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A standoff is heating up between the Trump administration and local leaders who are trying to open facilities where people can use opioids under the eye of medical staff.

A Texas Children’s Hospital nurse allegedly described a young patient with the measles, in a Facebook post affirming her opposition to vaccines. The hospital says patient privacy is a “top priority.”

A Wisconsin insurance board has reversed a decision made last year to bar coverage of transgender hormone therapy and surgery for public workers.

The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen also says the multicenter study of life-threatening sepsis will at best produce confusing results. A Harvard doctor and designer of the research disagrees.

An insured Texas teacher, 44, faces a “balance bill” of almost twice his annual salary from an out-of-network hospital’s treatment of his sudden heart attack.

As more doctors’ offices give patients electronic access to their medical records, both patients and their physicians are asking: Exactly how much of your medical record should you get to see?

New York University students cheered, but critics say waiving tuition isn’t the best way to ease student debt or boost the number of primary care doctors from diverse backgrounds.

Foster parents often struggle to meet their charges’ extraordinary health needs. Some states are testing out a coordinated approach to care to keep these kids from slipping through the cracks.

An analysis by the state shows Medicaid expansion has cut in half the number of uninsured Ohioans. Most recipients said the expansion made it easier to find work and care for their families.

Author Beth Macy details opioids’ odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers.