Healthcare workers were infected with COVID-19 in greater percentages than the general population, and nurses were hardest hit of all, during the early days of the pandemic. 

Unless the world takes action now, millions of children will contract measles next year. Hundreds of thousands could die, and much of the suffering will have been preventable.

Millennials are feeling the pain of surprise medical bills more acutely than the generations that preceded them.

The temporary telehealth reforms put in place to help the U.S. weather the COVID-19 storm “are good for patients and should be made permanent.”

Will the public be braced enough for the expected side effects of shot No. 1 that they’ll follow through with the essential second round?

President-elect Joe Biden wants to drop Medicare’s eligibility age to 60. If he succeeds, the move might bring in well more than 20 million new enrollees. What are the odds he’ll plant that piece of a potentially sweeping healthcare agenda?  

The nation’s largest commercial insurer—covering some 70 million Americans—first implemented its imaging reimbursement update in the spring, drawing concern from the field. 

A new AI tool can accurately separate the patients who would do better getting restorative sleep till morning from those who, due to unstable condition, really need their vital signs checked overnight.

In 20% of such cases, guideline-discordant exams forced providers to use an additional imaging modality, researchers explained.

The COVID crisis has given AI a chance to shine for medical researchers this year—and shine it has, judging by one prominent center’s experience.