Japan's radiation may have reached California shores, but experts say your health won't be affected. Plus more from our Daily Briefing.
Is your drugstore selling your prescription information to the pharma industry? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.
This story is Part 6 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Indiana.
In the next three years Methodist Hospitals Northlake in Gary faces perhaps the greatest challenge of its 101-year history.
Health care reform is expected to reduce the rolls of uninsured Gary patients and expand health care access to thousands. But by 2014 the city’s only acute care hospital must figure out how to replace millions of dollars in government funding scheduled to disappear.
A father who lost his 11-year-old son to leukemia last year is one of five plaintiffs in a suit filed Feb. 15 in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., challenging a 1984 federal ban on compensation for donors of bone marrow.
What state governor said the chemical BPA could "give women little beards?" Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.
Prescription drug costs continue to climb for West Virginia, despite efforts to rein them in.
West Virginia's two Republican U.S. representatives voted with GOP colleagues Wednesday to overturn federal health care reform.
As drug-related deaths continue to rise, state funding for patient outreach is on the decline. This story is part of a series that examines prescription drug abuse in Kentucky.
A Commonwealth Fund survey compares the states on childrens' health care access and treatment, and California ranks in the bottom quartile.
As 2011 unfolds, I’d like to share some of my favorite health journalism – some but not all of it policy-related – from 2010. This is definitely not a best-of list, but rather journalism that can inspire and teach us. Here are my first five picks, and below are my second five, in no particular order of importance. Do you have other recommendations for must-read health journalism from last year? Share it in the comments below.
