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Don't understand what the independent Vermont senator's single-payer plan is? Here are the bullet points. (For starters, his new program would not look a whole lot like Medicare.)

Earlier this year, 69-year-old Aneita McCloskey needed her two front teeth filed down and capped.“They were kind of worn down and they were also getting…

Some doctors lambaste Wikipedia for errors in its medical pages. But there are many physicians, science teachers and researchers working overtime to make the crowdsourced health content better.

MILFORD, Del. – When the only hospital in this southern Delaware town saw two of its four obstetricians move away, it knew it had to do something to…

This story was originally published by Pro Publica.Dental patients really don't like Western Dental. Not its Anaheim, California clinic: "I hate this…

Transferring critically ill patients is becoming increasingly difficult, according to hospital leaders, government officials and industry advocates. Patients are spending hours — or sometimes days — in rural hospital emergency rooms waiting for an ambulance.

Medical professionals have spent years debating whether the benefits of mandatory heart screenings for children outweigh their drawbacks.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016, according to a new…

Many low-income patients can't make multiple visits to the doctor, which is a problem if you're a diabetic trying to get insulin dosing just right. A text-based system made remote reports possible.

Academic medicine is still a man’s world, according to two studies and an accompanying editorial published Tuesday in the journal JAMA.Despite growing…