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The Washington Post hosted a discussion with members of Congress, researchers and health care experts on the U.S. opioid crisis and solutions for combating drug addiction. The discussion…

Commissioner Scott Gottlieb testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 Food and Drug Administration budget request. The budget proposes cutting…

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the president’s proposed 2018 budget request. Democrats had tough questions for Secretary…

The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on military caregivers. Witnesses including former Senator Elizabeth Dole who talked about the work of her foundation that advocates for those…

Rachel Pearson spoke about her memoir, No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine, in which she recounts her experience with the health care…

Witnesses that included Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) testified at a hearing on the opioid crisis and other forms of drug abuse and their possible relationship to economic factors.…

James Gelfand talked about how the Republican health care reform legislation might affect employer-based health insurance plans.

Dr. Wyatt Decker of the Mayo Clinic and Thomas Priselac of Cedars-Sinai Health systems participated in a panel discussion on value-based health care and its impact on overall health care…

Telephone lines were open for viewer calls and social media comments on the role of the government in the opioid crisis.

Tim Clarke, deputy director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, presented items from the museums’s Civil War collection. Some viewers may find images…

Lisa Napoli talked about her book Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, a biography of Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald’s franchise, and…

Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget request.

The CEO of Doctor on Demand and other telemedicine industry leaders talked about ways that innovation and technology can transform and improve the health care system. This discussion was…

Historians Ashley Bowen-Murphy and Sarah Handley-Cousins talked about the evolution of Civil War medicine and the treatment of the disabled veterans of the war. This interview took place at the…

James Mohr talked about his book, Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession, about the significance of the Dent v. West Virginia Supreme Court case and the consequences…

Richard Harris talked about his book Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions, in which he reports on the challenges facing the field of…

Enough is Enough was the first-prize high school central division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Jarod Clark, a senior at Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, produced…

David Oshinsky talked about his book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital. New York City’s Bellevue hospital was founded in 1736 and is the…

On the Edge was one of the second-prize middle school winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Eleanor Sparks, Charles Thrush, and Alexander Rhoman, eighth graders at Eastern Middle…

Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal talked about her book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back, in which she examines the business side of health care.…