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KFF Health News contributor Sarah Boden discussed cats and bird flu on KVPR’s “Central Valley Daily” on Feb. 12.
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Those Valentine flowers might come with a bit more than vivid colors and a nice scentPARIS -- Those Valentine flowers might come with a bit more than vivid c...
Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights...
Nearly 8% of outpatient visits for respiratory illness last week were for flu.The rate of Americans visiting doctors' offices for flu-like illness continues ...
For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis. The government has funde...
NSYNC’s Lance Bass shares his journey with type 1.5 diabetes, also known as latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). Josh Brasted/Getty Images
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In a surprising announcement, Louisiana's surgeon general announced late Thursday that the state health department "will no longer promote mass vaccination."...
Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probati...
The Quaker Oats Co. has recalled 10,000 boxes of pancake mix because it contains milk not declared on the label and could pose a risk of potentially dangerou...
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vo...
Bird flu is continuing to spread across the U.S., and experts say they are "concerned" as public health officials attempt to control the virus.Last week, the...
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they ar...
Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines about surprise medical bills, bird...
The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination.”NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass v...
A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to “shield laws” e...
The veterinary practitioners never reported respiratory or influenza symptoms.Blood samples showed evidence of past bird flu infections in veterinarians desp...
Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed stu...
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For the first time, the death rate for the flu is higher than the mortality rate for COVID-19. Daniel de la Hoz/Getty Images
The CDC reports the hig...
RFK Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform aims to help reduce the growing chronic disease burden in the United States. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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America’s health secretaries, almost as a rule, have résumés manicured to a point of frictionlessness. Once in a while one will attract scandal in their tenu...
