Health Care

The average cost of employer health coverage surpassed $21,000 for a family plan this year, according to a new survey, a rise reflecting rates calculated before the pandemic upended normal patterns of medical care.Annual premiums rose 4% to…

Starpoint case managers lookout for the welfare of the community’s most vulnerable population, and with newly expanded services, they’re truly caring for individuals from cradle to grave. The agency has provided case management services…

Concerns have been raised over the future of Rutland Memorial Hospital as the local NHS looks to reconfigure hospital services. Rutland Health and Social Care Policy Consortium, which monitors health…

“Our suburbs would be gone,” Trump said. “He wouldn’t know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn,” Biden responded. But the suburbs are not uniform. They vary from city to city and so do the flip…

With two nurses and the Regina Pasqua Hospital behind him, New Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Ryan Meili promised to increase the ranks of doctors, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and clinical care assistants by over 1,000 if…

The president returns to the White House at a fraught moment in his recovery — before he has seemingly escaped a period when some patients are known to crash. “The problem with covid-19 is that…

Destiny Werstroh squinted over her steering wheel, peering through the thick wall of a January snowstorm at what she could see of Highway 6 unfolding ahead. In about eight hours, it would lead her and her boyfriend from their home in…

Samantha Young and Angela Hart SACRAMENTO — Though COVID-19 forced California leaders to scale back their ambitious health care agenda, they still managed to enact significant new laws intended to lower consumer health care spending and…

The meaning of health has evolved over time. In keeping with the biomedical perspective, early definitions of health focused on the theme of the body's ability to function; health was seen as a state of normal function that could be…

The meaning of health has evolved over time. In keeping with the biomedical perspective, early definitions of health focused on the theme of the body's ability to function; health was seen as a state of normal function that could be…