Healthcare and Caregiving News

A growing number of hospitals are outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients by setting up independent, nonprofit organizations...

Nearly six million Americans and more than 500,000 Canadians are currently living with dementia, and a diagnosis often leads to a...

Long covid “is a parallel pandemic that most people aren’t even thinking about,” said Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology...

Los Angeles County health officials found out Tuesday that the federal government slashed the county’s requested and expected monkeypox vaccine...

For millions of Californians living with chronic diseases — such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer — or other debilitating conditions, inflation...

Some medical centers are offering cognitive rehabilitation to patients with long covid symptoms.

Husband-and-wife cataract surgeries had surprisingly different costs, with one resulting in an out-of-pocket payment of $204, while the other was...

California lawmakers have approved a controversial no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract for HMO giant Kaiser Permanente over the objection of county...

Millions of seniors are turning to online companies that have sprung up in the past several years, advertising quick access...

Some screenings and preventative tests are free under the Affordable Care Act. But this popular provision comes with challenges and...