The rising rates of diabetes, obesity, and other health conditions make people more vulnerable to invasive strep, which can trigger flesh-eating disease and be life-threatening. Other news is on toxic ...
As the fires burned in Los Angeles, scientists and local air regulators deployed monitors to measure the levels of heavy ...
Some rural hospitals have canceled — or are considering ending — contracts with insurance companies that offer Medicare ...
Pharmaceutical companies accused of fueling the nation’s opioid crisis are paying state and local governments billions of ...
The GOP-controlled Congress is weighing cuts to Medicaid, the government health program that covers millions of Americans — ...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass firings included people who fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of ...
Some of the layoffs will be to compensate for those rehired after the first wave. Meanwhile, Politico reports on how HHS had no intention of rehiring 20% of the departments' fired employees, as ...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of ...
From halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has ...
Policy experts extended the program's depletion date to 2052 after determining that enrollees aren't seeking hospital care as often as they used to, leading to savings in the main trust fund. Medicare ...
Health care price transparency is one of the few bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. But much of the information that ...