Kaiser Health News

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

As temperatures climb across the country, health experts are concerned for the well-being of children.

The Biden administration’s latest plan to address opioid overdose deaths includes $30 million for harm reduction measures, but many conservative states don’t allow them.

A more nuanced approach has emerged: acknowledging that racial health disparities often reflect the effects of generations of systemic racism, such as lack of access to stable housing or nutritious food.

Researchers say the billions in pandemic funding available for ventilation upgrades in U.S. schools provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to combat covid-19, as well as making air more breathable for students living with allergies, asthma, and chronic wildfire smoke.

Eye exams for children are required under federal law to be covered by most private health plans and Medicaid, and many states mandate school vision screenings. But a federal survey finds that a quarter of children and teens are still not getting the recommended tests.

Hospitals call for more options as blood suppliers move to an expensive treatment method.

California lawmakers are considering changing nursing home licensing rules after more than 152,000 residents died of COVID-19 nationwide during the pandemic. The ambitious effort could cause other states to replicate California's measures to improve nursing home care.

In California, where overdose deaths are on the rise, physicians say administering anti-addiction medication as a monthly injection holds tremendous potential. So, why aren't more patients getting it?

How different are the seemingly endless stream of emerging omicron subvariants from one another and how protected are we?