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For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is including the time spent in a car getting to and from work as a factor that influences health in…

A study about the impact of the 2008 Oregon Medicaid expansion on hospital emergency department visits doesn’t actually tell us much about the Affordable…

Studies that set out to answer the pressing question of whether walking or running offers more health benefits found that both do, but the benefits are…

At 7 a.m. on a Monday morning, poor people who don’t qualify for government health programs such as Medicaid are lined up outside a health department…

The Florida Legislature ended its 2013 session without making a move on expanding health care in the state. But that doesn't mean there won't be health…

Florida is one of the places where you can lose out on a job offer if you’re a smoker. On the latest edition of Freakonomics Radio from NPR’s Marketplace,…

At his site Our Health Policy Matters, consultant Paul Gionfriddo lists the public health initiatives that have had the biggest impact during his lifetime.

As millions of baby boomers age, questions abound regarding their health and how to care for them, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. As the Miami…