By Judith Graham Alzheimer’s disease has an unusual distinction: It’s the illness that Americans fear most — more than cancer, stroke or heart disease. The rhetoric surrounding Alzheimer’s ...

By Julie Rovner Republicans are in a hurry to get their “repeal and replace” health care bill to the House floor. In just the week since ...

There’s a warning out today for those who go online or to apps to figure out why they have an upset tummy or nagging cough ...

During the past few years, Oregon has quietly become a prime location for women willing to carry children for those unable to get pregnant. There ...

Donna Miles didn’t feel like getting dressed and driving to her physician’s office or to a retailer’s health clinic near her Cincinnati home. For several ...

Repealing the federal health law would add an additional 19 million to the ranks of the uninsured in 2016 and increase the federal deficit over ...

A bipartisan group of House and Senate legislators introduced bills last week that would require health plans to cover the growing number of oral chemotherapy pills as ...

After taking a 10-year break from practicing medicine to raise four sons, Kate Gibson was ready to go back to work. The family practitioner had ...

In the U.S., an average of 21 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant, and the wait times can range from four months for a heart ...

Nurse practitioner Martha Brinsko helps a lot of patients manage their diabetes at the Charlotte Community Health Clinic in North Carolina. “Most mornings when you check your ...