The U.S. needs to ensure everyone has an equitable chance to protect themselves, and if people don’t have that opportunity, they need to be able to rely on others to be compassionate, he says.
HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don’t use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.
The Biden administration announced new measures to ease the financial burden of high medical bills. Here’s how the measures can help and what’s still missing to protect patients.
The Biden administration has asked Congress to allocate $22.5 billion more for pandemic relief. But the funding is stalled and the effects are already being felt.
Congress failed to approve billions in new funding to fight COVID-19. Among threatened program cuts are free treatments for COVID patients who are uninsured.
Swamped by thousands of calls a day, contact tracing programs have been forced to adapt. Even though they can’t call everyone, experts say it’s too early to give up on this pillar of disease control.
As he prepares to leave his post of 12 years, Francis Collins reflects on the agency’s biomedical advances, the dangers of polarizing medicine, and the huge health gaps that still exist in the U.S.
Scientists may not know for a couple weeks yet how risky the new coronavirus variant will be to public health. But getting out front now about what is known helps dispel misinformation, they say.
The open enrollment period to buy health insurance on HealthCare.gov starts now and runs through Jan. 15, 2022. Look for more options and expanded subsidies this year — and more help signing up.