Kff Health News

Fewer than half of rural U.S. hospitals offer labor and delivery services. In some areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the baby boom’s peak.

If the case knocks out the mandates, state-level laws — which vary widely across the country — would carry more weight.

MitraClip was designed to spare patients from open-heart surgery by snaking hardware into the heart through a major vein.

Pain is a squirrely thing. It’s sometimes burning, sometimes drilling, sometimes a deep-in-the-muscles clenching ache.

Though researchers estimate that PMDD affects around 5% of people who menstruate the condition remains relatively unknown, even among health care providers.

Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals in the United States have either closed or stopped providing in-patient care.

Overall, estimated new HIV infection rates declined 23% from 2012 to 2022. But a KFF Health News-Associated Press analysis found the rate has not fallen for Latinos as much as...

Their plans to expand coverage illustrate key ideological differences on the government’s role in subsidizing health insurance for kids.

Nationwide, only about two dozen of the more than 1,500 eligible hospitals have become rural emergency hospitals since the program launched last year.