There's a key but little-examined factor that likely helps explain Medicare Advantage's enrollment surge in recent years: ...

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive ...

Rates of anxiety and depression among U.S. adults, especially younger folks, continues to rise, the latest federal data shows ...

The results of some congressional races may foreshadow who will have outsize health policy influence in Congress next year.

Poor sleep quality may be associated with incidental, but not prevalent, motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), a predementia ...

Lumbar disk herniation is one of the most common structural changes in the lower back and the most common cause of radiating ...

Sexual orientation—dictated by factors like sexual identity, attraction and behavior—is challenging to measure ...

Bangladesh is struggling to tamp down a surge in dengue cases as climate change turns the disease into a year-round crisis, leaving some pediatric wards packed with children squeezed two to a bed.

This spring, a few days after his 2nd birthday, Brigland Pfeffer was playing with his siblings in their San Diego backyard. His mother, Lindsay Pfeffer, was a few feet away when Brigland made a noise ...

A study, published in the journal Neurology has explored whether healthy lifestyle choices, measured by a Brain Care Score ...

New collaborative research from the University of Sydney and the Montreal Heart Institute has shown that using a fan in hot ...

Clinics and hospitals currently defer medication abortion until ultrasound confirms a pregnancy inside the uterus. However, a ...