health care

A new drug, in the final stages of approval by the FDA, could make it easier to give addicts medication without using pills and risking abuse.

Ten percent of all health care dollars are spent in the last year of life. Those final days are when the toughest, most costly decisions are made, and emotion can easily overrun decision making. Here's one man's story about the choices he made.

You don't often hear about a 79-to-20 vote in the U.S. Senate, but that's exactly what happened last night. The chamber voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax on medical devices.

At medical schools across the country, more than 30,000 aspiring doctors are meeting their matches and finding out where they will spend the next several years as residents.

The AP got its hands on an application for benefits under the health care reform law. It's 15 pages long, and could take anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes to fill out.

How does living with a disease like HIV affect one's financial choices?

One of the Affordable Care Act's fiercest critics, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott has reversed courses and is dropping his opposition to expanding Medicaid.

Perhaps every successful politician promises employment. But looking back at the president's first term, where have the jobs actually come from?

How will health care be transformed by smart devices, continuous patient monitoring, and tele-medicine?

When asked about how the economy directly impacts their lives, most Americans give the obvious answers — and a couple of surprises too.