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By Fernando Stein, MD The U.S. Senate’s health care legislation, at last unveiled today, fails to meet children’s needs. The bill fails children by dismantling ...

By Emily Kopp Attendees at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in San Diego this year — many of them young researchers who are active ...

Recognizing that obesity remains a primary health concern impacting an increasing number of Americans, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy during its Annual Meeting ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

By Phil Galewitz The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services ...