Managing a dental practice can be as overwhelming as managing a full-fledged corporate office. Juggling appointments, billing, and staff management can take away precious time from what you do best. Providing excellent dental care can take a nose dive. This is where dental practice management proje...

Marisol Pantoja Toribio se encontró un bulto en el pecho a principios de enero. Sin seguro y viviendo en California sin papeles, y sin su familia, la normalmente despreocupada mujer de 43 años se dio cuenta pronto de lo limitadas que eran sus opciones. “Yo dije, ¿Qué voy a hacer? …. “, recordó emoc...

KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29. Click here to hear Young on KCBS Read Young’s “AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change” KFF Health News contributor An...

In July 2018, FDA released the Biosimilars Action Plan (BAP), which outlined FDA’s approach for expanding access to biosimilars for the American public. The plan focused on 4 key areas: A recent FDA report reviews some of their accomplishments since then. Most of these efforts revolve around guidan...

In the 2020 elections, then-candidate Joe Biden and many of his congressional colleagues loudly advocated for a federal “public option” health insurance plan. It was framed, at the time, as part of his incoming administration’s response to the pandemic. “Low-income Americans will be automatically e...

Doctors in New York City performed the first-ever combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant on a terminally ill patient. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health carried out the first-of-its-kind operation on Lisa Pisano in two stages over the course of nine days earlier this month, according to ...

Arizona state House Speaker Ben Toma (R) is facing a reckoning as he tries to navigate the fallout from Arizona's Supreme Court decision enforcing an 1864 abortion ban.   Since the decision last week, Toma has twice helped block House Democrats’ efforts to repeal the ban on procedural grounds.   To...

Some consumers covered by Affordable Care Act insurance plans are being switched from one plan to another without their express permission, potentially leaving them unable to see their doctors or fill prescriptions. Some face large IRS bills for back taxes. Share Your Story Do you have experience w...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall, the highest-level alert, for heart pumps that have been linked to nearly 50 deaths. Impella heart pumps are used for short term support of pumping blood in the chambers of the heart’s ventricles during medical procedures or after a...

The Research Domain Criteria Initiative (RDoC) represented a new way to conceptualize the study of mental illnesses. In celebration of NIMH's 75th Anniversary, we reflect on the beginning and progress of this initiative.

Christian Espinoza, director de operaciones de una red de clínicas de tratamiento del sur de California, comenzó recientemente a emplear un nuevo asistente poderoso: un algoritmo de inteligencia artificial (IA) que puede realizar exámenes de la vista con imágenes tomadas por una cámara retinal. Rea...

Kate Middelton revealed a cancer diagnosis on March 22, saying it was discovered after a surgical procedure, which oncologists say is common. “In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London and at the time, it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous,” the princess of Wales said i...