News Briefs

By Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News Improvements in the government’s insurance Web portal have not translated into stronger public support for the health law, a ...

By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Mary Hualde, a navigator in Utah helping people sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, says healthcare.gov is ...

By Douglas E. Richards Psychopaths are everywhere. Many are violent criminals but many more are not. In fact, most people are shocked to learn that ...

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have shown that the presence of a particular protein in biopsied prostate tissue substantially increases the likelihood that cancer ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Kaiser Health News Many doctors are disturbed they will be paid less — often a lot less — to care for the ...

Unlike practicing physicians of today, the physicians of tomorrow are extremely positive about the future of medicine, with some 93 percent saying they are very ...

By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News The Democratic And Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the ...

PHILADELPHIA – The largest international Alzheimer’s disease genetics collaboration to date has found 11 new genetic areas of interest that contribute to late onset Alzheimer’s ...

By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News The troubled federal health insurance exchange will be fixed by the end of November — two weeks before the ...

By Ankita Rao Kaiser Health News In the face of projected doctor shortages and debate about the future of medicine, a record number of students applied ...