The overwhelming response to Louisiana’s expanded Medicaid program is an illustration of how many people have been waiting a chance to get health insurance, especially in states where politicians have resisted the Affordable Care Act, writes Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times.

A new data analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Americans’ average weight in 2014 had increased for both men and women compared to 1994, while average height remained the same, a sign of the increase in obesity among the entire population.

Just days after the news surfaced that Zika is being transmitted in the continental U.S., the National Institutes of Health announced the start of a phase I human trial for one Zika vaccine. 

Bowel and bladder incontinence was described as equal to or worse than death by a majority of seriously ill patients participating in a survey published in JAMA.

HHS is now facing lawsuits from three health insurance co-ops set up under the Affordable Care Act, but the organization won a small victory when a federal judge ordered an insurer to make a $24 million risk adjustment payment.

CMS has announced 14 regions where practices can now apply to participate in the new Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ schedule has just opened up, now that he’s no longer campaigning to be the Democratic nominee for president. Some Colorado activists say they know the perfect way he can spend his extra time. 

It’s a grudgingly accepted fact of life among many that specific personal data and more general meta data about nearly everyone is stored online, possibly accessible to people, corporations and governments willing to look for it.