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Medicare Advantage covers more than half of seniors, but is it costing taxpayers billions and offering little advantage?

How did a pain pill that is only moderately effective and has murky side effects become America's 5th most prescribed drug?

A shortsighted H-1B fee increase will eliminate the international doctors millions of underserved Americans depend on, deepening healthcare inequality.

When his daughter wanted a tattoo, this dad conducted a 3,000-person study instead—here's what they found.

Tuberculosis kills more people worldwide than AIDS or malaria, even though we've had a cure for 50 years. One doctor learned from village healers in Uganda that you can't cure TB unless you first understand poverty.

The dramatic rise in autism diagnoses over the past 25 years is primarily a result of changes in the definition of the condition and increased screening, rather than the causes claimed by politicians like Trump and RFK Jr.