Patients who are treated by a female physician could live longer and have a reduced risk of hospitalization, new research has ...

Kim Albin has lost count of the number of times she’s had to battle health insurance companies over medications. Albin, who ...

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about 25 percent of all disease in the world, yet it has just three percent of the healthcare ...

Both male and female patients are more likely to die or be readmitted under the care of a male doctor, but the risk is even ...

When you make an appointment with a physician, it’s becoming more and more likely that you will be seen, not by an MD, but by ...

Pediatrician Patricia Braun and her team saw roughly 100 children at a community health clinic on a recent Monday. They gave ...

A bill in the Illinois legislature would limit the power of insurance companies by attacking a process known as utilization management to deny coverage to ...

A new study finds little change in the number of people taking a key medicine for opioid addiction even though it's now ...

The unique circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic altered a long-held convention that doctors provide care ...

A Tennessee mother, Monica Kelly, was around 13 weeks pregnant when, according to a lawsuit filed against the state of ...

Doctors and patient advocates decry the practice, saying it can prolong patients’ symptoms or worsen their conditions when they’re not quickly put on the medications prescribed by their doctors.