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News that three of the nation's largest health systems sued CVS Health should shatter any remaining illusions about the state of American healthcare. Mount Sinai, University of Michigan Health,

May 1776, the United States lost the battle of Quebec [JG1] and retreated south because so many of the Continental troops contracted smallpox, while the Red Coats of the British Army were largely ...

Scott Pelley's extraordinary juvenile meltdown over being fired from Sixty Minutes, recalled a moment in my life when I was facing the meat grinder that most "guests" on the program ...

Hospital CEOs have been called on the carpet by Congress. Earlier this summer, the House Ways & Means Committee grilled executives from the nation's largest healthcare systems about how they ...

When Americans think about medical innovation, they usually picture either a startup working out of a laboratory or a pharmaceutical giant bringing drugs to market. But some of the most important work ...

Washington has spent years debating health care costs without confronting the biggest one. The single largest driver of America's health spending problem is hospitals. Not only does Washington largely ...

Imagine leaving a hospital with your newborn child only to learn your bill was $24,000 more than what it would have been at another hospital in the same area. This is the reality for some patients in ...

The pharmaceutical landscape is on the cusp of a revolutionary transition from standard GLP-1 weight-loss injections to highly complex, next-generation therapeutics. However, a familiar and dangerous ...

Private equity firms say they bring efficiency and scale to healthcare. But for many patients, especially women seeking OB/GYN care, the experience can feel very different. When contract disputes erup ...

Germany claims to be one of America's closest allies. Yet it just doubled down on a policy that would weaken one of America's most economically and strategically important industries -- and help China ...