"Health insurance should help people, not hold them back, or push them further behind when it comes to wages and income equality."

Dementia affects more than the brain. A new study shows the toll it takes on a person's wallet—and on family caregivers, too.

In this podcast episode, Katherine Baicker lays out an innovative blueprint for health care—not to tinker with the system, but to redesign it.

Passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 has helped farm workers get better medical care—and avoid trips to the emergency room.

Health care is growing less affordable for American adults—particularly women—with employer-sponsored health insurance, research finds.

Expanding programs that prep medically tailored meals for seriously ill patients could help avoid 1.6 million hospitalizations yearly.

Asthma, heart disease, lung disease, anxiety, and other mood disorders are all associated with elevated rates of medical debt, research finds.

People with acute lower back pain who started physical therapy soon after symptoms used fewer health care resources in the first month and a year later.

Many older adults go beyond conventional medicine to ease health symptoms, but few talk to their doctors about it. Here's why they should.

Many people with diabetes in the US spend at least 40% of their postsubsistence income—what is available after paying for food and housing—on insulin.