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This is a key year to think about making a switch due to trends in Medicare Advantage plans, rising prescription costs and Medicare itself.

Complaints about HNEH hospitals made up more than 18% of all complaints in 2022-23.

In coverage for key areas including immunizations, mental health and well-child visits, insurers fail to deliver for those 26 and younger.

Small, community hospitals face challenges in paying for the capital improvement projects they need to stay open.

Just 18 facilities were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals so far. Advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are needed to widen the reach and keep health care in rural communities.

The Chinese AI developer is looking to float its medical device and diagnosis business Xunfei Healthcare Technology in Hong Kong

We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people. Smallpox claimed 30% of those who caught it, and survivors were often scarred and blinded. More recently, we’re all too familiar with the…

Advocates for LGBTQ rights have announced a lawsuit to block enforcement of Louisiana’s new ban on transgender health care procedures including hormone treatments, gender reassignment surgery or puberty-blocking drugs for anyone under 18

Postpartum depression is not the “baby blues.” And the consequences, if left untreated, can be devastating.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.

New Mexico’s governor is proposing a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year to shore up housing opportunities, childhood literacy and health care access, with additional payouts for electric vehicles purchases