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Initial screenings for breast, lung and cervical cancer are covered by insurance, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.

Indiana’s only donor breast milk bank is growing and expanding its services to new mothers. The Milk Bank, based in Indianapolis, collects, processes and…

If not for flawed classification of deaths, medical mistakes would be the third leading cause of U.S. deaths, Johns Hopkins researchers say. They're calling on the CDC to track deaths from errors.

In many Midwest states it’s illegal for someone with HIV to have sex without telling partners about the illness. Some public health experts are pushing to…

Obamacare provided billions in seed money to help establish insurance companies called co-ops. One of the biggest has now gone under, and its state overseer is telling clients to switch carriers.

This week Indiana Public Broadcasting's All IN show hosted a discussion on Indiana's recent move to suspend its Medicaid work requirement program, and on…

The 6-3 ruling halted a challenge that would have eliminated health insurance subsidies in at least 34 states for individuals and families buying coverage through the federal government's marketplace.

Public health news that caught our eye this week.Home Birth is For The Brits A new recommendation by the British health system - that healthy moms should…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/111013_6.mp3Jeremy Shere, Ph.D., talks to ethicist Arthur Caplin, Ph.D., about the practice and its unintended…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/100613_6.mp3Not getting enough sleep can have many adverse side effects, including looking tired and sluggish.…