California Weighs Penalties for Healthcare Providers That Don’t Rein In Costs

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potent...

How Louisiana’s New Surgeon General Wants To Transform Public Health

Evelyn Griffin had led a life out of the spotlight until she testified at the Louisiana Statehouse five years ago and experienced what...

Headless FDA Gets a New Nominee

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Violence Against Healthcare Workers and Staffing Shortages Fuel Hospital Strikes

Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much v...

You Want To Join a Clinical Trial. Here’s What To Know About the Hurdles.

Connecting people with clinical trials is complicated — even if people identify a promising match, there’s a slew of potentially thorn...

What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently

It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks i...

Newsom Promotes Affordable Insulin, but California’s Generic Label Off to a Slow Start

SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting ...