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  • Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).Health

    ‘Forever chemicals’ found in freshwater fish, yet most states don’t warn residents

    By Hannah Norman and KFF Health News
  • Cropped shot of a nurse holding hands with a senior patient

    Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors—but not hospitals and doctors

    By Julie Appleby and KFF Health News
  • Nora Super, formerly the executive director of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging and director of the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, suffered a severe spinal cord injury in July. “I still have a voice, and I can help people understand what it is to live with physical limitations in a way that I’ve never really understood before,” Super says.

    She once advised the president on aging issues. Now, she’s battling serious disability and depression

    By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
  • As many patients seeking an appointment can attest, the nationwide shortage of PTs is real. According to survey data collected by the American Physical Therapy Association, the job vacancy rate for therapists in outpatient settings last year was 17%.Health

    Back pain? Bum knee? Be prepared to wait for a physical therapist

    By Mark Kreidler and KFF Health News
  • UNITED STATES – APRIL 18: FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce hearing titled “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission,” in Rayburn Building on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Health

    Lina Khan speaks out about FTC’s private equity lawsuit: ‘We’re putting the market on notice’

    By Harris Meyer and KFF Health News
  • Close-up of female pharmacist arranging drugs on rack. Confident owner is at pharmacy. She is working in medical store.Finance

    Biden administration is cracking down on pharmacy middlemen, but they’re so powerful it might be too late to help independent drugstores

    By Arthur Allen and KFF Health News
  • Lynn Rosenquist, Lanny RosenquistEnvironment

    Millions of Americans might be poisoning themselves because they don’t test their well water

    By Tony Leys and KFF Health News
  • Rocky Mountain Cannabis is one of four retail marijuana stores in Dinosaur, Colorado, a town of just 315 people. (Markian Hawryluk/KFF Health News)Health

    Pot boom revitalizes the tiny town of Dinosaur, Colorado: ‘There’s money running out of our ears’

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • Bridget Narsh received a letter from the North Carolina attorney’s general office asking for immediate payment of son Nathan’s medical bill. Nathan lives with autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD, and was hospitalized for more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. The hospital billed the family nearly $102,000 for Mason’s treatment. (Eamon Queeney for KFF Health News)Family

    A mom was billed $102,000 for her son’s hospital stay. It shows everything that can go wrong in American health care

    By Fred Clasen-Kelly and KFF Health News
  • A chemotherapy patient recovers from treatment in a chair as a doctor speaks with her.Health

    Insurers are bypassing hospitals and delivering pricey chemo and other infusion drugs via third-party pharmacies

    By Samantha Liss and KFF Health News
  • Senior couple with medication video chatting in telemedicine appointment at laptop in dining roomHealth

    The U.S. federal government relaxed online drug prescription rules during the pandemic. Now it wants to rein them in

    By Arielle Zionts and KFF Health News
  • Senior woman and her adult daughter looking at photo album together on couch in living roomHealth

    How to negotiate with aging parents who resist support? Borrow these tips from business

    By Judith Graham and KFF Health News
  • A pharmacist waiting on a customer at a pharmacy counterHealth

    A Colorado panel of medical and pharmacy experts will decide whose medicine to make affordable this summer

    By Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News
  • STRAFFAN, IRELAND – APRIL 25: Tim Walbert, Chairman, President and CEO of Horizon Therapeutics attends the Horizon Irish Open announcement at The K Club on April 25, 2022 in Straffan, Ireland. The K Club to host Horizon Irish Open in 2023, 2025 and 2027. (Photo by Patrick Bolger/Getty Images)Health

    How Horizon Therapeutics sold to Amgen for $27.8 billion without ever licensing a drug of its own

    By Arthur Allen and KFF Health News