More than 60 years ago, policymakers in Colorado embraced the idea that early intervention could prevent child abuse and save lives. The state’s requirement that certain professionals tell officials w ...

Many older adults needing hospital care are getting stuck in emergency room limbo — sometimes for over a day — affecting ...

U.S. Veterans Affairs offers disability to Vietnam vets sickened by Agent Orange. But people exposed on U.S. bases have not ...

How much longer will the last refusenik states hold out on Medicaid expansion — passing up billions of dollars in federal ...

The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses ...

The president and his congressional allies were vocal proponents of a government-run alternative to commercial insurance back in 2020. But the health-care industry has kept the idea bottled up.

Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty ...

The apps represent one of the Democratic governor’s major forays into health technology and come with four-year contracts ...

Big health insurers that have contracts with state Medicaid programs find themselves making more money even as enrollment in ...

About 3.6 million Medicare enrollees may qualify for coverage for the anti-obesity drug Wegovy, according to a KFF analysis ...

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While human beings of all races and ancestries are more than 99% genetically identical, even small differences in genes can ...