Taking Account of Rising Health Care Costs

Have your out-of-network insurance bills skyrocketed? Chris Hamby, an investigative reporter for The Times, may have an explanation. Read More

This Change to My Family's Health Insurance Costs Us Thousands Per Year

Once my husband and I realized that we'd be going from no health insurance deductible to a giant one, we immediately sat down and started crunching numbers. And we made some changes to our budget to ... Read More

Bloomberg News: Health care is still too costly for Americans

America’s approach to health care ... The Affordable Care Act of 2010 made notable progress, but failed to solve the pressing problems of high costs and less-than-universal access. The ACA fell short ... Read More

The cost of health services vary within America's major cities—here's where they differ the most

Care Better used its database, based partly on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, to see how prices for the same services vary within a city. Read More

What the private equity crackdown means for health care deals

The private equity community is more focused on state-level merger regulation, as blue states like California strengthen requirements, Osak and a health care investment banker tell Axios. Could you ... Read More

PE-Owned Health Care Saw Bankruptcy Surge as Playbook Failed

Private equity-owned businesses accounted for a high number of bankruptcies in the health-care sector last year, and another wave of distress looms, according to a new report from an advocacy group ... Read More

Top Health News

Apr. 9, 2024 — In the largest study to date on the subject, researchers found no evidence to support a causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and ... Researchers Discover Urine ... Read More

Teen Health News

2 in 3 Parents Say Their Adolescent or Teen Worries About How Sick Days May Impact Grades Mar. 25, 2024 — Many parents recognize increasing mental health ... in the United States aged 18-55 ... Read More

Future of Health

2024 Healthcare & Pharmaceuticalscategory US FDA approves Daiichi, AstraZeneca drug for treatment of solid tumors April 5, 2024 Healthcare & Pharmaceuticalscategory AstraZeneca's Imfinzi improves ... Read More

Sexual Health News

June 12, 2023 — Women who used combined contraceptive pills were at greater risk of developing depression than women who did not, according to a new study. Contraceptive pills increased women's ... Read More

Joint Health News

Feb. 8, 2024 — A novel PET imaging technique can noninvasively detect active inflammation in the body before clinical symptoms arise, according to new research. Using a PET tracer that binds to ... Read More

Editorial: Health care is still too costly for Americans

The U.S. spends about 17% of gross domestic product on health care, half as much again as comparable countries — yet on many metrics, including life expectancy, U.S. outcomes are worse. Read More