The Department of Education’s proposed definition will limit access to programs preparing students for critical health-care professions.

For nursing students, this rule change is a “smack in the face,” said Susan Pratt, a nurse who also serves as the president of an Ohio union that represents nurses. “When we were during the pandemic, ...

Meet Betty, a typical aging American. At 82, she spends almost as much time with her doctors as she does with her grandchildren. She has to. She takes seven prescription medications to treat her high ...

Editor’s note: Paula Braveman was one of the theme advisors for the June 2017 Health Affairs equity theme issue. Until recently, talking about “equity” as a health researcher in the United States ...

Speakers at the VBID Summit discuss health equity and applying value-based benefit design principles to provide quality care at a lower cost. Speakers from New York and California explained how they ...

Members of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington hosted the first of several listening sessions to galvanize ...

A landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Estelle v. Gamble) makes incarcerated people the only group in the United States with a protected constitutional right to health care. But the exact nature ...

Weight-inclusive health care means a focus on better health with no weight loss required. This includes practices such as eating for overall well-being rather than for the number of calories. It may ...