Health Care

A new principle in medicine focuses on understanding patients’ values, not assuming they share your own

Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID’s mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people

To detect and stop disease outbreaks similar to COVID, health professionals must test for pathogens, share data widely and be prepared with a response

The country’s highest court will decide whether Americans who rely on public assistance can sue states when they believe their rights have been violated

Hospitals and health care workers are making voter engagement a part of whole-person health care

Once available only with a prescription, hearing aids can now be purchased at Walmart and other stores for $199 and up

Crystal Lee grew up the granddaughter of Navajo medicine men. As COVID wreaked havoc on her community, she decided to act

A spike in diabetes during pregnancy, worsened by the pandemic, raises the risk of chronic diabetes, heart disease and birth complications

Medical discrimination and a lack of data make it difficult for people of color to get help for post-COVID problems

A skeleton missing its lower left leg and dated to 31,000 years ago provides the earliest known evidence for surgical limb removal

In-school clinics improve well-being and educational outcomes and serve children who need them most

A respiratory therapist and former Army medic shares what we need to learn from the COVID pandemic