Insights

With the addictive combination of ingredients in the recently approved prescription cold medication Rezira, is the syrup an accident waiting to happen?

Sifting through the two major competing proposals for Medicare reform, one key question emerges: What will they really cost taxpayers and beneficiaries?...

A new study of mosquitoes' end-run around malaria nets should challenge our assumptions about other worthy public health interventions.

I thought online patient engagement communities were by patients, for patients. I was wrong: many of them are corporate data mining engines looking for your most personal medical information.

How North Carolina reporters "outsourced for expertise" in their groundbreaking investigation of hospital profits, and more tips from the award-winning series.

This year's Health 2.0′s Code-a-thon led to a Twitter app that may prevent suicide, a disaster triage smartphone app and tools for remotely reading medical tests. Read about the 2012 award winners from one of the competition's judges.

Doctors are debating whether to lower the blood-sugar threshold for determining whether a woman has with gestational diabetes. If that happens the number of pregnant women treated for gestational diabetes could more than double.

What you can learn from a hard-hitting investigation that doesn't vilify hospitals for wanting to make a profit.

It's great to get a national reporting internship. It's even better when you land an important lead poisoning story on the front page of USA Today - after only a month on the job.

California’s so-called “Human Right to Water package” is a group of bills that would expand efforts to improve water quality in California. Who's behind the lobbying for these bills, and what money is involved?