Doctors, researchers and patient advocates are cautiously optimistic about the liquid biopsy test that screens for more than 50 types of cancers, however, 62% of people who got positive results in a Lancet study didn't have cancer.

The survey found more than half of Americans could not pay off an unexpected $5,000 health care out-of-pocket expense.

Lawmakers took the first step last week to address longstanding issues with how much Medicare should pay doctors, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed a 3.3% cut to Medicare payments for 2024.

Even before Rite Aid filed bankruptcy a few weeks ago, CVS and Walgreens had already announced store closures over the past two years, all of which will leave millions of consumers without easy access to their medications.

For a monthly fee, GNC Health is offering members low-cost virtual health care for urgent conditions, primary care appointments, mental health, physical therapy, and $0 prescription medications.

Joining Walgreens, CVS Health and Walmart, Amazon is the latest retail pharmacy to experiment with drone delivery of prescriptions, promising dropoff in 60 minutes or less to "narrow the golden window from diagnosis to treatment."

About 6 in 10 employers are uncertain whether the popularity of these medications will lead to changes in their workplace wellbeing programs.

At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers called for additional oversight over private companies offering Medicare Advantage, in response to misleading and predatory advertising targeting seniors during open enrollment.