The Ultimate Internet Safety Guide for Seniors (2022)
The internet can be a scary place, especially if you’re old enough to be able…
The internet can be a scary place, especially if you’re old enough to be able…
Covid cases are again climbing, but you wouldn’t know it from the behavior of public…
After a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion was published May 2 suggesting that Roe v.…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse many families up to $9,000 in funeral expenses…
Hundreds of nurses gathered outside a Nashville courthouse to protest RaDonda Vaught’s prosecution for a…
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week…
Legislators are proposing an overhaul of California’s licensing system for nursing homes that would make…
A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health…
A un año de recibir millones del gobierno federal, los estados apenas han comenzado a…
ery little has been normal for children these past two years, and some youngsters are…
California regulators issued record fines against L.A. Care, the state’s largest Medi-Cal managed-care plan, for…
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are seeking to craft a compromise that…
The pandemic crisis has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, already delaying access to the insurance…
The part of my London visit that I didn’t plan was testing positive for the…
The Biden administration unveiled a new special enrollment option aimed at signing up low-income Americans…
The former Tennessee nurse faces prison time for a fatal error. Reaction from her peers…
The more than $16 billion, decade-long effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs was designed…
Many sleep scientists maintain that people who prefer to stay up late could improve their…
CMS chief Chiquita Brooks-LaSure says the agency reserves its power to quickly institute new regulations…
Private and public employers are increasingly using the government’s Medicare Advantage program as an alternative…
The pandemic has shown that loosening the strict regulations on distributing methadone helps people recovering…
President Joe Biden spent a large portion of his first State of the Union address…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched several initiatives to cut rising drug prices, but the savings…
Spun off from the ailing but not-quite-dead Build Back Better legislation, a popular proposal to…
Kennedy Stonum, a 17-year-old high school junior, resisted getting vaccinated against covid-19, as did 20-year-old…
If you want to prevent mosquito bites, the key may be in the clothes you…
The COVID-19 pandemic killed enough terminally ill people in the fourth quarter of 2021, and…
Missouri has the worst covid-19 vaccination rate for nursing home health care workers in the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly changed its guidance to allow an extra…
A KHN reporter had written for years about the people left behind by the absurdly…
Muchas farmacias no saben que los CDC han autorizado la cuarta dosis de la vacuna…
The new federal law will provide protection against surprise medical bills for between 6 million…
About a quarter of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Despite the large number of workers…
El aborto espontáneo, que se produce en una cuarta parte de los embarazos, es la…
Harm-reduction groups say that requiring a doctor to sign off on their orders of the…
In January, California’s Medicaid program will begin offering nontraditional services —such as ridding homes of…
Patients with other ailments are frustrated, and nurses and doctors are stressed and burned out,…
California wants to hold nursing homes accountable for the quality of care they provide by…
In tough labor negotiations across the nation, here’s what nurses don’t want: “appreciation that is…
Although covid vaccines have been available to children as young as 5 for more than…
Even before the omicron variant of covid starts to spread widely in the U.S., hospitals…
Like almost everything else associated with the covid-19 pandemic, partisans are taking sides over whether…
New, often lower-cost plans capitalize on the convenience of telemedicine — and patients’ growing familiarity…
The law says nonprofit hospitals are supposed to offer low-income patients financial assistance. But the…
Here’s an out-of-the-box idea: Have letter carriers spend less time delivering mail and take time…
Biologic drugs, made from living organisms, and the cheaper biosimilar drugs that mimic them are…
Congress is back in session with a short time to finish a long to-do list,…
Drought, wildfires, extreme heat: California lawmakers cast climate change as the culprit in an emerging…
Zoom in on states with overall good vaccination rates and you see a checkerboard effect,…
Back-to-school season has fueled immediate covid outbreaks. Instead of beefing up protections, some districts are…
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week…
Veteran health journalist Marshall Allen has been exposing health care grifters for years. Now he’s…
Aduhelm, approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month despite questions about its efficacy,…
Experts say rural communities must find new models to keep emergency services afloat as more…
The World Health Organization this week updated its guidance on children and covid vaccinations —…
What’s known as emergency room boarding of psychiatric patients has risen between 200% and 400%…
Long before covid, music therapists used singing and wind instruments to help COPD and asthma…
Pressure is mounting on Congress and the Biden administration to make permanent pandemic-inspired rules that…
Besides shared culture and values, a Black physician can offer Black patients a sense of…
Two medical schools vie to open in Montana, highlighting the rapid spread of for-profit schools…
California lawmakers are debating a bill that would eliminate out-of-pocket costs that often prevent people…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has outsourced his way through the covid-19 pandemic, tasking his private-sector…
The pandemic has demonstrated that virtual medicine is great for simple visits. But many new…
The Biden administration is bucking the drug industry and backing a waiver of covid-19 vaccine…
All agree that covid vaccines are urgently needed to stop the pandemic, but simply waiving…
Relatively Few Drugs Account for a Large Share of Medicare Prescription Drug Spending Juliette Cubanski Follow…
Annuity products could emerge as saviors in helping to rescue retirees from the “tsunami” of…
A member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee said Wednesday that he wants…
As more people return to air travel, tension is mounting in airports nationwide. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson…
A misguided federal program called the Unapproved Drugs Initiative, which put the FDA’s stamp of…
Like many states, California is seeing huge regional variations in covid vaccination rates for people…
The emergence of an organization for med students motivated by progressive concerns highlights the changing…
Dr. Linath Lim came to the U.S. as a refugee after slaving at work camps…
As of Wednesday, the KHN-Guardian project counted 3,607 U.S. health worker deaths in the first…
If you’re like most people, you’re washing your hands more often than you used to. …
With so much conflicting information circulating about coronavirus, you may find yourself confused about what will…
As you surely know by now, the coronavirus doesn’t look the same in everyone it…
Coronavirus disease (also known as COVID-19) is dominating the news and sending people across the…
Gilead Sciences said Wednesday preliminary results of a coronavirus drug trial showed at least 50% of…
On 11 March, the World Health Organization classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. The…
Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
The Paycheck Protection Program has exhausted its $350 billion allocation and is not accepting any…
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service reversed their stance late Wednesday that Social Security…
The U.S. is short of ventilators. It’s something American manufactures aim to change—rapidly. It is a…
Security and tech experts have warned that hackers are now resorting to emails and apps…
Calls for fiscal relief involving 401ks are growing louder, with The Wall Street Journal joining the American Retirement…
It’s a carbon tax. A new report by consultants at Oliver Wyman shows that the world’s financial…
Insurance investors delivered a clear verdict today: They’re a bit worried about how a severe acute…
Can a term policy be sold in a life settlement? Yes! Yes! Yes! Like a…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The coronavirus outbreak has yet to spread meaningfully to U.S. shores,…
As part of its efforts to ensure the supply of medical products from China during…
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday updated its list of fictitious regulators and firms…
WASHINGTON — “They say millennials are lazy,” billboards plastered across 15 major cities declared last…
t’s a story that happens all too often. Angie Kennard’s father had met someone on…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is urging investors to be on the lookout for investment…
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has confessed that it’s “very hard” to understand…
The rate hike is part of a broader package of proposed “refinements” for Medicare Advantage…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified Congress on Sunday that it may…
In the past week, I have received more than a dozen phony calls on my…
Health insurers are expected to make it more difficult on Presidential candidates pushing single payer…
California wants to become the first state to create its own prescription drug label, Gov. Gavin…
More U.S. retirement savers should probably buy ordinary annuities before they retire, but they don’t, and…
Walmart is expanding benefits available through its telehealth program, which offers associates $4 virtual care…
When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, it will not only usher in a…
On December 31, 2019, a three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the methodology…