One of the two antitrust lawsuits against mergers of large health insurers would have to be reassigned to another judge if both were to be settled before the end of 2016, according to U.S. District Judge John Bates.

Technology has seeped into nearly aspect of life, including health, which means millions of women use apps to track their menstrual cycles just as they use them to track train schedules. 

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.

The antitrust trials on the proposed Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna mergers could begin as soon as October or as late as February 2017, depending on whether the U.S. Department of Justice or the insurers get their way.

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. 

Patient monitoring systems have proven to provide a better quality of care to patents, but how much are these technologies saving in both time and money?

Based on the average costs incurred by gunshot victims, the 56 people brought to hospitals after being injured in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, could rack up a total of $1 million in medical bills, reported Kaiser Health News.