The long read: Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the ‘default’ human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded.

America has seen decades of consolidation of its hospitals, raising prices for consumers. President Biden now wants to do something about it.

A new analysis by Johns Hopkins University reveals the tactics hospitals use to pursue patients with unpaid bills.

The study shows that people with lower income and education have worse lung health, even though air quality has improved in recent decades.

Overview of the demographic and educational characteristics, employment settings, direct patient/client care provision, and other provider-related information for licensed health service psychologists in the United States.

“If she was my mom, I would take her to the hospital,” Dr. P.J. Parmar said through a barely cracked car window to a refugee family from South Asia on April 11. Parmar, who runs Ardas Family Medicine in Aurora, had been the family’s doctor for years. He knew the woman sitting in the backseat […]

Prioritizing health of the world’s population would add 10 healthy years in midlife and $12 trillion to the global economy .