June 11, 2023, 5:49am Health
For 35 years, this town’s residents have brought all manner of illnesses, aches, and worries to Kevin de Regnier’s storefront clinic on the courthouse square — and he loves them for it. Read story
June 11, 2023, 5:48am Health
Millions of Americans woke up to apocalyptic, orange skies Wednesday as thick smoke from wildfires in Canada moved across the U.S. Northeast, spawning air quality warnings from Massachusetts to Washington, DC. Read story
June 10, 2023, 6:12am Health
How can you check the air quality in your area and what do the numbers mean? Read story
June 10, 2023, 5:13am Health
It was a regrettable mistake. But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time. Read story
June 9, 2023, 1:45pm Health
Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. Read story
June 9, 2023, 1:30pm Health
Health advisers on Friday unanimously backed the full approval of a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, a key step toward opening insurance coverage to U.S. seniors with early stages of the brain-robbing disease. Read story
June 8, 2023, 8:21am Health
At Cleveland’s Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.” Read story
June 7, 2023, 9:38am Health
Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. Read story
June 5, 2023, 8:07am Health
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork. Read story
June 4, 2023, 12:46pm Health
As nationwide rates of fentanyl overdoses have grown into a public health crisis, experts have pointed to naloxone as a way to save lives. But years after Washington doubled down on efforts to get the medication into communities, the hunt for the drug remains often burdened with obstacles. Read story
