Advocacy groups filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administrations efforts to overhaul Medicaid by allowing states to require some beneficiaries to work or pursue jobs.

About 40 employers have trained more than 1,300 people over the last two years in mental health first aid, a relatively new kind of training that is designed to give ordinary people tools to help someone in need.

Americans life expectancy at birth declined for the second year in a row in 2016 as the nation grappled with an opioid crisis, the first time thats happened in more than half a century.

The tax bill eliminates a tax penalty for Americans who dont carry health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act, while leaving the laws other elements intact.

As hospital companies struggle to make money providing medical care, they are turning to the profitable and growing business of collecting debt.

Americans signed up for Obamacare at a brisk pace for a second straight week, an early sign that Republican efforts to repeal or undermine the law earlier this year may have backfired.

Recent research suggests that people who have health insurance from infancy experience benefits later in life.

President Trump, who has repeatedly called the law a failure, has fostered doubt over how the federal government will run the ACAs individual markets.