The outcomes of this fall’s elections will profoundly affect Americans’ ability to access affordable, equitable health care.

A senior woman with a walker opens mail in her mailroom. When Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are denied coverage for ...

Many early discoveries of how poverty and other social risk factors shape the trajectory of disease are the result of researchers leveraging large datasets to study rare events. One was the Dutch ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. Although the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

Moving the needle on health care access and health disparities is no easy task. Inequities for people of color are embedded in the U.S. health system, shaping their health care journeys and often ...

After many decades of largely abstinence-based efforts to curb substance use in the United States, harm reduction has become a central tenet of the nation’s strategy for reducing overdoses.

In 2022, public health authorities detected polio in wastewater in London and in New York, where a polio infection was also reported. 1 Reductions in childhood vaccination rates during the COVID-19 ...

Medicare beneficiaries, many of whom live on fixed incomes, look for ways to make the costs of health care more affordable. Prescription drug costs comprise about one-quarter of beneficiaries’ ...

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., is an Emeritus Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor of the casebook Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in ...

Eugene Litvak, Ph.D., the CEO of the Newton, Mass.–based Institute for Healthcare Optimization (IHO), has spent nearly 20 years working to improve the quality and efficiency of health care services by ...