Health

Trump Administration Finalizes Rule to End Federal Support for Gender-Affirming Care

Move blocking funds through Medicaid and Chip to make it harder for vulnerable children to get healthcare, experts say

Taylor Swift has put her love story out there – so it’s not fair she won’t let us see her wedding dress

How a bride decides to look on the big day tells us a lot about that person. But the singer is leaving us hanging

What end-of-life experts know about living well: love your wrinkles, celebrate birthdays and don’t obsess over work

How can our understanding of mortality shape the way we live? Palliative care doctors and death doulas share the lessons they have learned

My husband was kicked out of hospice for dying too slowly. Here's what I learned about navigating hospice care.

August 13, 2026 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News

Sign up for the Detox Your Kitchen newsletter on avoiding potentially harmful chemicals in your food

This seven-week course will teach you easy steps to avoid potentially harmful chemicals in your food and kitchen - from mercury to PFAS. Created with Consumer Reports, the leading independent consumer organization in the US

The Gravitational Pull of Supervising Kids All the Time

When so many people think hovering is what good parents do, how do you stop?

‘Living proof damaged landscapes can recover’: exploring a vast restored forest in southern Sweden

Söderåsen national park is one of Europe’s largest protected broadleaf woods, offering wild swimming, spectacular hiking trails and an inspiring story of regeneration

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for figs with raspberry cream and cat tongue biscuits

Combine these simple Italian baked treats with chilled fruit and thick cream for a playful summer pudding

'I ran away to Paris to be a writer and ended up begging': Bill Nighy on dashed dreams, golf emojis and playing a cranky novelist

As his new film & Sons hits the screen, the actor turned podcast agony uncle relives his ‘cliched’ ambitions, deplores working lunches – and yearns to do the splits like Prince

I’ve been on plenty of dates

Call it a crisis, call it a decline, call it a recession: the long, lusty snog is in trouble, harder to experience in real life or even watch on screen. But why? And what’s it like to think you may never lock lips with another?

Surrogate mother who fled to Texas gives birth to baby with severe heart defect

McKenna West initially agreed to an abortion after diagnosis, but then fled to state where abortion is illegal and broke contact with biological parents, attorney alleges

Colombia earthquake death toll rises as frantic search for survivors continues

Tons of aid from regional partners began to roll into Colombia on Wednesday, as the search for survivors in the rubble of a powerful earthquake grew more desperate after the temblor razed buildings, buckled roads and crushed cars.