Health

California health workers this month will finally get a long-promised minimum wage increase. California’s health worker minimum wage increase will kick in this month, according to a letter state health officials sent to…

A gender-affirming care Supreme Court case that will decide whether Tennessee can continue to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth could imperil the ability of all Americans to make decisions…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing the way health care is provided, with enhanced diagnostic accuracy of images, predictive analyses of patient outcomes from large data sets that can direct…

According to new research from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, rural residents are not significantly more likely to be worried about their medical bills than their urban counterparts,…

NOAA is supporting the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Healthoffsite link at George Mason University, and Meharry School of Global Healthoffsite link, as it initiates the inaugural fellowship for Policy Experience in…

Araceli Ramirez felt lost when her 5-year-old son Abraham was diagnosed with autism two years ago. The Modesto-area mother of four didn’t know much about the disorder or how to…

Last week’s election results may signal political winds sweeping attention away from diversity, equity, and inclusion, but new research papers again make the case that people in different socioeconomic groups…

Over the past decade or so, health systems have been adding new roles to their leadership teams, such as chief innovation officer, chief population health officer and chief wellness officer.…

As North Carolina prepares to roll out a program aimed at easing the burden of medical debt, a new survey on North Carolina’s health care cost burden from four universities reveals that…

With the election (mostly) settled, attention now turns to what it might mean for important corners of federal policy, one of them being health care price transparency. In health care,…

Health care costs in the United States have generally grown faster than inflation. The U.S. far exceeds other large and wealthy nations in per capita health spending, and health care represents a…

In the face of rising health care costs, a new survey reveals that 74% of employers are grappling with the impact on employee wages and benefits, with many anticipating further…