Few things about the American health care system infuriate patients and doctors more than prior authorization, a common tool whose use by insurers has exploded in recent years.
In a podcast episode of Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, influencer Hank Green, who got his start on YouTube in 2007, has a lot to say about what the responsibility of having a platform is and whether the internet's future is utopian or dystopian.
The Biden administration is monitoring what experts say is the deadliest outbreak of bird flu that the US has ever seen, and officials are considering a "range of options" on how to respond.
What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient's body doesn't reject the transplanted kidney?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old California Democrat, recently announced she is out of the hospital and recovering at home from shingles, a painful viral inflammation in the skin's nerves that causes a blistering rash lasting for two to four weeks. Feinstein was diagnosed in February and hospitalized in San Francisco last week.
Are you ready to move your clocks forward by an hour this weekend? That's right — for most people in the United States, it's time to "spring forward" into Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 a.m.
A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
The millions of Norway rats that live alongside New Yorkers are among the animals that can catch the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study says. However, reports of the virus spreading from any types of animals to humans remain rare.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced updates to mammography regulations on Thursday, including requiring mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts.
The US Food and Drug Administration's commissioner issued a letter calling to action the infant formula industry in order to protect babies from illnesses caused by salmonella and the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii.
Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as "waggle dancing" — performing steps that map out where food is located and how far it is from the hive.
CRISPR gene editing means a cure for sickle cell disease is on the horizon. However, the life-changing treatment is likely to remain out of reach for most of those who could benefit.
Eli Lilly & Co.'s announcement that it is slashing prices for its major insulin products could make life easier for some diabetes patients while easing pressure on Big Pharma. It also casts light on the profiteering methods of the drug industry's price mediators -- the pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs -- at a time when Congress has shifted its focus to them.
The world is off-pace for achieving the goal of reducing sodium intake 30% by 2025, according to a first-of-its-kind report from the World Health Organization.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is proposing new requirements for tobacco companies that would help prevent contamination of their products and set some standards for the way they make and package products so regulators and consumers will know precisely what is in them.
People who most closely followed the plant-based Mediterranean and MIND diets had fewer plaques and tangles, key signs of Alzheimer's, in their brains at autopsy, a new study says.
Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region's permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health.
