The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised fresh concern over the scale of financial hardship caused by healthcare costs across Africa, warning that millions are being pushed deeper into poverty ...

Florida inmates are approved for the same surgery when their vision tests 20/50 or worse, department standards state. But ...

Multi-omics analysis has emerged as a powerful approach in translational medicine, integrating diverse molecular data to ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

A growing number of people are turning to online fundraising not for medical emergencies or creative projects, but simply to ...

Technology that was supposed to democratize health information may instead be creating new hierarchies of who gets to know ...

A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity of a specific ...

Currently the true number of pregnant and postpartum detention is largely unknown. The Women’s Refugee Commission states ...

BEIJING -- The National Healthcare Security Administration said Monday that the coverage of China's basic medical insurance is stabilized at over 95 percent and that the quality of the system had ...

TOKYO -- The Nobel Prize shared by Osaka University professor Shimon Sakaguchi for the discovery of regulatory T-cells is boosting joint research partner Chugai Pharmaceutical, as investors hope the ...

For those without insurance, free or reduced-cost medical care may be available through Medicaid, charity care, community clinics, walk-in clinics, and urgent care centers. Strategies for saving money ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...