Judith Graham, a contributing columnist, writes the “Navigating Aging” column for KFF Health News. She has covered health care for more than 30 years. She’s been an investigative reporter, national ...

Coping with disability — and the cost of coping with disability — is an enormously important issue for older adults. Nora Super, an expert on aging, shares her personal story.

The generation that faced discrimination, ostracism, and the AIDS epidemic now faces old age. Many struggle with isolation ...

Across the country, trash incinerators disproportionately overburden majority-Black and -Hispanic communities. Though the ...

KFF Health News senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the incoming Trump administration — notably, the possibility of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human ...

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A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to pay a total of up to $100 million to settle Justice Department allegations of ...

People across the nation claim cancer-causing emissions from local sterilizing plants are making them sick. It’s an example of environmental racism, say residents of one predominantly Black area in ...

NPR’s “Bill of the Month” thousands of questionable bills. Our crowdsourced investigation paved the way for landmark ...

Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the ...