healthcare

On measures like maternal mortality, infant mortality and paid leave after birth, the U.S. lags behind comparable countries

Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since he left office in 2017

Federal regulators are suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s purchase of the technology company Change Healthcare, a deal announced more than a year ago.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday he is activating up to 500 members of the National Guard to assist hospitals with the COVID-19 surge and updating the state’s mask advisory. The state Department of Public Health released an updated mask advisory Tuesday urging all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask or face covering in indoor public spaces. They…

The program helps place primary care doctors in communities that have a hard time recruiting and retaining them.

Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The Affordable Care Act is now secure in the framework of the nation’s health care programs, and Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond.

Some U.S. employers and insurers want you to make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits

The half-hour special examines how the Black community is impacted disproportionality by the pandemic and explores the historical trauma that shapes the Black community’s relationship with the healthcare system.

NBC10 Boston morning news anchor Latoyia Edwards digs into the major disparities that exist in healthcare and the impact these disparities have on the Black community in a half-hour special, “Trauma: Racism in Healthcare.” The COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately revealed the devastating impact these inequities have on communities of color. Now with the vaccine rolling out; the Black community has expressed hesitancy...

President Joe Biden is pledging that his $1.9 trillion rescue package will build on the promise of the Affordable Care Act

Former Associate FDA Commissioner Peter Pitts breaks down five critical healthcare lessons that have come from the COVID-19 pandemic and explores why many of those lessons have fallen on deaf ears.

Studies show there is still a good deal of mistrust in the coronavirus vaccines as the first wave of shots is rolling out to millions of Americans across the country. Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Melissa Simon, both of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and who have both already received a first dose of the vaccine, talked to LX...

Federal agencies say cybercriminals are unleashing a major ransomware assault against the U.S. healthcare system.

COVID-19 represents the “largest mass fatality incident in modern New York City history,” prompting a surge in deaths that more than doubled the total reported to the medical examiner’s office over last year, according to a new report from the mayor’s office. The findings were part of the COVID-19 section of the Mayor’s Management Report for Fiscal Year 2020,...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Tuesday released a draft proposal for distributing a coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. if and when one is approved for public use.

President Donald Trump said Friday his four executive orders would lower drug prices to match foreign prices.

New research finds that cancer deaths have dropped more in states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act than in states that did not