With Few Dentists and Fluoride Under Siege, Rural America Risks New Surge of Tooth Decay 
Montana Examines Ways To Ease Health Care Workforce Shortages 
‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers 
ADHD May Raise Dementia Risk 
New Brunswick crisis phone line to close, woman says service saved her life 
Journalists Analyze Issues of the Day: RFK Jr., Bird Flu, L.A. Fires
KFF Health News senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed what to watch for in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings for...
Imaging Reveals Gut-Brain Connection in Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists have used advanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography (XPCT) to uncover how gut health may influence Alzheimer’s disease. The study found...
Most Insurance Covers IUDs. Hers Cost More Than $14,000.
During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill. “We decided the best option...
Oral Bacteria Linked to Stroke Risk
A new study finds that the bacteria Streptococcus anginosus is more abundant in the saliva and gut of people who...
Telehealth Companies Boost Ad Spending While Taking on More Complex Medicine
Shannon Sharpe was having one of those 15-minutes-of-internet-infamy moments. Social media blew up in September after the retired Denver Broncos...
Trump’s Funding ‘Pause’ Throws States, Health Industry Into Chaos
States and the nation’s health industry were thrown into disarray after the Trump administration ordered Monday that the government freeze...
REM Sleep Delays May Indicate Early Alzheimer’s
Delayed rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that participants with delayed...
An Arm and a Leg: The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — For Dysfunction and Profiteering in Health Care
Every year, a health care think tank called the Lown Institute ranks the 10 worst examples of “profiteering and dysfunction”...
A Program To Close Insurance Gaps for Native Americans Has Gone Largely Unused
A few years before the covid-19 pandemic, Dale Rice lost a toe to infection. But because he was uninsured at...
AI Mimics Toddler-Like Learning to Unlock Human Cognition
A new AI model, based on the PV-RNN framework, learns to generalize language and actions in a manner similar to...