The American Medical Association, the largest medical society in the nation, issued a letter Wednesday to Trump administration officials condemning the policy of separating migrant children from their families caught illegally crossing the U.S. border.
Medicaid fraud has risen and bogus payments have more than doubled since Obamacare expanded the government’s chief health insurance program for the poor, topping $37 billion a year, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Senate’s chief watchdog committee.
The Chicago Cubs will have to get by without closer Brandon Morrow for at least a little while.
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers:
The impact to his head was so violent that Nordin Amrabat can't remember the World Cup match at all, even though he was playing in it.
China's decision to stop accepting plastic waste from other countries is causing plastic to pile up around the globe, and wealthy countries must find a way to slow the accumulation of one of the most ubiquitous materials on the planet, a group of scientists said.
Delaware's Supreme Court has upheld the drug dealing and conspiracy convictions of a woman who illegally sold medical marijuana.
A Kansas health system is planning to open a new psychiatric hospital for children who have suicidal thoughts, feelings of violence, depression and substance abuse.
Federal health officials have ordered the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to pay a $4.3 million fine for failing to secure health records stemming from data breaches.
A newer kind of flu vaccine only worked a little bit better in seniors this past winter than traditional shots, the government reported Wednesday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is endorsing the Democratic contender in New Mexico's gubernatorial race.
Huy Chi Tran was awaiting deportation at an immigrant detention center in Arizona when he was found unresponsive. A week later, he was dead.
Authorities say a Connecticut casino mogul has died of heart disease.
Selected editorials from Oregon newspapers:
A group of women's health care providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn a number of Virginia's abortion regulations in light of a landmark 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
As many as 650 people had their lives shortened by a British hospital's institutionalized practice of administering opioids without medical justification between 1989 and 2000, an independent panel concluded Wednesday after years of pressure from family members who demanded answers about the deaths of their loved ones.
Kate Spade New York has announced plans to donate $1 million to support suicide prevention and mental health awareness causes in tribute to the company's late founder.
A pregnant South Dakota woman has been airlifted to a Minneapolis burn unit after her stomach and legs were burned by a grease fire.
Two religion-based organizations have partnered to develop a $60 million senior living community in Dubuque that'll preserve a historic building and allow about 150 Catholic sisters to remain at the location.
A New Hampshire hospital is closer to holding others financially accountable for a traveling medical technician who infected dozens of patients in multiple states with hepatitis C.
Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway have picked well-known author and Harvard professor Dr. Atul Gawande to transform the health care they give their employees.
As the summer campfire season picks up Minnesota Poison Control has a warning about a product used to generate colored flames.
