Lifestyle

Poverty, lack of access to affordable health care, and poor treatment are among the reasons Black people have worsening health outcomes.

Research underway in South Carolina aims to better understand how genes impact health risks such as cancer and heart disease. Project leaders seek a diverse pool of participants but, so far, have struggled to recruit Black residents.

When opposite sex couples are trying and failing to get pregnant, the attention often focuses on the woman. That’s not always the case.

A decade after the water crisis emerged, residents are struggling with higher-than-average rates of post-traumatic stress disorder.

There are efforts in Colorado and other states to roll back mandatory reporting laws, saying the result has been too many unfounded reports, and that they disproportionately harm families that are poor, Black, or Indigenous, or have members with disabilities.

Big health insurers that have contracts with state Medicaid programs find themselves making more money even as enrollment in Medicaid programs has dropped. Here’s why.

Technological advances including the widespread use of algorithms make it easier for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating, Lina Khan said at a KFF event.

Tires emit huge volumes of particles and chemicals as they roll along the highway, and researchers are only beginning to understand the threat. One byproduct of tire use, 6PPD-q, is in regulators’ crosshairs after it was found to be killing fish.

The EDUCATE Act would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit medical schools from getting federal funding if they adopt policies or requirements related to DEI, including promoting beliefs that a person’s sex, race, ethnicity or skin color makes them a member of an oppressed group, or that the US is a “systemically” racist country.

Decriminalization has led to cannabis that’s several times more powerful than it was decades ago — and researchers are worried.