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Its elements include inappropriate endearments. “Elderspeak can be controlling, kind of bossy, so to soften that message ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in Mississippi, and researchers warn of a resurgence ...

Congressional Republicans are looking to cut at least $880 billion from a pool of federal funding that includes Medicaid — ...

Citizen oversight is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to Health and Human Services ...

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost ...

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that’s ...

When a New York physician was indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the ...

In recent weeks, Social Security has been plagued by problems related to technology, system errors, and even the marking of ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH ...

On the surface, President Donald Trump embraced the MAHA movement with a pledge to end the nation’s high rates of chronic ...