Mask wearers are no better defended against COVID-19 than their mask-shunning counterparts, according to a Danish study of almost 5,000 people, roughly half of whom wore face masks as COVID-19 protection in April and May.

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?

CVS Health recently launched an insulin program for employers and health plan sponsors to offer diabetes medications with zero out-of-pocket costs for members. The program could help alleviate the rising costs of insulin for people managing diabetes.

A Medicare for all healthcare system has the potential to improve the availability of services and efficiency of care in the United States, according to a recent study published in The Lancet.

A health system that runs 23 hospitals has moved to restructure its debt, a move that will likely lead to its filing for Chapter 11 protection.

Among 14 common types of protective face mask is one that may do more harm than good.

For 2020, CVS Health has laid out a number of trends in the industry and several challenges to address, including chronic kidney disease care, social determinants of health, poverty and lack of healthcare access, and consumer preferences and engagement.

In the American Northwest and upper Midwest, a digitally progressive health system that operates 24 hospitals is moving to merge with one that specializes in rural care delivery and operates in 24 states and 10 countries.

Contrary to popular politicized opinion, hydroxychloroquine can be highly effective against COVID-19, according to a seasoned epidemiology professor at the Yale School of Public Health.

There’s good news and bad news from the COVID-19 beat. For the bad news, look anywhere news is disseminated. For the good, start with this compact but formidable roundup.  

The honor roll, which recognizes 20 hospitals that excel in numerous care concentrations, is only part of a “Best Hospitals” package the publication has retooled for this, the year of the pandemic. 

It will be more than a year for the U.S. healthcare industry to return to normal, with physicians expecting the new normal to be sometime around August 2021—once a vaccine for COVID-19 has been distributed.

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 hospital many consider the best prepared in the U.S. to handle a pandemic prior to the COVID crisis now finds itself “on an absolutely catastrophic path.”

Bloomberg ranked the 500 richest people in the world in its Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with several healthcare names making the list.

The agency released a document Friday outlining its approach, which also includes more testing, contact tracing, and safely quarantining, isolating and treating minorities at risk.

In the heat of the present pandemic, the findings are fascinating even when they’re not startling—although in at least one instance they’re both. 

Want to help the world win the war on COVID? Get a flu shot and encourage everyone within your sphere of influence to do the same.

Almost half of individuals employed in healthcare expect to keep their noses to the grindstone into their late 60s if not beyond. 

An AI simulation model predicts catastrophic effects of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, but the credibility of AI models is being called into question.