Health Care

Traditional Medicare turns 50 on July 30, having had many challenges and achievements from the days of its passage to today.

In this Equal Voice News report, meet Christal Boutte, a Seattle woman who is among 3.5 million home caregivers.

Of the 50 US hospitals that mark up prices the most, 49 of them are part of for-profit hospital chains.

These are some of the less publicized downsides of how the ACA actually works within privatized Medicaid programs.

Researchers raise alarms about unknown health risks of GE's Omniscan and Bayer's Magnevist, drugs injected to get better MRI pictures that contain the heavy metal gadolinium.

The poor don't rate a mention in our public consciousness or political campaigns because we are inconvenient and pathologized.

Two decades later, it is helpful to recall what happened to the Clinton Health Plan.

It's sugar that's killing us rather than fats, and it's high time mainstream medicine admits its decades-long mistake.

Health care employment has been rising rapidly in the last two months.

Anti-choice groups can no longer claim they are the only ones who care about helping women through any circumstance.