Cuando su médico falleció repentinamente en agosto, Tammy MacDonald se sumó al grupo de aproximadamente 17% de adultos en Estados Unidos que no tienen médico de atención primaria. MacDonald quería encontrar un nuevo doctor de inmediato. Necesitaba que le renovaran la receta de sus medicamentos para la presión arterial y quería agendar una cita de…
The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. “There are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did — ivermectin, in particular — did engage in sort of…
More Americans than expected enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year, after premium subsidies were dramatically cut — but it remains to be seen whether they’ll keep the coverage as their costs mount. It’s all part of a drama that roiled the ACA’s 2026 open enrollment period. Congressional debate over whether…
It’s not well known but there’s a lot of people in hospitals who spend a lot of time creating patient registries for quality programs, CMS reporting, clinical trials and lots more. It requires extremely detailed abstraction of patient data from patient records and comparisons with registry demands. Wouldn’t it be clever if an AI system…
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration’s new immigration detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This posting combined Donald Trump’s longtime passion to use the offshore base to move “some bad dudes”…
A small Tennessee hospital that was destroyed by a surging river during Hurricane Helene will soon be rebuilt on low-lying farmland that could face several feet of flooding in a much smaller storm, risking another disaster if the new facility is not built to withstand extreme weather, according to a KFF Health News analysis. Ballad…
Republicans have hitched themselves to the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign, banking on its popularity to give them an electoral bounce. But the strategy carries risks. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who rails against Big Pharma and ultraprocessed food, is the leader of the movement. And Americans’…
KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed concerns about health care costs following the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits on CBS News’ CBS News 24/7 on Feb. 5. Rayasam also discussed rising health insurance costs on WUGA’s The Georgia Health Report on Jan. 30. Click here to watch Rayasam on CBS…
As Gov. Gavin Newsom spars with President Donald Trump and courts national attention for a potential presidential bid, at home he’s catching flak from the left and the right on health care. The California Democrat came into office promising to fight for “guaranteed health care for all,” and he came close to achieving it. Really close. But as it turns out, that’s easier said than done when you’re juggling chronic budget deficits, rising health care costs, and shrinking federal support. Now he’s walking…
That is the title of a paper I published today in Journal of Market Access & Health Policy with co-authors by Karim EI-Kersh, Nadine Zawadzki, Catelyn Coyle, Shurui Zhang, Dhruv Dalal, Anna Watzker, and Dominik Lautsch. The abstract is below: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and cancer share high mortality and complex prognoses. Due to PAH’s…