Health

The percentage of poor, newly diagnosed cancer patients without health insurance fell in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act....Read More

Students with poor grades are more likely to have unhealthy behaviors — including illegal drug use — than teens at the top of the class, health officials say....Read More

Been looking for a reason to turn down your child’s pleas for a pet Guinea pig? Dutch researchers say the rodents may carry germs tied to serious pneumonia....Read More

Fewer adult women are becoming infected with human papillomavirus, a trend that includes females who have never received the HPV vaccine, a new study reports....Read More

Studies have shown that the quality of our relationships may determine how healthy we are, how well we recover from illness and even how long we live...Read More

Nobody loves a trip to the dentist, but for many middle-aged Americans even basic dental care is now financially out of reach, a new poll finds....Read More

How filling you think a meal will be can affect how much you eat later, a small study found....Read More

A study by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health found that long-term opioid prescription use increased threefold between 1999 and 2014....Read More

Canadian researchers found that, despite recommendations, implantable cardioverter defibrillators are being underutilized by doctors to save patients....Read More

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 may have hit black American teens in poor rural communities particularly hard, a new study suggests....Read More