“$10,000 for 4 hours in emergency room, food poisoning. Didn’t even stay the night!” We asked a...
Health Care
Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in...
Medical culture has responded to consumerism. Americans are losing trust in their doctors, says Dr. Marty Makary...
The earliest reference to universal healthcare came in 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt. By Donne Levy Another presidential...
The last thing on your mind during a ride to the ER should be: Is this going...
Short-term initiatives to achieve universal coverage need to be complemented by an understanding of the factors influencing...
To help explain the policy and keep the vocabulary straight, here are a few key questions and...
Medicare for All would be a dramatic improvement over America’s immensely wasteful and deadly for-profit system. By...
Think about how much your income would go up if you didn’t have to pay for healthcare...
Why are prescription drugs so inaccessible and expensive in the United States? By Devin Duffy Rebecca Hovde...
Considered in historical context, Purdue’s plan to peddle opioid addiction medicines to vulnerable people is not so...
There are some silly arguments against Medicare-for-All, but one that gains a lot of traction: Can we...
Patents, patients, and stunted progress in pursuit of the dollar. By Deborah Gleeson and Hazel Moir Efforts...
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. By Domenica...
Researchers from the UK & Japan have identified how the brain’s natural painkilling system could be used...
Senior Anjali Misra, who is majoring in brain and cognitive sciences and minoring in music, is originally...
Lenora Cline, 88, in her bed at a nursing home in Whittier, California. Her daughter, Laurel Cline,...
What if it wasn’t back to the drawing board every year for a new flu shot? Andrew Kelly/Reuters...
By Dr. Shirley V. Svorny / 11.15.2017 Professor of Economics California State University Executive Summary One of...
Photo by Leslie Feinberg, Creative Commons By Sean Pevsner, J.D. / 07.21.2017 Brewminate Legal Analyst “Sen. Warren was giving...
A one-month supply of unused prescription drugs is stored at SafeNetRx, a prescription drug recycle program, in...
Image by Kasia Bogdanska, special to ProPublica An epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of health...
A protester is escorted away by police at a demonstration outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s constituent...