The Alabama IVF ruling has stoked fears that patients and their health care providers might soon be subject to criminal prosecution in cases where a hoped-for birth goes wrong.

This was never about children.

The Republican Party’s “repeal and replace Obamacare” zombie is back, and it’s even more brain-dead than before.

Blood donation is meant to be free. But there’s an enormous exception: plasma.

Three stories of people navigating a new world of restrictions post-Roe

Once the Covid-19 emergency order is lifted, new restrictions proposed by the White House will make it harder for many to access the medications on which they depend.

Don’t let Eli Lilly’s latest P.R. stunt fool you: Private companies shouldn’t be allowed to set prices for these lifesaving drugs in the first place.

The disease is growing exponentially among elders.

Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited.

For-profit hospitals provide inferior care. But they make more money. And now, nonprofits want to hop on the gravy train.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle spent the midterms telling us that more police and prisons will make us safer. Voters didn’t bite—and perhaps they know better.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant make the case for health care revolution.

from Washington and beyond

We’re still seeing the long-term effects of Covid. Acting like the pandemic is over won’t help us address them.

The newest campaign against children’s hospitals is part of a much larger pattern.

The California governor’s shock veto of a bill that would have created safe injection sites is a shameful play for major donors who would fuel a future presidential run, at the expense of his most vulnerable constituents.

In a distinguished government career spanning more than half a century, he expertly steered America through two devastating pandemics. But given how Republicans have maliciously attacked him, why would anyone want to follow in his footsteps?

The administration expects to stop buying vaccines and treatment by year’s end, handing over these responsibilities to for-profit companies that are salivating at the opportunity.

The overwhelming rejection in deep-red Kansas of an anti-abortion referendum suggests that there may be a hidden army of voters out there who are furious about the Dobbs decision.

The Democrats finally have wind in their sails. The Arizona senator can halt the party’s progress with a statement.