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Which hospital parents pick to deliver their baby can have serious cost consequences, according to a new study.Hospital costs for women who had no…

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…

An Obamacare tax that starts in 2018 may prompt more employers to establish private health insurance exchanges. They'll give their workers cash to choose from a greater variety of plans.

At a booth at a health fair in Indianapolis, a 27 year-old African American woman named Sasha clicks through a computerized survey about cervical cancer.…

Some analysts who have looked at health insurers’ proposed premiums for next year predict major increases for policies sold on state and federal health…

Even going to prison doesn’t spare patients from having to pay medical copays.In response to the rapidly rising cost of providing health care, states are…

More than a hundred influential doctors banded together to propose seven ways to bring down the high prices of cancer drugs. They say changes are needed to preserve access to care.

A new World Health Organization study finds alarmingly high rates of HIV infection among transgender women. One of the researchers notes that the numbers are rooted in rampant discrimination.

One Saturday afternoon at a backyard cookout, St. Louis, Missouri, architect Dan Rosenberg enjoyed a cheeseburger – a food he’d enjoyed many times…

Even when some Medicare patients stay overnight in the hospital, they are are being classified as outpatients under something called observation status. It sounds innocuous but can trigger big bills.