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With health care expenditures soon to reach 19 percent of U.S. Gross National Product (GDP), the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee announced the...

“It makes no sense to discourage patients from taking drugs that prevent emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and more expensive care when there is non-compliance,”

“Some of the people at the hospital didn’t even know what the treatment was. Eventually, I reached someone who seemed to be the only single point of contact for this, and I managed to get her in the next day.”

In an official Health Advisory issued on September 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerted clinicians nationwide that the approximately 124,000 evacuees from Afghanistan, including 6,000 U.S. citizens, could include people carrying measles, mumps, leishmaniasis, malaria, and even polio.

Despite dropping out of the race for president in August, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is turning up the volume on reforming national health care...

Research supporting the Biden administration’s favored “social determinants of health” theory of “health equity” is flimsy, according to a study from the Manhattan Institute. The...

Americans are taking prescription drugs over longer periods of their lives, and the trend is raising new questions about the costs’ impact on the...

John Mackey, well-known as the founder of Whole Foods, has launched a new health care company called Love.Life. In July 2023, Mackey sent out a...

A patient in Canada says her clinician asked if she might consider assisted suicide, the Globe and Mail reported on August 9. A 37-year-old Vancouver...

The one group that has been noticeably absent from these discussions is the doctors who actually deliver care. For almost half a century, this country...