I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again. Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed. 🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Boatloads of ivermectin, little evidence or oversight. “This is about political identity. This is about creating distrust in the existing biomedical community. This is about money,” said @caulfieldtim.bsky.social By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social & Brett Kelman kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

“Folks coming from all over the world to get our ivermectin”: Tennessee pharmacies are selling potent ivermectin pills. Here’s how it happened. https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/ivermectin-pharmacies-tennessee-anti-vaccine-doctor-denise-sibley/

Tennessee pharmacies are selling potent ivermectin, led by an anti-vaccine doctor who's taken "bucketloads" The state was the nation's first to allow adults to buy the drug at a pharmacy without individual prescriptions By Brett Kelman + me @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

The Trump administration’s new regulations say having a medical condition alone isn’t enough to avoid Medicaid work requirements. “This is a recipe for disaster,” one patient advocate says. kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/tru...

The Trump administration’s rollout of a mandate that millions of Medicaid enrollees work or risk losing benefits is forcing states to scrap months of preparation. States had already committed to paying contractors millions to comply w/the law. @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/tru...

After nearly 40 years shaping the health policy landscape, our founding president and CEO Dr. Drew Altman announced he’ll retire at the end of the year. Larry Levitt and Dr. Mollyann Brodie have been appointed by the Board as the new leadership team.

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Hundreds of foreign doctors planning to treat underserved patients in the U.S. are in limbo. If the government doesn't expedite their visa waiver applications, most will have to leave by the end of July. @ajzionts.bsky.social reports ⤵️

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a law that will strip health and food benefits from millions. "This is a pretty big payday,” one expert told us. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

“There’s been a fundamental destruction.” Scientists are leaving the National Institutes of Health in droves under President Donald Trump. @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social & @k-hought.bsky.social report on what's left behind ⤵️

Thousands of Minnesotans are still too scared to leave home, even for desperately needed medical care. So doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks to bring that care to them.

“It’s clear when someone comes out with a drug and now you’ve just cured a disease. But you never know which ones could have been cured...We don’t know what we’ve lost.” Data by @hackwriter.bsky.social Our full investigation is below. More on the people and work lost: www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

The number of people employed at the NIH is at its lowest level in at least two decades. Hear from six scientists run out by Trump and the work they left behind on cancer research, tick-borne diseases, and more. Me + @k-hought.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Katheryn is truly one of the best. Give her a follow to see all her work @kffhealthnews.org

The National Cancer Institute’s decision to do lab research on ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment has alarmed the agency’s career scientists. “I am shocked and appalled,” one scientist said. @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social reports ⤵️

The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. New from me @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My latest: A look inside the secretive immigration prisons at Guantanamo—and the ethical questions that doctors and nurses face to treat those inside.

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Scoop: The Trump admin is planning to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, per person familiar. The proposed new schedule would recommend fewer vaccines, bringing it close to or in line with Denmark’s schedule. Comes weeks after Trump demanded an expedited review: www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...

This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug. We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

RFK laid out his plans to wreck vaccine science & policy in books, speeches, podcasts & films before becoming Health Secretary. @sherylnyt.bsky.social & @by-cjewett.bsky.social track how he's succeeding in impressive detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... eg:

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

My latest, with @kffhealthnews.org and @usatoday.com: RFK Jr. wields the country's biggest bullhorn on health. Here's what he wants to talk about -- and what he doesn't. (For example, skipping Father's Day posts): www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours. She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump. Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

🧵HHS today announced that Martin Kulldorff has been hired to advise Secretary Kennedy on science policy. Kulldorff is one of many in government who share ties to the Brownstone Institute, a think-tank whose associates seek to limit the government’s role in protecting Americans from disease.

“In the U.S., if you’re receiving federal money, then we, essentially, we weren’t given any choice” — Why leading sources of U.S. cancer information will soon classify a patient’s sex as only male, female, or unknown. @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

US Cancer Registries, Constrained by Trump Policies, To Recognize Only ‘Male’ or ‘Female’ Patients For decades, registries have been the most comprehensive U.S. tool for understanding cancer rates and identifying troubling trends. Via @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care. Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

BREAKING: Common health conditions such as obesity and diabetes could prevent immigrants from obtaining U.S. visas under guidance the Trump administration issued Nov. 6. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Quite the lede on this Arthur Allen @kffhealthnews.org story on the medical freedom movement in Florida kffhealthnews.org/news/article... "...several hundred gathered to honor state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, his wife, and an unlicensed Canadian radiologist who treats cancer with horse paste."

Senators are demanding answers from Deloitte and other companies about errors in eligibility systems that determine who qualifies for Medicaid. The letters follow a KFF Health News investigation exposing problems that resulted in people losing health benefits. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

🚨 "Sick to my stomach." That's how the researcher who found a link between Tylenol and autism felt when she realized MAHA would link her analysis to vaccines. My latest exclusive @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

WOW. ACIP has decided it will NOT vote on whether to postpone the birth dose of hepatitis B at this meeting. They are not at all aligned on why, though. Some believe postponing to 1-month of age isn't long enough. Meissner now pointing out the "overwhelming evidence" supporting the birth dose

NEWS: By vaccinating babies at birth, the U.S. nearly eradicated hepatitis-B in children. Kennedy's vaccine advisory panel is expected this week to recommend delaying the shot, opening a window for kids to be infected. Exclusive by @jackie-fortier.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We previously reported that the number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center - known as America's research hospital - declined from February-April. Since then, I obtained newer data through mid-August. And it's gotten worse. youtube.com/shorts/yT5Vc...

We previously reported that the number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center - known as America's research hospital - declined from February-April. Since then, I obtained newer data through mid-August. And it's gotten worse. youtube.com/shorts/yT5Vc...

As 40 states get ready to roll out Medicaid work requirements by 2027, the man in charge of Michigan’s former system says it would be “more honest” if Republicans just kicked people off insurance. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"Kennedy wants to see the Pfizer and Moderna messenger RNA-based covid-19 vaccines pulled from the market, according to two people familiar with the planning who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorized to speak to the press," @stephaniearmour.bsky.social reports.

The Trump administration's cuts of public health funds to state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of where someone lives, a new KFF Health News analysis shows. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

🚨🧵My latest: As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding. The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Federal immigration authorities detained a woman seeking medical care at the National Institutes of Health’s flagship research hospital after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security.

NIH documents viewed by KFF Health News show a pronounced decline in patients at the 200-bed NIH hospital from February through April, after the Trump administration began mass firings of federal workers and its broad crackdown on immigration. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Are you a cancer patient whose care at the NIH Clinical Center has been affected by the Trump administration’s cuts? Are you a family member or caregiver of a cancer patient who has received care at the NIH? We’d like to hear about your experience. kffhealthnews.org/cancer-patie...

Important story from @kffhealthnews.org today about how firings and contract cuts have led to an exodus at the NIH Clinical Center, limiting how many patients can be treated. “Every day seems to be some type of breaking point,” one NIH worker said.