Travelling to Japan is still safe despite the influenza outbreak there but precautions must be taken, say health experts and ...
As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is now recommending that alcoholic beverages carry a warning about the risk of cancer ...
And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned home since the ceasefire, the extent of the environmental devastation is ...
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 half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community College's criminal justice program adding a mental health course.
Critics of the Louisiana surgeon general's decision warned that when vaccination rates go down, "you get worse outbreaks." ...
A new study tied eating at least 2 servings of yogurt per week to a lower risk of an aggressive type of colorectal cancer.
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...
The World Health Organization released new findings on Friday about an "alarming" lack of awareness about alcohol's link to ...
A case of bird flu in a wild goose was detected this week in Boulder County, officials said, adding the detection was a good ...
Multiple outbreaks of the measles have been reported so far this year, with one outbreak in Texas ballooning from six cases ...