Health

The the new tracking polls has findings which may give pause to Democratic presidential candidates preparing for the second round of primary debates, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday evenings on CNN. File photo: C-SPAN. WASHINGTON -…

Truvada, produced by Gilead Sciences, offers HIV prevention in a pill. Truvada can be used for what is called PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, the practice of using antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection. Photo Source:…

US President Donald Trump with White House Physicians following his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Whitehouse Photo. WASHINGTON - Last year, Dr. Ronny Jackson, then the White…

Amazon, along with a host of other technology companies, is working on ways to use its smart speaker devices to bring a range of health care services into your home.  File photo: Pixabay. SILICON VALLEY – Now that it’s upending…

Registered nurse Suzanne Hsu adjusts the robotic arms of a da Vinci surgical robot before an automated calibration of the machine at the Helford Clinical Research Hospital at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif., in 2006. Hospitals around the…

A growing number of expectant mothers are among the migrants pouring in daily from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador — even Haiti — to more than 30 already overflowing shelters in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo credit: Heidi de Marco/KHN TIJUANA…

After months of closed-door meetings and high-profile hearings, the Senate Finance Committee voted 19-9 to advance legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to rein in drug costs in the Medicare and…

One of the most significant proposals would cap price increases on brand-name drugs and biologic drugs covered by Medicare to ensure they do not outpace inflation, and triggering rebates when they do. File photo: Pixabay. WASHINGTON -…

After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive Sovereign Valentine’s huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care. Photo credit: Tommy Martino for KHN. PHILADELPHIA, PA –  Fresenius, one of the two largest…

Sovereign Valentine and his wife, Jessica, wait for a dialysis machine to filter his blood. Before finding a dialysis clinic in their insurance network, the Valentines were charged more than half a million dollars for 14 weeks of the…

NEW YORK – A cut in state funding will severely impact a program that helps people with disabilities remain in their homes. That’s the message advocates for people with disabilities want Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hear. …

A new effort in California aims to normalize workplace mental health in the same ways that employers already promote physical health, so that an employee having severe mental health symptoms feels comfortable taking medical leave. File…

Under the Trump administration, the FDA, which has oversight of all tobacco products, originally gave e-cigarette manufacturers until 2022 to file applications for approval for their devices, but a federal judge recently advanced the…

Corey Walsh, who began using the drug Truvada when it was about $400. With a monthly price tag approaching ,000, many private health plans have put the drug in a specialty drug tier with high co-payments or coinsurance. (…

For 25 years, the Violence Against Women Act has required any state that wants to be eligible for certain federal grants to cover the cost of medical forensic exams for people who have been sexually assaulted, yet for some who have been…

Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic says they have delivered the first baby in North America after a womb transplant from a deceased donor. The uterus was transplanted to the mother in late 2017, and the woman became pregnant through in vitro…

According to a court brief filed by a bipartisan group of economists and other health policy experts billions of dollars of private and public investment — impacting every corner of the American health system — have been made based on the…

According to the 2019 Match report, 8,116 internal medicine positions were offered, the highest number on record and the most positions offered within any specialty, but only 41.5% were filled by seniors pursuing their M.D.s from U.S.…

New York State's abortion law also protects the right to contraception, pregnancy and sterilization. Photo credit: Mathias Wasik/Flickr. NEW YORK - A mid-year report from the Guttmacher Institute on abortion access in the United States…

Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. Photo credit: Brice Engle, 2018. HOLLYWOOD, FL - I was "admitted" into Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, Florida in September 2018 for what ended up as cholecystectomy, the surgical…

According to a recent CDC report highlighted by the Washington Post, 54.4 million adult Americans suffer from some form of arthritis with the Arthritis Foundation saying that about 300,000 American children also have some type of…

A carnival cruise-line ship docked at Dominican Republic's Santo Domingo. Most recently, at least three Americans died under suspicious circumstances within a five-day period of time at adjacent resorts in the Dominican Republic. File…

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranks New York 42nd in the nation for the economic well-being of its children. Photo: Sean Locke Photography, Adobe Stock. NEW YORK - New York is one of the richest states in the…

Environmental Advocates of New York say a new bill would establish a list of chemicals that all public water supplies should be tested for, and set a deadline for the New York State Department of Health to implement testing. File photo:…

Three-quarters of New York City subway stations still are inaccessible for wheelchair users. (Tdorante10 ) NEW YORK - A federal class-action lawsuitclaims New York City's subway system has broken the law by failing to make stations…

TV, Netflix, Social Media in any medium, Video Games, and the like were never intended to be baby sitters or replace the importance of good, old-fashioned relationships. Parents need to recognize the imminent dangers of unobserved or…

NEW YORK - Wednesday was National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, and this year the focus is on HIV-related health disparities and barriers to achieving viral suppression.  In 2017, about 87% of the young adult clients in…