Medicine & Policy

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 ...

What may have started with good intentions has gone too far and is now off-course. According to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractors ...

At their annual meeting today in Chicago, members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to adopt policy aimed at reducing and managing concussions suffered ...

Despite recent headline-grabbing legal challenges and reports of “botched” executions, most Americans still support the death penalty, according to a new HealthDay/Harris Poll. The online poll, ...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this week said he would sign a bill to ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy regardless of incest or rape. ...

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 ...

On a recent trip to Chicago, Patti Broyles felt like she was looking at the world from the bottom of a fish bowl. “This weather ...

Free means free. The Obama administration said Monday that health plans must offer for free at least one of every type of prescription birth control — ...

Requiring patients to get blood work and other tests before undergoing cataract surgery hasn’t been recommended for more than a dozen years. There’s good reason ...

By Victoria H. Johnson and Edward J. Cyran On February 3, 2015, the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deny ...