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 ...
Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in ...
The U.S. will be seen as a pariah in the global community if it does not play a collaborative role in preventing the next ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last week, Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the WHO because of the “organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises ...
“With enough H5 in these animals and enough seasonal flu in humans, you get them together, and you have a recipe for a potential pandemic virus.” The recent bird flu outbreak is being regarded ...
More than two years into the pandemic, British Columbia's COVID-19 case distribution report in July 2022 showed the city had an infection rate by far the lowest in the Lower Mainland and less than ...