Your new therapist: Chatty, leaky and hardly human
A burgeoning industry of apps offers AI therapists with human-like avatars.
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Medigap premiums leap, and consumers have few alternatives
Double-digit premium increases for Medicare supplemental policies are becoming the norm.
State-run insurance plans for foster kids leave some of them without doctors
But such specialized plans for kids in foster care continue to gain traction.
Inside the high-stakes corporate fight over feeding preterm babies
Abbott and Mead Johnson have turned NICUs into arenas of brutal competition.
US scientists sequence 1,000 genomes from measles, a disease long eliminated with vaccines
Soon, data will reveal whether the U.S. has lost its hard-won measles elimination status.
Lost in transmission: Changes in organ donor status can fall through cracks in the system
This gap has become a point of bipartisan congressional concern.
Trump required hospitals to post their prices for patients. Mostly it’s the industry using the data
The data often is presented in a way that’s not useful for patients.
End of enhanced Obamacare subsidies puts tribal health lifeline at risk
Native Americans as a group continue to face disproportionately high rates of chronic diseases.
With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services agreed to give direct access to a Medicaid database.
When health insurance costs more than the mortgage
More middle-income people face tough decisions about their health coverage this year.