KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...

By Brent Cunningham In “Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster,” FERN’s latest publishing partnership with The New York Times opinion section, science journalist and FERN contributor Maryn ...

In 2024, the CDC worked with the WHO to respond to a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda that lasted for several months. On average, about half of people infected with Marburg virus do not survive, so ...

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in ...

Michael Horne, the CEO of the Parkland Health Foundation, started in education. He wants to build a North Texas and a Dallas ...

The president, still angry about the pandemic response, may be cutting into the country’s fundamental ability to identify ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...

In 2022 alone, more than 108,000 people died in the U.S. because of an opioid overdose—a staggeringly high death toll that has abated little since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Drug ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resumed publishing its weekly scientific report Thursday after an ...

KIPP AMP Middle School teacher Victor Taylor ... The Wrestling Club started in early 2021 as the shutdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic were nearing their end. Perry had rekindled his childhood ...