Travelling to Japan is still safe despite the influenza outbreak there but precautions must be taken, say health experts and ...

As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is now recommending that alcoholic beverages carry a warning about the risk of cancer ...

Alcohol consumption has been linked to an increased risk of several types of cancer. WHO classifies alcoholic beverages as ...

And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned home since the ceasefire, the extent of the environmental devastation is ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

A man is in hospital with a potentially deadly virus that can also cause permanent brain damage after he was bitten by an ...

More than half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community College's criminal justice program adding a mental health course.

Critics of the Louisiana surgeon general's decision warned that when vaccination rates go down, "you get worse outbreaks." ...

Coercing weaker nations rather than engaging in diplomatic solutions reflects the fundamental flaw of Trump’s unilateralism.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on January 20, two federal agencies responsible for monitoring and responding ...

A new study tied eating at least 2 servings of yogurt per week to a lower risk of an aggressive type of colorectal cancer.