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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing on health care costs. Health care executives testified on providing quality health care and costs to consumers and…

Midwives have been helping women give birth throughout American history, but over the past 100 years their legal standing and relationship with the medical community has been complicated by…

Health care experts discussed a merit-based physician payment system for Medicare at an event in Washington, DC, hosted by the Brookings Institution and the University of Southern…

Robert Gebbia discussed National Suicide Prevention Week and legislation related to suicide prevention.

Washington Post health reporter Colby Itkowitz discussed the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan opioid legislation.

Health care industry leaders and economic scholars testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on ways to reduce health care administrative costs. Witnesses included the…

Brian Marcotte, president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health, spoke about his organization’s annual survey of employers about health care benefit costs and coverage strategies…

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins testified before the Senate Health Committee about ongoing science and research at NIH. He was joined by four of his colleagues who…

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma and U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on combating Medicaid…

Paul Offit discussed the risks of getting medical advice from everyone other than a doctor.

Texas Congressman Lloyd Doggett delivered the weekly Democratic address, talking about health care.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and law enforcement officials discussed safety recommendations for protecting first responders from exposure to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.…

David Ricks talked about the future of health care, technological advances, prescription drug costs, and the opioid epidemic. Mr. Ricks is the chair and CEO of Eli Lilly, a global…

Journalist Kristin Lawless chronicled how food has changed over the past 100 years and the effect it is having on our bodies.

Historian Rachel Levandoski gave an illustrated talk about psychiatry and World War I shell shock at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. A historian in the…

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar delivered remarks on free market principles in health care. He outlined why he believes the Affordable Care Act is not working for patients and…

Historian Edith Sheffer recounted how Austrian doctor Hans Asperger, whose work led to a better understanding of autism, was complicit in the deaths of children by the Third Reich.

Stephanie Devaney talked about precision medicine and how it can improve health and treatment strategies.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and NIH Director Francis Collins testified on the Cancer Moonshot initiative and other medical innovation as implemented under the 21st Century Cures Act. Both witnesses…

Michael Pollan reported on the medical and scientific uses and affects of psychedelic drugs.