New Stanford research indicates that having a mom losing a loved one during pregnancy may affect the mental health of the child as he or she grows into adulthood.
A group of researchers are trying to answer the question: Are you more or less likely to die if you own a firearm? Their work was recently featured in the Washington Post.
Even adults who are not considered "high-risk" should be tested to reduce deaths and improve cure rates, new Stanford Health Policy research suggests.
CVS Health recently announced it would buy Aetna, the country’s third-largest health insurance company, for $69 billion -- a deal that could revamp the nation’s …
Most relatively healthy Affordable Care Act plan consumers pay more out-of-pocket than they may have thought based on the rating level — from bronze to …
Paul Wise, MD, a Stanford pediatrician and professor of medicine, recently returned from Iraq where he witnessed what humanitarian health care workers and Iraqi physicians …
Some Americans believe pandemics are health catastrophes contained to the developing world, far across the globe and unlikely to impact them. But Stanford's Michele Barry, MD, …
Sometimes a simple apology can go a long way — even in the doctor-patient relationship. Stanford Health Policy’s Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, has new research …
As the national debate over health-care costs continues, it’s good to learn that one government program appears to be lowering medical expenditures for those Americans …
A leading question in primary care is whether practices can shift towards delivering better preventive and proactive health services. A key barrier to that shift …
Health policy researcher Kathryn McDonald, PhD, recently asked a group of physicians who work with low-income patients in San Francisco what keeps them up at night. …
New legislation introduced last week to could reduce foreign aid by $10 billion. Some of these cuts would affect global health organizations that fight HIV …
While the education gap is virtually nil in the United States, fewer girls in developing countries finish high school. And this results in poor health …
Mike Baiocchi, PhD, grew up in a family of nurses and passionate public health advocates. He says a liberal can-do attitude was baked into his …
End-stage renal disease makes up 7.2 percent of Medicare spending, even though those patients represent less than 1 percent of the Medicare population, according to …
A new study has yielded what might come as a surprise to some: There was a spike in the number of Californians who bought handguns for …
