health care industry

A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative.

Increasingly, Americans pay for the privilege of seeing a doctor. Research shows concierge medicine can further hamper access to care for those who can’t afford the upgrade.

Medical exports explore the spike in syphilis cases, updated COVID guidelines, STD self-test kits and the connection between weight-loss drugs and mental health.

The Justice Department says the case involved allegations that Florida Cancer Specialists and another oncology company agreed to suppress competition in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties.

The EPA says its proposal will reduce ethylene oxide emissions by roughly 80% by targeting 86 medical sterilization facilities across the United States.

The health company runs a membership-based service, and the two sides said membership to the service will be available to new U.S. customers for $144 – a 28% discount - for the first year.

The health systems will begin a formal due diligence period to determine the details of a final agreement. A final decision is expected later this year.

What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

A months-long examination found gaping holes and expansive gray areas through which banned individuals slip to repeatedly bilk Medicaid, Medicare and other taxpayer-funded federal programs.

But as assisted living concept has become more popular, residents are now older and sicker than in the past, and a panel of experts is calling for more focus on their medical and mental health needs.