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Hospitals are charging up to $650 for a simple, molecular COVID test that costs $50 or less to run.

Better-than-expected tax revenues and a tsunami of federal aid have helped states bolster Medicaid and safety net programs during the...

Younger generations will pay a heavy price if the outbreak is allowed to simmer in communities across the country.

Across the country, preventive cancer screenings plummeted by as much as 94% during the first four months of last year.

Holmes County, where half the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of the...

Americans are surprisingly willing, even eager, to suffer a little for the reward of immunity from a virus that has...

Patients who didn't speak much, or any, English had a 35% greater chance of death.

How is Biden doing as he approaches this mark? Not bad, experts say, given the scale of the crisis he's...

Health officials have been subjected to extreme scrutiny from politicians and the public over mask requirements, business closures and the...

Colorado is among the most recent of 19 states to have enacted red flag laws. Connecticut was first, in 1999.

From 2015 to 2019 alone, cases rose 74%. There were nearly 130,000 cases nationwide in 2019.

Public health experts cited many reasons for the difference, including that women make up three-quarters of the workforce in healthcare...