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Trump Team’s Reworking Delays Billions in Broadband Build-Out
Millions of Americans who have waited decades for fast internet connections will keep waiting after the…
Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink
On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home…
Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare
When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based…
Inestabilidad de la planta profesional en los CDC altera proyectos de VIH y desperdicia dinero, dicen investigadores
Decenas de expertos en VIH de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC)…
Expertos dicen que el secretario de Salud envió “ciencia basura” a congresistas para defender cambios en las vacunas contra covid
Para apoyar la decisión del secretario Robert F. Kennedy Jr. de cambiar la política nacional sobre…
The Price You Pay for an Obamacare Plan Could Surge Next Year
MIAMI — Josefina Muralles works a part-time overnight shift as a receptionist at a Miami Beach…
‘MAGA’ Backers Like Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ — Until They Learn of Health Consequences
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Nearly two-thirds of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful…
A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity
Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box…
NIH Workers Risk Retaliation by Openly Protesting Trump Policies
Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health — the largest public funder of biomedical…
CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say
Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails on Wednesday…
Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say
A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert…
RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief…
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s…
Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’
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What Are ‘Improper’ Medicaid Payments, and Are They as High as a Trump Official Said?
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact “One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” Russell…
Four Ways Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Undermine Access to Obamacare
Major changes could be in store for the more than 24 million people with health coverage…
Echoing 2020, Police Use Rubber Bullets Against Protesters in Los Angeles
Weapons dubbed “less lethal” are once again being used in Los Angeles, this time against people…
As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers
Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit,…
‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’
Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s…
$20K Bonuses Among Latest Moves To Improve California’s Prison Mental Health System
Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After decades of unsuccessful efforts to improve California prison conditions ruled…
As Cannabis Users Age, Health Risks Appear To Grow
Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California-San Diego, tells his…