Health Care

A 2013 court ruling has paved the way for an incredible, costly expansion of home health care by removing a critical lever the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had to control who receives services, and for how long.

While science will certainly help, winning the battle against Ebola is a social challenge.

Placebos, nocebos, and the importance of communicating with our physicians.

While pro-life activists fight to rescue IVF embryos from the freezer, pregnant women in their third trimester with catastrophic fetal anomalies have nowhere to turn.

As the number of known infections climbs above 1,400, many questions about the virus and how it's spreading in West Africa remain.

You’ve seen Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers depicted on screens both large and small, but what health care workers are currently fighting in West Africa is worse than anything writers have dreamed up.