One of the key lessons of the pandemic has been that this industry is utterly useless during a public health crisis.

A strike at St. Vincent Hospital ended this week with a big win for nurses, who had complained of dangerous patient-to-staff ratios.

Cerebral palsy was long considered a children’s condition. People aging with it face a dearth of research and health insurance that can’t comprehend their disability.

Rather than getting higher pay or more staff, medical workers are being forced to endure looser guidelines that put everyone at greater risk.

In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of overdose deaths surged past 100,000 for the first time in 2021.

A parallel health care market of direct-to-consumer primary care and medical apps has become further entrenched through the pandemic.

Big Pharma and cowardly leaders in the Global North have left poor countries vulnerable to the most contagious Covid variant yet.

Readers have long bickered over what actually ails Dickens’s famous Christmas tyke, but there’s no argument about how we can help children like him.

In the face of unprecedented opioid overdose deaths, the people most at risk can’t reliably access care—including life-saving treatments like methadone and buprenorphine.

Benefytt Technologies has been shaking off lawsuits and regulators for years. It’s now peddling Medicare Advantage plans to seniors—where if someone picks a subpar plan, the results can be disastrous.

By not getting these useful tools into everybody’s hands, we’re allowing the pandemic to flourish.

Lawmakers are touting a proposed cap on prices, but the benefit won’t swing to the patients with the most desperate needs.

Better go out and get that health care now, folks, because come January 1, you’re going to start paying for it again.

New medicines are on the way in the fight against the pandemic, but these life-saving drugs might get trapped in a maze of bad policy.

Kaiser Permanente’s proposal to cut wages for existing employees and pay new staff less has baffled union members, who only see the health system growing.

The celebrity mogul wants to kill our dysfunctional health care system with kindness, but it will take a lot more than that.

The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.

An abortion provider and a hotline operator warn that S.B. 8 is a proving ground for abortion restrictions around the country.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.