The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

Tens of thousands of public health workers and their supporters are demonstrating in the Spanish capital to demand more staff in primary health care centers

A nearly $370 million contract promised to improve health care for state wards. But, for two years, Centene’s YouthCare program fell short on basic care, leaving foster parents scrambling.

The healthcare industry tends to withstand macroeconomic pressure better than other industries due to the almost inelastic demand for medical products and services. With a recession expected next year, investors could look to capitalize on the defensive characteristics and long-term prospects of the industry by investing in quality medical stocks…

The European Union is planning to provide Ukraine with around 18 billion euros in financial aid next year to help the war-ravaged country keep its energy and health care facilities running, and to fund salaries and pension schemes

A change in the companies managing health care for more than 118,000 people sickened by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has proven a nightmare for many enrolled in the program.

Doris Spatz takes a once-a-day pill, Kisqali, to keep her metastatic breast cancer in check. As a patient in the Defense Department health system, she can fill routine prescriptions at a military pharmacy without a copay but also has the option of using a regular pharmacy through Tricare, the Defense…

Australians living in regional and remote parts of the country could soon have access to specialised health care for diseases such as cancer as a Queensland-led telehealth program expands nationally.

“I can still pass out blankets and give popsicles to kids” in the ER, one hospital COO, a board certified urologist, told Fortune. “It allows nurses to do what they need to be able to do—nursing.”

The Australasian College of Emergency Medicine calls for health care reform after its inaugural report reveals grim statistics about presentations to Northern Territory emergency departments.