Health care reform law will increase demand, but low salaries are discouraging young doctors from entering primary care.
Shouldn't health insurers be celebrating the 16 million potential new patients being added to the rolls? Maybe not...
As public safety-net hospitals start to prepare for health reform, they'll need to help their patients find their way in a far different, and likely politically noisy, health care landscape. Here are some questions you should be asking now.
A journalist examines the state of health in his home town of Gary, Ind. and finds that his coverage sparks community-wide conversation and change.
Supermarket design and obesity, Mitt Romney walks the healthcare tightrope, and a promising HIV/AIDS study, plus more from our Daily Briefing.
Too many colonoscopies, budget deficits bog down California's health reform rollout and a rare case of bubonic plague, plus more from our Daily Briefing.
Journalist Yesenia Amaro examines how some small businesses will cope with health reform as their health costs for workers continue to soar.
Janna Rodriguez, one of the owners of J&R Tacos in Merced, wants to learn more about the specific provisions in the federal health care law designed to help small businesses such as hers. Her restaurant, which opened almost five years ago, employs eight part-time employees — and none of them receive health care benefits.
Whooping cough is still a major concern for California kids, tainted tomatoes are recalled, and more from our Daily Briefing.
Why are U.S. asthma rates going up when pollution and smoking are on their way down? Answers and more in our Daily Briefing.
