Health care

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted claims about vaccines that contradict the overwhelming consensus of scientists.

“I know I have to do what I have to do to survive,” said Markus Forrester, a patient at the National Institutes of Health. Forrester was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder in 2013, but did not believe his complications would continue for more than a decade. His lungs collapsed seven times, and he’s still recovering from a double lung…

The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health will renovate their existing building and create a new one with more patients beds in a new project. News4’s Aimee Cho reports. 

A well-structured, holistic caregiving plan can help you manage these demands effectively, ensuring loved one’s well-being as well as your own.

Subsidies to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces are set to expire at the end of 2025. If they’re not extended, coverage could become unaffordable for many.

Whichever party wins control of the House and Senate must decide how to handle a slew of consequential policy matters.

Starting Friday, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients can get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.

Lindsay Pfeffer was in the backyard with her children when her son was bitten by a rattlesnake and needed antivenom medicine. Then the bills came.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

With thoughtful planning, you’ll be able to find a balance between work and caregiving without losing sight of what’s important.

Walmart will start delivering medications in six states, but it plans to offer prescription delivery in nearly every state by the end of January.

For those who have exhausted other options and find themselves searching for an effective and medically supervised approach, medical weight loss or surgical weight loss may be the answer.

As open enrollment kicks off, employees should weigh what their employer is offering in the way of benefits and what it will cost.

For many patients, these medications have been life changing, or even lifesaving. Getting their hands on them, however, can be another experience entirely.

From life-saving cancer treatments to common antibiotics, over 300 medications are currently in short supply.

Dentists say unlicensed practitioners offering cheap dental veneers are putting patients at risk.

The U.S. ranks as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of health care, according a report by The Commonwealth Fund on Thursday.

People in the U.S. die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths, despite spending much more on health care.