Health Care

As more and more cities add bike share programs, it's important that we talk about safety, and for a lot of people that discussion comes down to helmets.

As end of session nears, patients, families and advocates push Senate and Cuomo to finally pass Compassionate Care Act.

Each year, more than 2.5 million working Americans are unable to take time off to care for a family member with a serious health condition.

Advocates of Medicare for All are developing state campaigns to win health care that eliminates insurance companies and covers everyone.

A vaccination trial thatu2019s currently underway is showing remarkable results.

It's time to put people over profits once and for all, and require hospitals and health insurance companies to once again become nonprofits.

While Bush and Cheney - exemplars of wealth and the politically elite - benefited from scientific and medical advancements, veterans have not.

So few of us will demand to have government do what governments were actually set up to accomplish: be our safety net when troubles arise.

Care of cancer in this country is outpacing other health care problems and is already pricing itself beyond the reach of many Americans.

California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …