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After railing at the injustices of U.S. health care for decades, Sen. Bernie Sanders in January became the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. The job gives the health care industry’s biggest Washington nemesis an unprecedented opportunity to shape health care reform in Congress. But…

Just outside St. Louis, in the southern Illinois town Millstadt, there’s a cemetery for children and teenagers, where more and more of those buried were gunshot victims.

Missouri and Montana are the only two states that do not prohibit all drivers from text messaging while driving

A glitch in a law may make it difficult for children from low-income families to get the new RSV vaccine

For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Dr. Corey Siegel was more prepared than most of his peers.

States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the COVID-19 pandemic expire.

MILLSTADT, Ill. — It was a late Friday afternoon when a team of men approached a tiny pink casket. One wiped his brow. Another stepped away to smoke a cigarette. Then, with calloused hands, they gently lowered the child’s body into the ground.

At the height of the pandemic, lavish payments flowed into nursing home companies. Then came the cost-cutting

After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally.

Telehealth use among Medicare beneficiaries grew from less than 1% pre-pandemic to more than 32% in April 2020