Author: Brad Broker

When a medical error leads to patient harm, it’s hard to argue that no one is more upset than the patient’s family.  However, it’s often overlooked…

Chest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiting to…

By Stephanie O’Neill Air Force veteran Billy Ramos, from Simi Valley, Calif., is 53 and gets health insurance for himself and for his family from Medicaid — the…

By Julie Rovner As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tries to negotiate his way to a health bill that can win at least 50 Republican votes,…

By Julie Appleby An overhead light drawing attention to his face, actor Danny Glover starts to cry, dropping his head into one hand — then, he…

Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, according to a new study released by the American Institute for…

By Julie Rovner Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey last week were a pair of in-depth interviews President Donald…

By Julie Rovner If there’s anything congressional Republicans want to do more than “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act it’s defund Planned Parenthood, which provides…

The new health care bill passed last month by the House would decrease the number of insured Americans by 23 million over 10 years if it…

By Julie Appleby New York Medicaid regulators aim to use the threat of imposing increased scrutiny of prescription drugs — such as eyeing their relative…