Rising U.S. healthcare costs continue exceeding inflation, creating affordability challenges, delayed medical care, growing debt, and unequal access despite widespread insurance coverage nationwide.

U.S. health coverage challenges persist as policy changes threaten to increase uninsured rates, disproportionately affecting low-income and underserved communities’ access to healthcare services.

Emerging combination therapy using penpulimab, anlotinib, and chemotherapy shows promise for improving pathological response and survival outcomes in resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

The National Prostate Cancer Audit aims to improve prostate cancer care through enhanced outcome tracking, updated clinical guidelines, and better patient support services nationwide.

Emerging selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) offer promising targeted treatment options for early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, potentially improving survival rates and patient quality of life.

A nationwide EMS study found supraglottic airways achieved higher success rates than endotracheal intubation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, supporting faster, more reliable airway management.

Over the past decade, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) device authorizations have shifted from incremental hardware approvals toward a flood of software-driven and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) products that behave more like continuous services than one-time tools.

Medtronic’s Sphere-9 catheter earned FDA Breakthrough status for ventricular tachycardia, combining RF and pulsed-field ablation to improve lesion durability, procedural safety, and recurrence outcomes significantly.

Specialized women’s health primary care practitioners improve retention, continuity, trauma-informed care, and preventive services for women Veterans while supporting expanding VA healthcare access nationwide equitably.

Pharmacy-based methadone treatment expands opioid addiction care by letting patients receive daily methadone at local pharmacies, improving access, convenience, treatment retention, and overdose prevention outcomes.