Among near-poor Black and Hispanic individuals, Medicare Advantage was associated with increased vision care and some, although not uniform, reductions in access disparities vs traditional Medicare.

A few weeks ago, River Smith visited his primary care doctor in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area because he needed a new prescription for testosterone and the estrogen blocker he takes as part of his ...

In late 2024, I authored an article suggesting that 2025 might be the year health plans start working at the individual member level to address barriers to care. This included identifying and ...

A new study is looking to spark broader conversations about the ongoing efforts needed to make mental health care more accessible for Black families and youth in the U.S. The Child Mind Institute, in ...

SEATTLE — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, along with Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Nanette Barragán, introduced the Health Equity and Access under Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Families Act, a bill that aims ...

Max Adomat considers themself fortunate. Adomat, 26, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has been on a steady regimen of feminizing hormones for the last six years. They also began their ...

Karina Martinez is a double major in biology and neuroscience and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. "I ...

This post was updated March 12 at 7:50 p.m. Undocumented people living in the United States are denied their basic right to health care each and every day, with only a few states choosing to expand ...

Despite slightly decreasing overall rates of suicide in the past several years, suicide continues to be a top cause of death for Black men. In fact, suicide rates for young Black men and adolescents ...

Maternal mortality rates have soared in the U.S. to nearly three times those of other high-income countries. Over 20 percent of deaths among new mothers are from suicide and overdose. Researchers and ...