If you’ve ever wondered how the health of your city compares to other towns in the U.S., there’s a tool for that.

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Republicans -- led by Speaker Mike Johnson -- unveiled Friday a narrow health care package to address rising costs, but the ...

In 2020, there were 23 million adults older than 75 in the US, and this group is growing at an annual rate of 2.13 percent. In 2019, a person who reached the age of 65 could expect to live for an ...

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, shown here in 2021, would see significant funding cuts under various provisions of H.R. 1. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Citing the devastating impacts of recent federal ...

The final regulation, released Thursday by President Trump’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is significantly ...

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity. The global team’s recommendations were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Jan. 14. Body mass index (BMI) ...

Samsung Galaxy Watches have been able to read blood pressure in other countries, and now the feature has come to the U.S.