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Illinois legislators hammering out the state budget could expand affordable health care access to noncitizens ages 19 to 41.

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Self-care benefits us, our patients and the communities we serve. We owe it to ourselves to find hobbies and joyful activities, and to set boundaries with work, social worker Padraic Stanley writes.

Georgia is the latest state to enact a law that allows hospitals to create independent police forces. Critics worry the law enforcement focus could have unintended consequences.

Whether Medicare will or won’t cover certain health care costs may now depend on whether you are in Traditional Medicare or a private insurer’s Medicare Advantage plan.

Many women with postpartum health conditions fear their conflicting feelings about motherhood make them less fit to be a good mother.

Safe staffing laws have worked in California — and can’t pass anywhere else.

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Thousands of doctors and nurses signed on to work in the country’s most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiveness of medical school debt