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The Decipher genomic test could help doctors decide which high-risk prostate cancer patients need abiraterone hormone therapy and which can skip it.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that more than 250 hospitals have signed a pledge to serve healthier meals to patients, advancing his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda’s focus on treating food as medicine. Speaking at a press conference hosted at the Corewell Health Lifestyle and Culinary Medicine...

A major hospital network in New Mexico was racing to fix a cybersecurity issue on Monday that forced it to send ambulances to other hospitals and left the state without an emergency department capable of treating the most serious injuries.

Roger Marshall’s billing practices have made the Republican stronghold surprisingly competitive.

Over 250 hospitals joined the Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge to cut processed food and added sugar from patient meals under Trump's health agenda.

‘Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill’

Multiple regions in the U.S. typically associated with lower costs of living have experienced rising affordability pressures, according to the Urban Institute.

‘non-invasive window into health’

The Trump Administration is piloting a federal program that uses artificial intelligence to help decide what care to approve or deny.

American workers are paying hundreds more for employer-sponsored health insurance in 2026, with family coverage contributions rising 9% as premiums outpace wage growth.

The Elevance Health Foundation awarded $4 million through its Patient Safety Prize to support solutions improving health literacy, medication safety and fall prevention.

Dr. Rachel Pessah-Pollack discusses new guidance from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on GLP-1 use during pregnancy.

Everyone in the United States should have access to affordable, accessible healthcare. It should be available no matter where you live, what you do, or how you voted.

From GLP-1 drug prices to higher deductibles, several Medicare changes could affect seniors' wallets in 2027.

As GLP-1 drugs help people eat less, doctors are increasingly concerned about what patients may be missing nutritionally.

Days before the midterms, as Americans prepare for historic cuts led by Republicans, the US Senate candidate catches a rising tide of interest in single-payer healthcare Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic US Senate candidate, starts this day on the campaign trail in Escanaba, Michigan, where nearby Wisconsin dairy country spills into dense forests and the sandy shores of Green Bay. This is the upper peninsula – the “UP” – a rural slash of land north of Michigan’s mitt. Electorally, it’s crimson. Donald Trump won some districts near Escanaba by more than 41%. But at the county fairgrounds, past sheds labeled “Beef” and “Swine”, hundreds of locals on the political left have gathered in the hangar-size 4H Club meeting hall to hear El-Sayed speak. Continue reading...

From GLP-1 drug prices to higher deductibles, several Medicare changes could affect seniors' wallets in 2027.

Health secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies. Continue reading...

A new investigation examines surgery errors, patient safety and legal barriers.

Thirty million Americans live with rare diseases that fall through the cracks of U.S. medicine. My mother is one of them, writes Christina Sher. To stay alive, she goes to Europe. Last spring, my mom woke up at 3 a.m., convinced she was dying. She was only 45, but her body was shutting down. Her legs had become leaden, and she couldn’t stand up. She slid off the bed, woke my father, and told him they had to get to the hospital. He carried her to the car in his arms while she vomited the whole way. What my mom didn’t yet know was that she was having an adrenal crisis, a life-threatening medical episode marked by blood-pressure collapse, brain swelling, and circulatory shock. A doctor injected her with a large dose of the steroid hydrocortisone, saving her life. A few weeks later, she was diagnosed with Addison’s, a rare hormonal disease that develops when a person’s immune system attacks and destroys its own adrenal glands. For two years, my mom had been visiting doctors to ask about her strange symptoms. She’d been hospitalized three times and saw 12 specialists. They’d offered several misdiagnoses. But it took a brush with death that night in a Florida emergency room to finally get the name of the disease she was suffering with. If only that was all it took to get the treatment, too.

Democrats across battleground districts are holding Republicans’ feet to the fire over the Medicaid cuts in their signature One Big Beautiful Bill law. In advertisements and on debate stages, the Democrats are hammering their opponents over their support for a law that will reduce Medicaid funding by nearly $1 trillion to pay for tax cuts primarily...

Brandi Glanville details the $5,000 exploratory surgery to remove what she believes is something alive moving beneath the skin on her face.

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From GLP-1 drug prices to higher deductibles, several Medicare changes could affect seniors' wallets in 2027.

Selena Gomez called vaping "stupid" after it altered her voice, but doctors warn the health risks go beyond vocal cord damage for millions.