Medicine & Policy

By Lisa Gillespie Climate change is happening, and with that will come more deaths from heat-related illness and disease, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, ...

By now, you’ve heard about the execution-gone-bad in Oklahoma where inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack forty minutes after his lethal injection began and was abruptly ...

By Jordan Rau Medicare’s release Wednesday of millions of records of payments made to the nation’s doctors comes as the government is looking to find more ...

By Mary Agnes Carey The Obama administration took a victory lap Tuesday as enrollment through the health law’s exchanges topped 7 million, a goal previously thought ...

By Alan Lyndon To say the launch of Healthcare.gov last October was a disaster is being overly generous.  It was worse than that.  It was ...

By Brad Broker Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday made it clear that he does not like President Obama’s choice for Surgeon General and plans to ...

By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News Dealing with the aftermath of a suicide or attempted suicide is stressful enough. But some health plans make a harrowing experience worse ...

By Brad Broker Another major endorsement for the plan introduced by Congress to repeal and replace the SGR.  The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), ...

The mandated implementation of the ICD-10 code set will be dramatically more expensive for most physician practices than previously estimated, according to an updated cost study released ...

By Brad Broker The American Medical Association (AMA) announced Monday its support for the proposed legislation to repeal and replace the SGR. “The Sustainable Growth ...