Insights

The new documentary "Money and Medicine" investigates the dangers the nation faces from runaway health care spending as well as the dangers patients face from over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

Paul Krugman connects the dots between rising income inequality and Americans dying earlier.

Reporters investigating the impact of valley fever in California dug up striking information about the disease's financial costs to taxpayers. Here's how they did it.

Could the head injuries so common in pro football lead to more Alzheimer's deaths among NFL players?

Can the developed world’s science be more effective at improving global health, particular for developing nations?

Medicare might seem like a national story, but it isn’t exclusively the province of Beltway reporters. Like all health care, it’s local.

Health editor jobs at Women's Health Magazine, Time Warner Cable and more!

Four words a parent never wants to hear when leaving the hospital: "your baby has MRSA." What went wrong?

A noted scientist examines shaky science in a New York Times op-ed about autism. Do science and scientific arguments have a place in op-eds at all?

Three journalists in the West have come out with refreshingly thorough and thoughtful treatments of local shaken baby cases, while a steady stream of plea bargains flows under the news net....