Healthcare

Advocates with T1Internationals New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut Chapters hold a vigil in New York City, on Sept. 5, 2019, honoring those who have lost their lives due to the high cost of insulin and demand lower insulin prices.

How Healthcare Costs Hurt American Workers and Benefit the Wealthy

How is it possible that Americans pay so much and get so little?

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Millennials' Chronic Health Problems Will Limit Their Lifetime Earnings, Report Says

Spikes in conditions like depression increase health-care costs and lower i...

Spikes in conditions like depression increase health-care costs and lower incomes

Kidney Swaps Are Revolutionizing a Broken Organ-Donation System in the U.S.

2017 ended as a banner year for my family, but things didn’t look great at ...

2017 ended as a banner year for my family, but things didn’t look great at the start. A death sentence met us in a boxing ring, and we had to school ourselves on fighting to...

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The Health Care Industry Needs to Be More Honest About Medical Errors

Twenty years ago this fall, the Institute of Medicine—an U.S.-based indepen...

Twenty years ago this fall, the Institute of Medicine—an U.S.-based independent, nongovernmental organization widely regarded as an authority at the intersection of medicine and society—released a report titled “To Err Is Human.” It announced that...

Billing envelopes litter the floor of the shuttered Southeast Health Center
in Ellington, Missouri on July 19, 2019.

Democrats Need Rural Voters. Can They Win Them Over by Fixing Rural Healthcare?

2020 Democrats need rural support. Rural Americans need accessible speciali...

2020 Democrats need rural support. Rural Americans need accessible specialists and hospitals.

Health workers in protective clothing await patients in the outpatient lounge of Redemption Hospital, formerly an Ebola holding center, on Feb. 2, 2015 in Monrovia, Liberia.

Community Health Workers Are Vital; Governments Should Be Paying Them

Illness is universal, health care is not. Over half of the world's 7.3 bill...

Illness is universal, health care is not. Over half of the world's 7.3 billion people, including 1 billion in rural communities, lack access to health care. Approximately 13 million children still go without a single...

AI and Health Care Are Made for Each Other

Artificial intelligence has the potential to radically change health care. ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to radically change health care. Imagine a not too distant future when the focus shifts away from disease to how we stay healthy. At birth, everyone would get a thorough,...