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Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children

“It’s fair to call this a hiring recession or a jobless boom,” said economist Heather Long.

"As we start 2026, I am thinking about how the year ahead will set us up for the decades to come."

Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S.

Edinburg Rep. Monica De La Cruz was the only Texas Republican to break with her party and vote with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans on a key healthcare bill.

The vote marked a rare rebuke by some Republicans of their own leadership.

Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory. Health and illness are our experiments in uncovering meaning, power and inequality, and how it affects all…

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 2 in 10 U.S. adults donated money to a crowdfunding campaign over the last year, with medical expenses proving most common

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas

As the bell struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2026, time ran out on Obamacare subsidies for over 24 million Americans. These subsidies, propped up through various legislative packages over the years, lowered the health insurance costs for Americans on the Obamacare exchange.

"We're on the clock," Moreno said.