Changing how rural hospitals are paid is one way to shake up the system. Rural hospitals have...
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One of the strongest indicators of wealth in this country has become access to healthcare. Originally published...
Inspired by amber and hard candy, researchers figured out a new, needle-free, shelf-stable way to preserve vaccines....
Assisted living and other state-regulated homes were designed for healthier residents and are lightly regulated. By Emily...
Assisted living facilities are one option for seniors. But finding clear and accurate information about them isn’t...
Drug prices for many life-saving drugs have skyrocketed in recent years. The reasons may surprise you. The...
Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors billions of dollars for consulting, promotional talks, meals and more. Doctors who...
Americans who live in rural parts of the country have fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals than those...
For someone going through one, it’s devastating. And it happens far more often than you might think....
Pharmaceutical companies stand to lose big under a single-payer system, since it might enable the government to...
“$10,000 for 4 hours in emergency room, food poisoning. Didn’t even stay the night!” We asked a...
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...