Health advocates and community members gathered in Washington D.C. in mid September to push the Biden administration to take additional action on medical debt in an event hosted by nonprofit Community Catalyst. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Community Catalyst hide caption
About 12 million Americans qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, and they face relentless red tape accessing health care. A bipartisan fix that could help them is in the works. Getty Images hide caption
Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Maria Hernandez says CARE Court will resemble the county's other collaborative courts, like her young adult diversion court, where compassion and science drive her decisions. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
A study of nearly 300,000 people in the U.K. found that people who maintained at least five of seven healthy habits cut their risk of depression by 57%. Maria Stavreva/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Terry Vester examines Charity Hodge at Vester's clinic in LaFayette, Alabama. Vester and her husband are the only primary care doctors in the community. Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News hide caption
Researchers used ChatGPT to diagnose eye-related complaints and found it performed well. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Nicole Blackmon says she is mourning two children, the teenager she lost to gun violence and her stillborn baby. She is suing Tennessee because she says abortion bans interfered with her care. Splash Cinema/Center for Reproductive Rights hide caption
Experts say the new COVID boosters are a much closer match to currently circulating variants than prior vaccines and boosters. Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kayce Atencio, who had a heart attack when he was 19, was unable to rent an apartment for years because of bad credit attributed in part to thousands of dollars of medical debt. "It always felt like I just couldn't get a leg up," says Atencio, one of millions of Americans whose access to housing is threatened by medical debt. Rachel Woolf for KFF Health News hide caption
People with diabetes who were prescribed fruits and vegetables, saw their blood sugar decline significantly. And adults with hypertension saw their blood pressure go down. RyanJLane/Getty Images hide caption
SEIU nursing home workers rally outside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg in 2022. The union is praising a proposed rule released Tuesday that would increase staffing levels. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania hide caption
President Donald J. Trump touted his plan to end the HIV epidemic during his 2019 State of the Union Address. The effort has sent $1.7 billion mainly to southern states. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
In 1975, a smallpox eradication team volunteer vaccinates a woman living in a Bangladeshi settlement known as a "basti." (Stanley O. Foster/CDC/WHO) Stanley O. Foster/CDC/WHO hide caption
President Biden hugs Steven Hadfield, a Medicare recipient who takes expensive drugs, at an event on prescription drug costs at the White House on Aug. 29. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
A woman walks in front of a house damaged by shelling in the city of Wukro, in Tigray, Ethiopia. A new report indicates that military forces have engaged in hundreds of sexual assaults on girls and women. Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Laura Laursen, an OB-GYN at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, has treated an influx of abortion patients from outside Illinois after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Marc Monaghan hide caption
A pregnant woman stands for a portrait in Dallas on May 18. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 20% of women reported experiences of mistreatment during maternal care. LM Otero/AP hide caption
Rep. Ann Johnson, a Democrat from Houston, authored a Texas law that doctors say will be life-saving for women with two pregnancy complications. She worked across the aisle with the author of S.B. 8. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Dr. Austin Dennard at her home in Dallas in May. She is one of 13 patients and two other doctors suing Texas over its abortion bans. LM Otero/AP hide caption
An analysis of court records by the state treasurer and Duke researchers finds Atrium Health in Charlotte, N.C., accounted for almost a third of the legal actions against North Carolina patients over roughly five years. Logan Cyrus for KHN hide caption
Dr. Reza Danesh, the MODO Mobile Doctor, has been treating patients affected by the wildfires on Maui. Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR hide caption
Dr. Alex Shteynshlyuger spends hours on the phone with payment processors like Zelis, fighting their attempts to impose fees on electronic payments. DeSean McClinton-Holland/Pro Publica hide caption
Nurse practitioner Arin Kramer prepares to insert a contraceptive implant under the skin of I'laysia Vital's upper arm, as physician assistant Andrea Marquez (rear) offers support. Vital will attend college at Texas Southern University in Houston, where most abortions are banned. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
Michael Hawley, general manager of the kitchen at Faulkner Hospital, places roasted tomatoes into a pot as he prepares the roasted tomato and shallot coulis. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption
