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Providing medical care for infections is a major undertaking that demands proactive cooperation and systematic top-down deployment

Assistant Minister for Health Ged Kearney will chair the new National Women's Health Council, which will address the range of poorer health outcomes women experience comparative to men.

Taking action to be evaluated for a penicillin allergy can impact your health, safety and wallet. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10% of the U.S. population reports a penicillin allergy, but less than 1% is allergic after testing. Common penicillins include ampicillin, amoxicillin and Augmentin.

Across the state, California’s hospitals are facing serious challenges — particularly those institutions serving our urban, low-income and historically marginalized communities. Metropolitan anchor hospitals, as they have come to be known, play a vital role in advancing health equity and are disproportionately affected by the problems facing the entire health…

Health care centers from Guangzhou to Shijiazhuang and Beijing are slammed amid surging infections and severe shortages of medical workers

AUSTIN, Texas — LGBTQ youth in Texas experienced suicidal thoughts at higher rates than their peers in large states and had a harder time accessing mental health care, according to a survey by the Trevor Project.

Some Medicare Advantage plans failed to produce any records to justify their payments, government records show

A national poll found that 90% of administrators say there is a growing youth mental health crisis.

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud.