On Tuesday, President Obama called for expanded research into the Zika virus, which has spread quickly across Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months, causing birth defects in thousands of Brazilian infants.

The Congressional Budget Office has dramatically lowered its projections for enrollment in health care plans on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marketplace.

While telemedicine holds great promise for making health care more accessible and more cost-effective, there are still some interactions that doctors believe should not take place online or over the telephone.

Health insurers are crying foul after a study funded by an insurance trade group found that Medicare Advantage, the private insurance version of Medicare, does not receive nearly the money it should get from the federal government for patients with chronic conditions.

Many plans offered through Healthcare.gov dont cover outpatient surgeries, which account for two-thirds of all surgeries performed in the U.S.

Hospitals that refer more patients to in-patient facilities tend to have higher 30-day readmission rates.

Drug shortages in emergency rooms increased by more than 400 percent between 2001 and 2014, a new study finds.

A new study shows that there is at least one major similarity between the U.S. system and the largely socialized alternatives elsewhere.