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After watching his parents endure Alzheimer’s disease, hotelier Laurence Geller began building five-star care residences and plowing funding into dementia care research and nurse training.

Data and data science may help in the fight against one of the WHO’s 10 threats to global health in 2019

Then there is the uniquely American ubiquitous advertising of hospitals, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, physician clinics, and health insurers, which points to the degree to which the patient is considered a consumer by the suppliers of healt…

Judging by their covers, “Deep Medicine” and “The Butchering Art” seem to take place in different worlds. Reading them back to back reveals a shocking truth: Today’s medical practice bears a striking resemblance to the world of medicine from two centur…

The Veterans Health Administration proves that the government is incapable of providing high-quality healthcare. We should be looking to extricate patients from the VA by giving them private healthcare choices—not to extend its brand of single-payer fa…

Cupping is a procedure where someone puts glass cups on your skin and sucks the skin up into them, which causes bruising and breaks capillaries. Proponents claim it treats pain, but there’s no evidence that it works. Welcome to “integrative” medicine.

The IQVIA Institute released a data-rich report in April 2019 on the state of clinical R&D in the US pharmaceutical industry; the author examines a number of the trends in clinical trial activity outlined in the findings.

Mexico’s president released a plan to significantly change the country’s drug policy and invite the US to do the same.

Get ready for one of the most controversial tech developments of our era.

Lawmakers are introducing bills that target racial disparities in maternal deaths.