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  • Close-up of senior woman holding a modern hearing aid, Brussels, Belgium

    Using hearing aids can be frustrating for older adults. Specialists say these 5 tips can help

    By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
  • Blue and white air ambulance rescue helicopter flying mid-air against a blue sky background

    Without Medicare Part B’s shield, patient’s family owes $81,000 for a single air-ambulance flight

    By Tony Leys and KFF Health News
  • Measles virus particle, computer illustration. This virus, from the Morbillivirus group of viruses, consists of an RNA (ribonucleic acid) core surrounded by an envelope studded with surface proteins haemagglutinin-neuraminidase and fusion protein, which are used to attach to and penetrate a host cell. Measles is a highly infectious itchy rash with a fever. It mainly affects children, but one attack usually gives life-long immunity.Health

    Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it’s fine to send unvaccinated kids to school

    By Amy Maxmen and KFF Health News
  • Close-up of senior black woman sorting weekly medication. Member of a black middle class America family.

    Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as Pharma lines up its lawyers

    By Arthur Allen and KFF Health News
  • In its early years, GoFundMe funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now it has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares. (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News)Health

    GoFundMe has become a health care utility

    By Elisabeth Rosenthal and KFF Health News
  • Image of an unrecognizable senior woman being assisted to walk using a walker by caregiver at park.

    Do we simply not care about old people?

    By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
  • Informational brochures on Medicaid expansion during an event held by New Hanover County Department of Health and Human Services at a library in Wilmington, N.C., on Dec.16, 2023. North Carolina's expansion of Medicaid began on December 1st, and its estimated that more than 600,000 people statewide are now eligible for healthcare coverage that they otherwise could not afford.Health

    Halfway through ‘unwinding,’ Medicaid enrollment is down about 10 million

    By Phil Galewitz and KFF Health News
  • WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 4: Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan speaks during a discussion on antitrust reforms at the Brookings Institution October 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. Khan assumed the role of FTC chair in June 2021 after being appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Politics

    ‘We are using all the tools we have’: Lina Khan’s FTC takes aim at Big Pharma’s ‘patent thickets’, arguing they keep old drugs too pricey

    By Elisabeth Rosenthal and KFF Health News
  • An elderly-white haired Mexican woman drives a car.

    Preparing to hang up the car keys as we age

    By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
  • Chantal Panozzo says she was confused to learn she and her husband each owed for their preventive screenings for colorectal cancer and wondered why they were receiving any bills at all. (Taylor Glascock for KFF Health News)Health

    The colonoscopies were free. But the ‘surgical trays’ came with $600 price tags

    By Samantha Liss and KFF Health News
  • exterior of a hospital emergency roomHealth

    Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • “In the health care system, it’s really hard to vocalize your needs when you are a woman of color because you come off as aggressive, or you come off as a know-it-all, or you come off as disrespectful,” Mila Clarke says. “My intuition was right this whole time, but nobody believed me.” (Brandon Thibodeaux for KFF Health News)Health

    These patients had to lobby for correct diabetes diagnoses. Was their race a reason?

    By Bram Sable-Smith and KFF Health News
  • asian chinese senior man looking for medical supplies in drug store pharmacy shop

    Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans

    By Sarah Jane Tribble and KFF Health News
  • Carolyn Williams lost her 47-year-old son, Haison Akiem Williams, to an overdose in February 2023. In June, she spoke at a protest outside a Drug Enforcement Administration building in Arlington, Virginia, where people called for an end to a criminal justice approach to addiction. (Aneri Pattani/KFF Health News)Health

    ‘They see a cash cow’: State and local officials overseeing billions in opioid settlements are deluged with product offers from companies hoping to cash in

    By Aneri Pattani and KFF Health News
  • Smiling woman doctor is wearing a lab coat and a stethoscope standing against white wall with medical reports in medical office. Copy space, cut out.Health

    Biology, anatomy, and finance? More med students want business degrees too

    By Samantha Liss and KFF Health News