Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday unveiled a voluntary program to cover GLP-1 drugs for weight-loss and diabetes under Medicaid and Medicare Part D ...

Weight loss can be tricky, especially when approaching it without the support of medication. For India Gants, winner of Season 23 of "America’s Next Top Model," her weight loss journey led her to lose ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is evaluating refinements to its officer promotion system to better align talent and performance with evolving mission requirements. As part of this effort, the Army Medical ...

KIGALI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The United States and Rwanda have signed a five-year deal for the provision of $228 million for the health sector in the East African nation, the State Department said, the ...

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center has launched ACCESS, a model that expands access to technology-supported care for individuals on Original Medicare with obesity, ...

Iowa state officials are seeking up to $1 billion in federal funds to transform rural health care by building a health care model that envisions regional collaboration between providers and rural ...

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are both general internists, distinguished professors of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Older patients are usually sicker and more expensive to treat. But that’s exactly the kind of patients that ArchWell Health — a national network of health clinics that’s expanded ...

Leaders at a South Jersey hospital are planning a big change in treating people with mental and behavioral health crises. Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital staff intends to divert those patients from the ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. The creators of a new artificial intelligence model hope it will enable doctors to predict the likelihood of patients developing ...

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...