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A Quarter of Medicare Beneficiaries Spend Twenty Percent or More in Premiums and Out-of-Pocket Costs.

A new study from the Commonwealth Fund found, Fifteen million elderly and disabled American Medicare beneficiaries spend twenty percent or

(By Melissa Block for NPR) In rural Alaska, providing health care means overcoming a lot of hurdles. Fickle weather that

The bipartisan bill (the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017) is moving through both houses of Congress that addresses a critical

(By Richard Harris for NPR) Smell, the thinking goes, is not our strongest sense. Our lowly noses are eclipsed by

(By Rachel Martin, Ashley Brown, Barry Gordemer and Rebecca Hersher for NPR) In March, President Trump called opioid abuse in the U.S.

The new commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Scott Gottlieb, will have a full plate of issues

On Thursday, the bill that would reauthorize the pharmaceutical, medical device, generic drug and biosimilar user fee agreements that would

A recent Journal of Hospital Medicine study uncovered hospitals waited an average of 1,663.3 days, or a little over 4.5 years, to

(By Anna Gorman for California Healthline) Saying they are concerned about safety in California’s dialysis clinics, a coalition of nurses,

(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) President Trump’s pick to run federal mental health services has called for a bold reordering