Along Lake Erie, three states show how Republican lawmakers’ decisions over decades on cigarettes and seat belts are shortening life spans.

Weber will examine the forces promoting scientific and medical disinformation on subjects such as vaccines, drugs, nutritional supplements and health-care treatments.

Even after their babies died, hospital bills kept coming. These parents of fragile, very sick infants faced exorbitant bills — though they had insurance. "The process was just so heartless," one says.

Public health officials are confronting growing pressure — and threats — across the country as the backlash to the coronavirus response continues. At least 27 state and local health leaders have...

Insurance companies often require patients to have medical procedures preapproved. But that doesn’t guarantee they’ll end up paying.

Lawsuits and legislation fueled by covid backlash have stripped public health officials of powers, leaving the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.

The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by The Associated Press and KHN has...

“We’re all supposed to be staying at home, and I’m out going to 10 different stores,” a North Carolina diabetes patient said.

When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.

A KHN investigation found covid vaccine registration and information websites at the federal, state and local levels are flouting disability rights laws and limiting the ability of people who are...

A coalition of religious groups, conservative think tanks, and Republican attorneys general have chipped away at local and state authority, altering how the nation can respond during health crises.

Despite workers' alerts about the unsafe conditions at Victorville, little has been improved and infectious disease is rapidly spreading.

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she’s struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her...

Patient numbers are rising as health responders struggle to fight Ebola in a Democratic Republic of Congo war zone.

About half of U.S. rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. Now facing a pandemic, hospital CEOs warn that, without federal help, their doors may close when the community most needs them.

A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies’ claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm...

About 3 percent of Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine so far.

As private equity snaps up ophthalmology practices, some patients say they feel more like dollar signs.

Medical boards received more than 480 complaints related to covid misinformation. A Washington Post investigation found at least 20 doctors have been punished.

“We’re all supposed to be staying at home, and I’m out going to 10 different stores,” a North Carolina diabetes patient said.

One Missouri clinic has seen more than six times as many cases in the first few months of 2019 compared with the same period last year.

"Without PPE, you lose to this virus."

As omicron sweeps the country, many hospitals are dealing with a flood of people hospitalized with covid — including those primarily admitted for other reasons. While often milder cases, so-called...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health leaders around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired...

Nationwide, testing for coronavirus is ramping up. But the supply of specialty swabs needed to collect potential coronavirus specimens can’t keep up with demand, creating a bottleneck in testing...

A federal audit and a whistleblower lawsuit allege that Medicare Advantage plans from the St. Louis-based Essence Group Holdings Corp. have significantly overcharged taxpayers.

The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century. An investigation by The Associated Press and KHN has...

The underfunding of public health and political backlash destabilized Missouri’s vaccine rollout, creating racial inequity and forcing some residents to drive hours to get shots.

The influx of pandemic cash enabled organizations to deepen their influence in statehouses, courtrooms and communities across the country.

This group of doctors championed ivermectin as a covid "miracle" drug without scientific evidence. Now they're pushing the anti-parasitic for flu and RSV.

Staff at St James parish hospital have struggled to handle the surge of Covid patients – and despite the arrival of vaccines, problems persist

Outside New Orleans in one of the hardest-hit counties nationally, the 25-bed St James parish hospital has seen staff infected, patient intake doubled and intubations soar

Catalyzed by the paltry response to the pandemic and the inequities it is causing, people are flocking to graduate programs in public health to become the next front-line workers.

Ebola. MERS. Zika. Nipah virus. Lassa fever. Rift Valley fever. All were in active outbreaks in June.

A surge in patients. Attacks against health workers. Money running out. What the outbreak has been like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that counties with ICUs average one ICU bed for every 1,300 older residents, those most at risk for needing hospitalization.

When Kansas elected Laura Kelly as governor, Medicaid expansion looked like a shoo-in, with seemingly broad support across state government. It didn’t happen. A look at conservatives’ new health care...

More than 20 states either don’t count or have incomplete data on the use of COVID-19 antigen tests, a review by Kaiser Health News showed.

It's now the third-largest outbreak ever of the deadly hemorrhagic fever, with 215 deaths.

As covid-19 raged, roughly 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists, and public health nurses were hired by a nonprofit tied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

On top of fearing for their children’s lives, new parents of very fragile, very sick infants can face exorbitant hospital bills — even if they have insurance...

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer is among the departures since John Bolton became head of the National Security Council.

The ex-NYC health commissioner allegedly forcibly touched a woman inside his residence in 2017.

Cases have jumped 28 percent this year, and there's a "constrained supply" of vaccine.

Jorge A. Perez and his management company, EmpowerHMS, helped run an empire of rural hospitals. Now, in a staggering implosion, 12 of them have entered bankruptcy and eight have closed their doors,...