Trans Rights To Be Marquee Fight For House Republicans Believing voters in the 2024 elections rejected Democrats’ more inclusive positions on transgender rights, Republicans appear ready in 2025 to ...

Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’ drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in ...

Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the ...

Scientists Race To Stop Bird Flu Spread: The H5N1 virus, afflicting cows in 645 California dairies, is spreading so quickly that dairy farmers are calling it “Covid for cows.” Even as ranchers have ...

Angela Hart, senior correspondent, covers health care politics and policy in California and the West, with a focus on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, government accountability, and political influence.

Federal law says Native Americans aren’t liable for medical bills the Indian Health Service promises to pay. Some are billed anyway as a result of backlogs or mistakes from the agency, financial ...

Healthcare in Action, a California medical group that exclusively serves homeless people, has tapped into growing demand and funding for street medicine services. Three years in, the innovative ...

Julie Appleby, senior correspondent, has reported on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health care treatments and costs, trends in health insurance, and policies affecting hospitals and ...

Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor for health news analysis, joined KFF Health News in 2016 as editor-in-chief after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times. She had covered a ...

Colorado approved a new 6.5% tax on gun manufacturers and sellers aimed primarily at supporting crime victim services.

In 2017, the Republicans who controlled Congress tried mightily to slash federal spending on Medicaid, the government-funded health program covering low-income families and individuals. California, ...