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U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks in recent years. Such attacks can upend hospital operations, costing millions of dollars and putting patients' lives at risk.

Most Midwest states have a cap on the amount that juries can award in non-economic damages for medical malpractice cases. But some question whether caps help — or hurt — those seeking justice for medical errors.

Federal judges are wrestling with this question: Can a state government block medical care for transgender children?

What’s a fair price to pay for prescription drugs? Medicare will soon face this and other tough questions when it begins historic price negotiations with drugmakers.

As the first installments of the opioid settlement money made their way to state and local governments in Indiana, conversations about what the money will be spent on and who has the ultimate say are top of mind.

Lower income neighborhoods and people with health conditions are at a higher risk of adverse health impacts from an extreme heat wave sweeping across the Midwest.

For the first time in its 58-year history, Medicare, the public health insurance program for seniors, will have the power to ask for price cuts from drugmakers thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year.

Procedural errors are confusing people and leaving some stunned with unexpected loss of Medicaid health insurance coverage.

Last July, the cumbersome 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline became 988. At the one-year mark, there’s some success to report: Texts to the lifeline increased dramatically and average wait times across the line plummeted from 2 minutes 39 seconds to 41 seconds.

Indiana’s looming abortion ban will mean people in the Midwest and South will need to travel further, wait longer and jump through extra hoops to access abortion care.