By Julie Appleby Kaiser Health News As the health care overhaul moves ahead, the nation’s health insurers are scrambling to reinvent themselves, hoping to boost ...

By Deborah J. Cornwall Cancer strikes without regard to political parties. Over time, one in two men and one in three women will hear the ...

By Michelle Andrews  Kaiser Health News Should doctors be able to ask patients or patients’ parents whether they own a gun? What about health insurers, ...

By Ramsey Dallal, MD, FACS The public’s appreciation of the dangers of obesity may have expanded recently, but unfortunately, Americans’ waistlines have continued to expand, ...

By Michelle Andrews With the passage of a ballot initiative this month, Massachusetts became the latest state to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, joining 17 others and ...

By Shefali S. Kulkarni The game of football isn’t played without its share of injuries. Look at just one of yesterday’s marquee games: The contest ...

By Michael Calahan Teaching hospitals and health care entities with faculty practices that host residency programs have long attempted to balance proficient, high quality resident ...

By Ankita Rao, KHN U.S. doctors are no longer the laggards when it comes to using health information technology in their practices. But they are ...

By David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Andrew Taylor, CFP® As financial advisors to hundreds of physicians throughout the U.S. and lecturers to thousands more, ...

By Sarah A. Parker, Software Advice There are many challenges that come with being a health care professional. However, there are a number of difficulties ...