As a Union Pushes to Cap Hospital CEO Pay, It’s Accused of Playing Politics LOS ANGELES — The aim is aspirational: Hospital executives shouldn’t make more than the president of the United States. Next spring, Los An...
Amid Lack of Accountability for Bias in Maternity Care, a California Family Seeks Justice Aniya was ready to leave. She was dressed in a fuzzy white onesie her mother had packed for her first trip home. Yet Aniya’s family had more...
Survey: Americans Want Weight Loss Drugs Despite High Cost Many Americans really want to lose weight — and a new poll shows nearly half of adults would be interested in taking a prescription drug to ...
Look Up Your Hospital: Is It Being Penalized By Medicare? Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and...
Doctors Sound Alarm About Child Nicotine Poisoning as Vapes Flood the US Market Hospital toxicologist Ryan Marino has seen up close the violent reactions of children poisoned by liquid nicotine from electronic cigarettes...
The Real Costs of the New Alzheimer’s Drug, Most of Which Will Fall to Taxpayers The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system billions annually even as...
Repeating History: California County Plugs Budget Gap With Opioid Settlement Cash Over the past two years, as state attorneys general agreed to more than $50 billion in legal settlements with companies that made or sold op...