Health

After Harvey, telemedicine connects doctors to displaced patients

By Leah Samuel, STAT

Getting thousands of Houston-area families to shelters has been a massive humanitarian effort. But the aid doesn't end there: Many of the displaced have chronic medical conditions like asthma or injuries from recent days that need medical attention. Providers of…

This bipartisan health care plan could stabilize markets, two governors say

By Associated Press

The recommendation is part of a compromise plan that's designed to be palatable to both parties. It was endorsed by six other governors.

How to find critical medical care if you're a hurricane survivor

By Laura Santhanam

Health care providers around Houston and across Texas cobble together resources for patients of cancer and other chronic illnesses who have been displaced after Hurricane Harvey.

U.S. clears first 'gene therapy' for tough childhood leukemia

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

Opening a new era in cancer care, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.

Peter Thiel sponsors offshore testing of herpes vaccine, sidestepping U.S. safety rules

By Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News

Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.

An Obamacare win: No 'bare counties' for health insurance next year

By Casey Ross, STAT

An insurer has stepped up to sell individual health insurance policies to the last county in the U.S. without Obamacare coverage in 2018.

Aetna potentially exposed the HIV statuses of thousands of customers

By Erin Mershon, STAT

Thousands of people with HIV received mailed letters from Aetna last month that may have disclosed their HIV status on the envelope.

How do I get the Medicare coverage I want with the lowest out-of-pocket cost?

By Philip Moeller

If your overall objective here is to get the coverage you want with the lowest annual out-of-pocket expense, you can use Medicare's own online tools to get a good idea of available Part D drug plans and Medigap supplement plans.

Chicago's gun violence crisis is also a mental health crisis

By Ryan Connelly Holmes

Thousands of people across the South and West Sides of Chicago experience some form of mental health trauma as a result of gun violence. And as the number of shootings in the city increases, mental health providers are struggling to…