JAMA Internal Medicine

If male doctors were as good as their female counterparts at caring for older people in the hospital, about 32,000 fewer patients a year would die. What do female doctors do better than men?

The prevalence of Alzheimer's and other dementias declined by almost 3 percent from 2000 to 2012, a study finds. That could be a result of people getting more education, and better health overall.

There’s a prescription drug abuse problem sweeping the United States, but fixing it will require a systematic change focused on how most health…