public health

Heart rate, activity, and sleep data hold promise for population-level influenza tracking.

Medicaid expansion may have prevented up to 8,132 opioid overdose deaths in 2015 to 2017 in the 32 states that...

Since 2005, 162 rural hospitals have shuttered, with 60% of the closures occurring in southern states that did not expand...

Michael Dowling challenges healthcare CEOs nationwide to join campaign to stop the bloodshed.

It's been about a year since the hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., closed. The lessons for this community about meeting...

Severe obesity also projected to be more common, affecting nearly 25% of the population in 25 states.

The success of your healthcare organization is linked to the success of the communities in which it operates.

Experts at a House hearing take sides on a single-payer system.

'Much more can be learned from the dead'

American Kidney Fund tells California dialysis patients it will no longer help pay for treatments.

Why do the odds look grim for Congress to pass significant drug pricing legislation this year?

Medicaid has avoided the march toward digital communication and continues to operate largely in a paper-based world.