don’t use drugs. There’s data to show that because of a 50-year-old government s...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally getting his wish of sucker punching the federal health agencies. This week, Kennedy began the process of firing some 10,000 ...
Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a ...
The FDA’s ban on compounded semaglutide could make it more difficult for some people to obtain affordable weight loss medications. Images Provided by Bailey ...
BearFotos/ShutterstockThe success of Netflix drama Adolescence, along with concerns about misogynistic influencers such as Andrew Tate, has brought the “man...
The letter was signed by elected members of the National Academies.Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to Pres...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the humid breeze l...
It’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treate...
