Study reveals privately insured families may spend $1,300 out-of-pocket for child hospitalization. High costs impact family wellbeing warns pediatric expert.

Highly processed foods can act on the brain in ways that spark cravings, emotional reactions and signs of addiction, and a new poll shows how many older adults experience this.

An education and employment partnership seeks to fill a need for more nurses while also supporting a diverse workforce.

These services, researchers found, were largely inaccessible to people who use sign language, discriminating against already ‘severely marginalized’ population in the United States.

The year provided one fascinating research story after another.

Patients with APS have concerns about their ability to function normally, even when their blood work and clinical visits appear normal.

Cerebral palsy is often listed as the underlying cause of death for patients, however CP does not, itself, cause death in adult patients. Providers are concerned that this inaccuracy negatively impacts patient care.

Reoperations, readmissions, surgery complications and emergency visits highest among surgery patients with risky drinking and smoking, but raising awareness of alcohol related surgery risk can reduce use.

A poll shows how many members of the ‘sandwich generation’ of people in their 50s, 60s and beyond act as a crucial source of health-related caregiving and household help for older Americans.

Black women are at the highest risk of death.

To address persistent racial disparities and inequities in maternal health in Black and low-income communities, centering the patient voice is key.

Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and the mild cognitive impairment that can precede these conditions, now affect one-third of Americans over age 65.

The rise in people seeking emergency medical care after sexual assault outpaces the growth of law enforcement reporting, study suggests.

Study shows early treatment with specific antibiotics depletes the body of gut anaerobes that protect against pneumonia, organ failure and mortality.

Direct-to-consumer home-based tests for infections, cancer, genetic traits and more are widely available but regulation, authorization or approval by FDA is not always clear.