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Birth control options have improved over the decades. Oral contraceptives are now safer, with fewer side effects. Intrauterine devices can prevent pregnancy 99.6% of the time. But no prescription drug or medical device works flawlessly, and people’s use of contraception is inexact.

Almost three years after the covid-19 pandemic upended workplaces, mental health coverage remains a priority for employers, according to an annual employer survey fielded by KFF.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black residents of this city on the Tennessee River could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville General Hospital. They were barred from the city’s other three medical centers.

A third of surveyed employers say their health plan’s network didn’t have enough behavioral health care providers

Though much coverage stays the same from year to year, there are a few upcoming changes for 2023

There's finally been a fix to the "family glitch" that made marketplace health plans sometimes unaffordable. And although premiums are rising, subsidies are too, and more people are eligible.

A breast ultrasound, sometimes called a sonogram, uses sound waves to take images of the breast tissue

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

Enthusiasm to vote is growing especially among Democrats and those living in states with abortion bans

A small group of states quietly withdrew from the largest public effort to track concerning behaviors in teenagers

A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a family with employer-sponsored coverage paid more than $22,000 on premiums during 2022.