Here’s How Obamacare Helped Women Get More Mammograms
A new study shows the Affordable Care Act helped more women get mammograms—but not colonoscopies.
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Are the Latest Baby Monitors Doing Anyone Any Good?
Pediatricians argue that consumer infant heart rate and oxygen monitors haven’t been tested thoroughly and could cause parents…
The Vast Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
The way we think about disease “is being subtly distorted” by financial ties, the authors of an editorial…
How Last Night’s Obamacare Votes Could Affect Addiction Care
In a first step to repealing the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans struck down two provisions that are…
What an Obamacare Repeal Would Mean for Mental-Health Treatment
If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, what’s going to happen to the tens of millions of Americans…
Coming to and Caring in America
We can’t separate the conversation on care from that on immigration. By Mariatu Santiago (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)…
How Perez Hilton Set the Stage for Kanye West’s Medical-Records Breach
Electronic medical records made it easy to both peep and catch peepers at confidential patient information. By Francie…
Spending on Medicare’s Drug Program Is Out of Control
Forty-one health providers prescribed more than $5 million in drugs in 2011. Last year, that jumped to 514.…
As More People Sign Up for Health Insurance, America’s Health-Care Costs Go Up
Prescription drug costs also grew. By Francie Diep (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Health-care spending in the United States…
What’s the Matter With Medicare?
Behind the GOP’s 2017 Medicare reform plans. By Dwyer Gunn Paul Ryan leaves after a news briefing on…