An experiment to provide meals to some Medicaid recipients shows food can be cost-effective medicine. But even as federal officials tout the power of nutrition, Medicaid budget cuts could lead states ...

California is crafting weaker heat protections for prisons than other workplaces, citing billions in costs to cool aging ...

Not all older people need benzodiazepines, antibiotics, or daily aspirin — and taking them can carry increased risks.

To get drugs and devices out faster, the FDA lets companies conduct studies of safety or efficacy after the products are approved. In many cases, such “postmarket” studies are behind schedule or ...

Officials at CHOP said they’re working to give all infants in the neonatal intensive care unit a preventative antibody treatment to help protect them from measles, WHYY reported. The potential ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tapped five medical specialists to serve on the panel that decides what preventive services health insurers are required to cover. Past members were clinicians ...

The true cost of “vertical integration”: patients directed to a higher-priced location for procedures. Or forced to buy from ...

As state governments grapple with how to determine who’s sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some ...

Native Hawaiians will have to comply with the new work requirements in President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful ...

States are spending rural health dollars on tech startups, betting that untested companies will succeed where doctors have vanished and hospitals have collapsed. Louisiana’s call for innovative ...

The case was brought by a marketing company that wants to define as employees people who download an app and agree to have their internet activity tracked so they can buy into its employee health plan ...