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 ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

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

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

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. In a small study, patients with the syndrome were ...