Kaiser Health News

Researcher developing device similar to pregnancy test; blood or urine is placed on plastic sheet or in a cassette that shows results.

Improved dental health is a challenge for a program where half of children who were covered before the law took effect hadn't seen a dentist the previous year.

In this year's presidential campaign, health care has taken a back seat. But one issue appears to be breaking through - the rising cost of prescription drugs.

As many as 1.4 million seniors survive a stay in the ICU every year; most go home, with varying degrees of disability.

New research shows race and geography prevent some of the most vulnerable from obtaining effective treatments, including powerful anti-coagulant that can break up the clot causing the stroke.

Many children live in houses with guns, but pediatricians often don't feel comfortable discussing gun safety with parents, even though most parents say they would welcome that conversation, study says.

Entomologists, vector technicians, communications specialists and public health scientists have been part of the Zika teams.

From 2011 to 2015, insurers' payments to hospitals, laboratories, treatment centers and other medical providers for these patients grew from $32 million to $446 million -- a 1,375 percent increase.

Almost $1,000 per procedure examined at the academic medical center, UCSF researchers find.

Consumers Union wants to know why the cost projections submitted by Anthem and Blue Shield are so much higher than some of their competitors and other industry-wide figures.