A bill intended to improve medical care and behavioral health access for children in the custody of the state is scheduled ...

In a May 8 letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided exclusively to KFF Health News, Wyden, the top Democrat on ...

FDA commissioner Marty Makary told FDA staff in an email that Prasad, “brings a great set of skills, energy, and competence ...

PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top health official joined Arizona lawmakers in the state ...

Felisa Hagins, executive director of the Oregon State Council of the Service Employees International Union was among several ...

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined 19 other attorneys general in filing the lawsuit. He was also part of a coalition ...

Eight states — New York, Maine, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington — have passed laws ...

Kitzhaber has prominence on the national stage thanks in part to Oregon’s reforms. About a decade ago he was considered one ...

The state broke ground in October on the new 350-bed facility at Western State Hospital in Pierce County. Work began in ...

A paramedic has filed a federal lawsuit for $1.5 million accusing the Morrow County Health District of “flagantly unlawful” ...

The public outcry comes at a time when the agency, which oversees care to more than 1.4 million low-income people, is dealing ...

The nonprofit Northwest Pilot Project works to reduce housing insecurity among elders. The organization is not in the health ...