Physicians starting salary reaches $419K in 2025-26, with detailed data on 14 specialties and signing bonuses from AMN Healthcare.

The 2026 outbreak reveals strains on farmworkers, food inspections and disease tracking in a system where consumers demand fresh produce year-round.

On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.

Workers and employers are drowning in their health insurance premiums. The reason for that deluge: the health care industry’s high and inscrutable prices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its finalized GLOBE Medicare Part B drug price model…

The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...

Group's recommendations on cervical cancer screening, cardiovascular prevention were blocked

California is eliminating a key insurance hurdle for hepatitis C treatment, part of a broader push to get a long-available cure to the hundreds of thousands of patients who need it.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Programs Expected to Remain Stable in 2027The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced significant premium savings for millions ...

Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.

The analysis focuses on the 39 brand-name drugs listed on the TrumpRx site that do not have generics or biosimilars available in the U.S., of which 32 had publicly available prices in one or more of t...

President Trump and his aides boasted that every U.S. state wanted to participate in a drug pricing initiative through Medicaid. Several states said they weren't sure yet.

As health care costs dominate the national political conversation, our 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey shows the toll those costs are taking on women. Our new nationally representative survey of women ...

The Trump administration's efforts to lower drug prices included promised changes to Medicaid. But it's still unclear which drugs will be affected. And each state has to opt in.

Drugs like Trikafta, first approved in 2019, have changed cystic fibrosis from a death sentence to a manageable chronic condition for the vast majority of patients. But the drug is only approved for c...

The KFF/AP Rural Voters Survey examines the views and political priorities of voters living in rural areas across the United States ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The survey gauges rural voters'...

“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

Insulin still doesn’t cost $35. Here’s what it will take to make it truly affordable.

Thanks to Terry for sending: "Car in no parking anytime space at Lamont Park. Sign posted no parking g there for a reason. Geesh." Ed. Note: This was a big problem last winter when Meanwhile in Mount ...

The Trump administration has signed dozens of “most favored nation” (MFN) agreements with pharmaceutical companies, claiming to provide Americans with…

Key Takeaways Copies of Pfizer and Eli Lilly’s “most-favored nation” (MFN) agreements obtained by Public Citizen through the Freedom of…

Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.