KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national media last week to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances…Read MoreContinue Reading
Florida is suing three major medical associations accusing them of pushing misinformation about gender-affirming care to drive demand for their members’ services., Read MoreContinue Reading
The government said it will move quickly to appoint a new maternity commissioner for England after a damning report found the system was not set up to deliver high quality or compassionate care. A rapid review led by Baroness Valerie Amos called for urgent change in the way patients wereContinue Reading
New Mexico’s governor says the state could seek billions in civil damages after DEA agents allowed fentanyl shipments into communities, Read MoreContinue Reading
The payment by Elevance Health to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services comes as the agency threatened to bar new enrollments in the company’s plans…Read MoreContinue Reading
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the first hematopoietic stem cell transplant therapy to treat patients with rare but severe aplastic anemia., Read MoreContinue Reading
A multidisciplinary medical team in Peru successfully managed an ectopic pregnancy in which a placenta adhered to the mother’s liver was delivered as a full-term baby after 40 weeks of gestation., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration is meeting next month to consider easing restrictions on several peptides, a group of unapproved drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The agency posted meeting materials online Monday, Read MoreContinue Reading
Resident doctors in England have voted to accept the government’s offer on pay and jobs, bringing an end to three years of strikes. The offer includes more training jobs, faster pay progression and a plan to cover out-of-pocket expenses like exam fees. Patients have seen hundreds of thousands appointments cancelledContinue Reading
Writing on social media, alongside a picture of herself at the summit of Ben Nevis, she said: “Cancer doesn’t just affect the body. “It changes how you think and feel and profoundly affects every aspect of life. “I know this personally, and that the journey through and beyond treatment requiresContinue Reading
The head of the WHO warns that Europe must do more to protect people., Read MoreContinue Reading
“Government has to intervene, because healthcare is run like an unregulated utility,” Indiana’s GOP governor says of the state’s effort to regulate hospital prices…Read MoreContinue Reading
A 79-year-old woman who discovered she had cancer after requesting a scan from her local breast screening unit has urged others over 70 to self-refer for routine mammograms. Carol Turansky, from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, said she had no symptoms of the condition before being diagnosed earlier this year. Women aged 50Continue Reading