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Although these activities have been around for decades, there are signs that some are making a comeback.

As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do play a useful role in the health marketplace.

Future-oriented thinking, rather than careening from moment to moment, can help parents have more meaningful moments with their children.

Many claims about the dangers of vaccines come from misrepresenting scientific research papers.

The murder of a health care insurance executive has brought scrutiny to the ways that insurance companies can make it difficult for insured patients to get the care they need.

A clinical psychologist offers research-backed ways to work through grief and support grieving friends and family members during the holidays.

Black Americans were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 infections, illness and death during the pandemic. But the long-term toll of long COVID among this group is still largely overlooked.

Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.

Cold and flu viruses often circulate more in the fall and winter, but there are some time-tested strategies for avoiding them, such as vaccines, handwashing and staying active.

A narrower, more personalized 'normal range' could help doctors better diagnose and treat disease in individual patients.