Most Americans get their health insurance through their jobs, and that coverage continues to increase in cost with the average annual premiums in 2021 exceeding $22,200 for families and $7,700 for individuals — a 4% rise from 2020.
The price
Continue Reading Workers lose more ground as health insurance costs keep creeping up
The coronavirus pandemic continues to kill an average of 1,200 Americans each day and the disease infects more than 76,000 people daily — unwavering numbers that have led public health officials — wary of what the hectic holidays will bring
Continue Reading Pandemic battles focus on boosters for all and more shots for kids
Robert Califf, a cardiologist and President Biden’s “new” nominee to head the federal Food and Drug Administration, is a familiar face around the agency and Washington, D.C.
Califf served as the FDA commissioner before — winning U.S. Senate confirmation
Continue Reading Biden nominates Robert Califf to reprise his Obama-era role as FDA chief
Although the chattering classes may have beat the term infrastructure into a hoary cliché, regular folks may see major benefits over time to their health and well-being from the Biden Administration’s finally passed, bipartisan $1 trillion bill that invests desperately
Continue Reading $1 trillion invested in ‘infrastructure’ can boost U.S. health and well-being
Soaring medical costs crush the finances of far too many patients, as the public was reminded by the release of an annual report on the high toll of cancer-care spending and a surprising congressional reverse aimed at reining in runaway
Continue Reading Patients can’t escape reminders of U.S. health care’s brutal costs
2021 has become a torment for the safety of the nation’s roads, as the country between January and June hit its largest six-month percentage increase in fatalities in the half-century U.S. officials have kept such records.
In the first half
Continue Reading First six months of ’21 set U.S. record for road deaths
When hospitals too often fail to disclose and to adequately deal with their problems, patients and their loved ones suffer. That’s what happened during the coronavirus pandemic, when individuals admitted for other reasons were infected in hospitals and died of
Continue Reading Thousands admitted to hospitals for other reasons ended up with Covid-19
Even as the coronavirus batters parts of the country, notably the Mountain West, public health officials are pointing to key ways in which Americans could safely and effectively further quell the pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of
Continue Reading Kids now can get Covid shots. Will they? And what about the new anti-Covid pills?
Federal regulators have toughened the requirements for surgeons and medical device makers to inform women in detail about rising risks associated with breast implants, which also now will carry the government’s sternest warning — a “black box” label cautioning
Continue Reading Women will receive more disclosures about risks of breast implants
Americans have gotten stark reminders of the nation’s struggles with harmful substances and how the coronavirus pandemic has worsened these problems, with the Biden Administration outlining its strategy to combat the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis and Big Tobacco
Continue Reading Health experts offer anti-drug strategy and fret over cigarette sales spike
