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Healthcare leaders at last year’s HIMSS global conference and exhibition shared a positive outlook on the growing role of artificial intelligence in healthcare’s ongoing transformation. This year, HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf expects the conversation to advance to key use cases that healthcare o...

Prime Highlights:  Bird flu detected in Butler County, Pennsylvania, affecting 610 birds in a non-commercial backyard flock.   Recent Ohio outbreak impacted 90,000 birds at a commercial egg layer farm in Mercer County.  Over 7 million birds in Ohio and 2 million in Pennsylvania have been affected b...

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

More than 100 million Americans struggle with regular access to primary care, which a report from the National Association of Community Health Centers attributes to a shortage of providers in their geographic areas.  During the 2025 ViVE conference in Nashville, Tenn., leaders from rural health syst...

Congressional Republicans are pushing plans that could make deep cuts to Medicaid to finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and other priorities. At stake is coverage for millions of low-income Americans, as well as a huge revenue source for hospitals — and every state.

New York is suing some of the largest vape distributors for allegedly fueling the country’s youth vaping epidemic. New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit against 13 major e-cigarette manufacturers, distributors and retailers for illegally marketing and selling popular flavored...

States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are particularly aggressive in their pursuit.

The Trump administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid has impacted family planning resources used by hundreds of thousands of women, girls and couples abroad, causing a number of health clinics to shut down and hindering the supply chain for contraception. In the first week after President Trump s...

Scientists, researchers and private health organizations scrambled to preserve as much federal public health data and guidelines as possible last week after news reached them that the Trump administration planned to pull down federal agency websites. Many have taken that data and moved it to persona...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education. The NIH said it provided over $35 billion in grants to more than 2,500 institutions in 2023, announcing tha...

Prime Highlights: The flu has led to school closures in some areas, including Godley Independent School District in Texas, where hundreds of students and staff were affected. CDC estimates show 24 million flu illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths, including at least 57 child fatali...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday to protect the identities of health care providers prescribing abortion medication.  The move comes days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a patient living in Louisiana. Under the...