Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a Thursday directive from the Trump administration. It can ...

This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal ...

Louisiana health officials appear to have deviated from the usual steps for public health communications amid a whooping cough outbreak after it killed two infants. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) When ...

Federal health authorities have taken the "unprecedented" step of instructing states to investigate certain individuals on ...

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has been reversing decades of accepted public health practice in Florida and embracing untested therapies. “We’re done with fear,” he said after being named ...

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled ...

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many ...

Antoinette, a refugee who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, is bracing for the loss of her federal food benefits. “How am I going to manage?” she worries. (Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News) ...

California now has a law requiring hospitals and clinics to improve patient privacy and have clear protocols for handling ...