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When Preston Nafz was 12, he asked his dad for permission to play lacrosse. “First practice, he came back, he said, ‘Dad, I love it,’” recalled his father, Lothar Nafz, of Hoover, Alabama. “He lives for lacrosse.” But…

Sara McGinnis was pregnant with her second child and something felt off. Her body was swollen. She was tired and dizzy. Her husband, Bradley McGinnis, said she had told her doctor and nurses about her symptoms and even went…

Californians with medical debt will no longer have to worry about unpaid medical bills showing up on their credit reports under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, adding the nation’s most populous state to a growing…

En lo que se ha convertido en un patrón de diseminación de desinformación sobre las vacunas, el Departamento de Salud de Florida está aconsejando a sus residentes mayores y a otros en mayor riesgo de covid-19 que eviten la mayoría…

Georgia is one of dozens of states that require health-care facilities to ask for permission to build or expand by obtaining “certificates of need.” Basically, state regulators get to decide whether a town needs a new hospital or…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon .” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on “Meet the Press,” Sept. 15 Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sept. 15 told viewers of…

Every year more than 10,000 taxpayer-supported public housing units are lost to disrepair. But federal lawmakers routinely ignore the full amount, around $115 billion, needed to keep the units in “decent, safe and sanitary”…

In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from covid-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially…

Noam N. Levey and Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer Illustration by Oona Zenda North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy…

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer. “Sorry it has taken this long for paperwork to…