Getting the Word Out About Hep C

Do they tackle drugs with extremely high costs taken by a handful of patients, or drugs with merely very high costs taken by a larger group?

Black cancer survivors also have a higher risk of death from heart disease, new study shows.

Infant mortality is by far the highest in the South, with Mississippi’s rate of 8.12 deaths per 1,000 live births ranking worst.

Employers understand the need to take time off to care for a baby, but there’s less understanding about time to care for anyone else.

Black American mothers are three times more likely to die in pregnancy compared with white mothers.

Medicaid expansion was associated with improved two-year survival, especially for women with Stag III cancer.

The compromise bill leaves Medicare and Medicaid funding untouched and includes no new work requirements for Medicaid.

Women who agreed to more screenings had a significantly lower risk of death.

Jail incarceration was associated with increased cancer deaths for common cancers for white people, but not for Black people.

About 300,000 people with HIV are long-term survivors, meaning they acquired HIV before 1996, when effective treatment was introduced.