If you have medical debt, there’s a good chance you owe money to a hospital.

One way patients can avoid medical debt is through hospital financial assistance, also known as charity care. Most of the nation’s hospitals offer free or discounted medical care to patients with very high medical debt or low incomes.

Getting financial assistance,...Read more

A new study by the Medical University of Vienna found that a specialized form of imaging could identify 91% of prostate cancer cases without the need for a biopsy.

Traditionally, a blood test can indicate the possibility of prostate cancer, but a diagnosis has long depended on a tissue sample through an outpatient procedure.

The imaging ...Read more

Menopause has been having a moment lately, and Washington is taking notice. On Sept. 16, the Senate held its first hearing on the dismal state of federally funded menopause research and vast gaps in treatment and care. Within 24 hours, the Department of Health and Human Services also convened pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians to ...Read more

Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the country’s first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa.

The Kenyan citizen fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda, Health Secretary Aden Duale told reporters in ...Read more

Democratic congressional members and candidates are already planning to use any midterm election gains to expand health coverage, including boosting Affordable Care Act subsidies, reversing Medicaid cuts, and lowering the Medicare eligibility age.

But Democratic strongholds across the country — including Oregon, California, New York, and ...Read more

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”

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KYLE, Texas — Kenney Blewett was diagnosed with lung disease more than a decade ago but started experiencing flare-ups this year that made him feel like he couldn’t breathe.

Blewett ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- People living with persistent suicidal thoughts may find relief from psilocybin paired with structured psychological support, according to a small clinical trial led by Sheppard Pratt clinicians.

The study, led by Sheppard Pratt chief science officer Scott T. Aaronson and psychiatrist Andrew van der Vaart, offers early evidence ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is leading a $26 million effort to detect early signs of brain diseases in genetic carriers.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the project will study people with the most common inherited cause of both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). ALS is a fatal ...Read more

Pennsylvania surpassed 1,000 measles cases Monday, crossing a grim milestone to rank among the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades.

Pennsylvania reported 106 new measles cases in the past week, totaling 1,004 this year. That includes 992 in the current outbreak that began in April, with Pennsylvania poised to soon surpass an outbreak in ...Read more

Billionaire Mark Cuban will assist a New Jersey panel Gov. Mikie Sherrill created to study how to halt the soaring price of healthcare for public workers in the state.

“I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective and can stand up to the big health care ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last summer's Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations left many foreign-born residents of Los Angeles afraid to venture outdoors, even when their health depended on it.

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests ...Read more

School nurses care for kids who suffer bumps and bruises or need a quiet place to recover when stomach upset, headaches and other ailments hit. Important as they are, these everyday services barely begin to describe the central role school nurses play in child, family and community health. For many families, the school nurse is the first person ...Read more

Autumn Daniels is no stranger to migraine headaches, which have troubled her since childhood.

The migraine tormenting the 32-year-old in April was even worse than usual. After a week of piercing head pain, she went to an urgent care center near her home in Champaign, Illinois, and received an injection of Toradol, a non-steroidal anti-...Read more

NEW RICHLAND, Minn. — Floodwater seeped through the nursing home’s front door just before sunrise.

Inside the New Richland Care Center, staff members rushed to move 36 residents out of the building on Sept. 19 while they still could. They pushed elderly residents in wheelchairs through 4-inch-deep water to buses waiting in the parking lot, ...Read more

In the U.S., approximately 1 in 50 people may have an unruptured brain aneurysm. Understanding the condition and when treatment may be needed can be lifesaving.

A brain aneurysm, also called a cerebral aneurysm, is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain. Aneurysms generally fall into two categories: ruptured aneurysms, which are ...Read more

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bethany Zulick went back to school in January to become a high school English teacher.

Years ago, she taught English as a second language overseas and loved it.

“It’s so exciting to me to watch someone learn a new word or have that spark of understanding,” she said.

Zulick knew she could earn enough money as a ...Read more