By Mary Agnes Carey As we get closer to 2014, consumers are being surrounded by news coverage, ads and opinions about the health law. And many ...

By Alan S. Horowitz Today’s doctor-patient relationships are under pressure. Providers face financial demands from the government and payors, and many feel forced to squeeze ...

By Alvin Tran When it comes to controlling the country’s health care costs, doctors point their fingers at lawyers, insurance companies, drug makers and hospitals. ...

By Karin Hehenberger, M.D., Ph.D. The prevalence of autoimmune disorders—such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis and type-1 diabetes—is comparatively high throughout the developed ...

By Jordan Rau Star wars may be coming to a hospital near you. Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other easily understood symbol to ...

By Jordan Rau Medicare last week added new features to its Physician Compare website as it prepares to start including quality data on thousands of ...

By Thomas K. McInerny, MD On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two historic decisions affirming the right of same-gender couples to marry. The American ...

Neurological surgeon David McKalip M.D., a Florida delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA), this week lead the effort to ensure the AMA would stand strongly in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously invalidated patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in response to a lawsuit filed by ...

By Ankita Rao Toni Lewis-Bennett remembers hesitating when she was asked to be an organ donor while applying for her driver’s license. But years later, ...