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On March 30, 2019, a swerving car upended Tom Burke’s life. Severely injured after the crash, Burke was airlifted from…

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed opioid settlements and the Supreme Court’s overturning of a bankruptcy deal involving…

Taylor Sisk WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital…

Molly Castle Work A seemingly innocuous proposal to offer scholarships for mental health workers in California’s new court-ordered treatment program…

The Host Recent comments from former President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers preview potential health policy pursuits under a second…

Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere…

Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in…

Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Like most medical offices, the small suite of exam rooms at the PhiferCares Clinic fills daily with…

The proponents of Proposition 35, a November ballot initiative that would create a dedicated stream of funding to provide health…

When the Agriculture Department posted a recall of chicken nuggets that might be contaminated, it directed consumers to return them…

Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others…

Ballad Health, an Appalachian company with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, may soon be required to improve its quality…

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania. — En marzo de 2023, la falsa alarma de que un hombre armado andaba recorriendo escuelas secundarias católicas…

Si tú o alguien que conoces pudiera estar pasando por una crisis de salud mental, comunícate con la línea directa…

Gerri Norington, 78, never wanted to be on her own as she grew old. But her first marriage ended in…

Cara Anthony In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched…

Cara Anthony SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences…

In 1982, then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that video games might be hazardous to young people’s health, a statement…

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline…

SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his…