The new recommendations mean that people ages 6 months and older can get Covid-19 vaccines after shared clinical decision making with a qualified health care provider, a recommendation that keeps ...

During a medical emergency patients may not be able to speak for themselves. That is when families are often left guessing — and sometimes fighting — over who has the right to make critical healthcare ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said that every Nigerian is now legally entitled to compulsory health insurance under the National Health ...

A Catholic health care system in California is being sued for its refusal to perform an abortion on a woman who twice experienced miscarriage, with the plaintiff alleging the hospital's religious ...

Alan Alterisi died in 2018 after state correction health care staff failed to properly diagnose and treat a peptic ulcer, report shows.

No doubt, the primary aim of the NHIA Act is to ensure that every Nigerian and legal resident has access to affordable, quality ...

THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has expanded access to its Z Benefit Package for orthopedic implants, in line with a directive from Pre ...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has said the Federal Government is yet to respond to its directive stopping doctors from taking call duty beyond 24 hours ...

A federal court stopped the administration’s attempt to exclude some immigrant children from the nation’s largest early childhood education program, protecting millions of families while the case ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tours at the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House is keeping its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government ...

Kadisco General Hospital (KGH), one of Ethiopia's leading private healthcare institutions, and MindHYVE.ai™, a U.S.-based pioneer in agentic artificial intelligence (AI), have signed a Memorandum of ...

This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Mel and Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. In the lead up to her son ...