If you're feeling extra stressed right now, it might not be your imagination, a new cardiology study says. Plus, news about aging and how to boost your longevity.

Nearly 20 million people gained health-insurance coverage between 2010 and 2016 under the Affordable Care Act. But about half of insured adults worry about affording their monthly premiums, while ...

Resistant Trichophyton Fungus Represents Emerging Threat In US  In a new JAMA Dermatology report, researchers describe 11 Trichophyton indotinea infections in New York City from May 2022 to May 2023.

Organizers in both states have gathered enough signatures to get initiatives on this November's ballots. Other abortion news is reported from Ohio, South Carolina, and other states.

The analysis can’t say definitively that talc causes cancer, and Johnson & Johnson—facing myriad lawsuits—maintains its products are safe. In other news, despite the social media trend, sunscreen is ...

A gene test could shed light on why some people will succeed in losing lots of weight with GLP-1 drugs; new data links stomach paralysis with injected weight loss and diabetes drugs; fallout from ...

Uber's new platform is about helping caregivers, letting them request and then monitor rides as well as deliveries of important materials and groceries. It's another indicator that health care at home ...

Meanwhile, Houston is being swarmed by mosquitoes after recent bad storms there. And the loss of a key Medicaid contract could upend children's and some adults' health in Texas, with about 450,000 ...

In other news, health officials are keeping an eye on meningococcal infections found in people who traveled from Saudi Arabia and a potential threat caused by a hepatitis A exposure in California.

Two years after increasing state and local public health budgets by $300 million annually, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to ...

Although American Indian and Alaska Native adults are enrolled in Medicaid at higher rates than their white counterparts, ...

KFF Health News and California Healthline staffers made the rounds on national and local media in the last couple of weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.