Can smartphone drug trials improve medical care?
A new clinical trial is attempting to track how participants suffering from depression respond to mental health apps
Health insurers seek double-digit rate hikes for 2016, report finds
Some states have already approved hikes as high as 36% as firms seek increases for a third of the health insurance plans listed on the Obamacare exchange
Because #BlackLivesMatter, black healthcare must matter
My grandmother might still be alive today if doctors took her distress seriously. But an inadequate healthcare system took months to diagnose her colon cancer
Revised Obamacare contraception rule still violates religious beliefs, says group
Healthcare law changes make it easier for religious organizations to deny employees birth control but most forms must still be covered at no cost
‘We blame the sick for being expensive’: the mother whose baby cost AOL $1m
After AOL’s CEO told employees he was cutting retirement benefits partly because of the cost of Deanna Fei’s ‘distressed baby’, the mother fought back
‘We are hugging and crying’: Americans on Obamacare breathe a sigh of relief
For 9 million people, Thursday’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act was a potentially life-saving decision: ‘We are celebrating. I am just so relieved’
Six key takeways from supreme court’s rescue of Obama’s healthcare law
Thursday’s ruling saved subsidies and removed source of market insecurity for insurers but defeat will not stop Republicans determined to repeal provisions
Rate of uninsured Americans drops among poor and minority groups
Overall, the number of uninsured adult Americans dropped from 20.4% to 16.3% in 2014 and can be partially attributed to expansion of Medicaid coverage
Are you still paying for your birth control? That might be illegal
The Obama administration has declared that health insurance companies must cover all contraception methods. Will this decision have an impact on you?
The medical research gender gap: how excluding women from clinical trials is hurting our health
When it comes to health research, large gender gaps limit how much we know about the difference between women’s health and men’s