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Drug plans offered by private insurers under Medicare change from year to year. It pays to check around for the best deal during open enrollment season.

It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.

Health care practitioners who band together can earn Medicare bonuses by saving money. Most of the groups decline potentially richer deals that include penalties for excessive spending.

These plans, which remain a minority in the marketplaces, can help steer consumers to the system's hospitals and doctors, but some also offer competitive prices.

As families consider how far to push an infant's medical care, a chasm can open between the parents' hopes and what doctors and nurses consider realistic. How do you measure a baby's quality of life?

Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.

Montana and other states are trying to increase the number of nurses who are specially trained to treat survivors of sexual assault.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced her exit on the same day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency.

State legislatures are considering more than 600 bills that would undermine local control on culture wars issues from education and policing to environmental policy.

Last week, acting Police Chief John Joly told the Ithaca Voice he was taking an indefinite leave of absence and planned to sue the city of Ithaca and Mayor Laura Lewis for a "hostile work environment".