This recently awarded funding will strengthen dementia research and improve care and quality of life for patients.

Over the past several decades, concerns about costs and producing short-term results have narrowed the NIH’s impact.

We’ve seen the consequences of neglecting disparities before. For decades, medical problems unique to Black Americans were ...

The world is facing an interconnected health crisis: zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, environmental degradation, and ...

People who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could see increases of more than 75% each month, one ...

For the new database, the health department said it would take steps to ensure the privacy of medical data. But it is not clear precisely what kind of research will be conducted. Mr.

Waymark, a public benefit company dedicated to improving access and quality of care in Medicaid, today published ...

The National Institutes of Health is planning a new, multimillion-dollar research program examining the causes of autism and the spike in U.S. diagnoses, according to three people who spoke on the ...

Michal Horný is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Low-income patients—and their healthcare providers—are ...

President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that will permanently ban analogues of fentanyl—though it also contains ...

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.

More information: Michal Horný et al, Claim Denials: Low-Income Patients From Disadvantaged Racial And Ethnic Groups Experienced The Largest Burdens, Health Affairs (2025).