The health care industry is among the most carbon-intensive service sectors in the industrialized world. 1 It is responsible for 4.4–4.6 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and similar ...

More Hispanic and Black adults are becoming less able to access or pay for quality, affordable care. The gap between low-income and high-income adults in being able to access quality health care ...

Health care is mostly run by provinces and territories, but the federal government still has a big role to play. This includes funding and investments in doctors and nurses, explained Dr. Joss ...

Health Care Workers Face More Workplace Violence Than Other Professions. We Need to Act. Nurses treat people during incredibly stressful moments in their lives. Why Nurses Face So Much Violence ...

To pay for these changes, they're in the market to cut government spending by trillions of dollars, and government-assisted health care programs are among their first targets. Earlier this month ...

If you can afford the average cost of health care as you age, you'll be halfway to solving one of the thorniest problems in retirement planning. When it comes to bills, health care isn’t cheap.

It might be easier to make sense of the recent fatal shooting of an insurance CEO, an act with ominous overtones about health care costs and insurance coverage, if any one aspect of health-care ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The mental healthcare industry is on the brink of a transformation, driven by ...

Cook Children’s Health Plan should be allowed to continue to coordinate and manage the care for the children and families who depend on it, writes president and CEO Rick W. Merrill.(iSTOCK ...

Walmart, the largest retailer in the United States, will close all 51 of its health care centers in six states and end virtual health care services, the company said Tuesday. Walmart had made a ...

In Montana, a phlebotomist said fellow health care workers often made "ignorant comments" about the hospital's Native American patients. Both of these accounts surfaced in a report this week from ...

The data showed that the annual suicide rates per 100,000 person-years ranged from 21.4 for health care support workers, to 16 for registered nurses, to 15.6 for health technicians, to 13.1 for ...