Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of ...

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices.

Poverty Has Gotten Worse In California: The state’s overall poverty rate soared to 18.9% in 2023, according to research released this week by the California Budget & Policy Center. That’s up from 16.4 ...

ATLANTA — On a recent summer evening, Raymia Taylor wandered into a recreation center in a historical downtown neighborhood, the only enrollee to attend a nearly two-hour event for people who have ...

SIKESTON, Mo. — I wasn’t sure if visiting a cotton field was a good idea. Almost everyone in my family was antsy when we pulled up to the sea of white. This story also ran on The Emancipator. It can ...

Every family has secrets. I spent the past few years reporting about racial violence in Sikeston, Missouri. Interviewing Black families there helped me uncover my family’s traumatic past, too.

Community members and students gather around a flagpole on the Apalachee High School campus near Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 8, leaving flowers and messages to memorialize the four people killed in the ...

When Jessica Staten’s kidney stones wouldn’t pass, she said, her doctor suggested a procedure to “blow ’em up.” She went to have it done last November at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, ...

Andrew Douglass, who is homeless and lives on the streets of San Francisco, gathers his belongings as the San Francisco Police Department orders him to move off the sidewalk, where he has slept for ...

Missoula is one of Montana’s largest cities but is surrounded by rural mountain communities where cattle ranching is king. Despite the latitude and altitude, in recent years this region has ...

Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the ...