Category: NPR

Uncertainty over federal standards for these cost-saving programs could trigger different perks for employees, and change what they must do to qualify.

The VA is now set to spend $10 billion over the next 10 years adopting the Pentagon’s system for electronic health records, but it’s not clear who is in charge of the effort.

Florida school districts now have to ask if a new student has ever been referred for mental health services. It’s a legislative attempt to help troubled kids. Will it work, or increase stigma instead?

Research suggests that floods and other environmental disasters can raise the risk for spontaneous miscarriages, preterm births and low-birth-weight infants. Doctors say it pays to be prepared.

Getting mental health treatment to inmates who need it requires money and unprecedented collaboration between state and county departments of criminal justice and social services. Is it working?

There’s a lively debate going on in the medical community about physician burnout. Who has it? How bad is it? Is it even real?

Despite improved safety standards over the years, more than 230,000 children under 15 months old were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to infant walkers from 1990 through 2014.

A new approach to helping Alzheimer’s and dementia patients starts with training caregivers, teaching them to respond to their loved ones’ needs with insight and creativity.

Federal officials will allow private Medicare insurance plans to require patients who are candidates for certain expensive drugs to try cheaper drugs first.

Massachusetts planned to exclude expensive drugs that weren’t proven to work better than existing alternatives from its Medicaid plan. Medicaid drug spending had doubled in five years.