Health Care Reform

The technology used by Facebook, Google and Amazon to turn spoken language into text, recognize faces and target advertising could help doctors combat one of the deadliest killers in American hospitals.

The U.S. health-care industry is folding in on itself amid pressure to cut costs and defend against outsiders, and a potential deal between Walgreens and AmerisourceBergen Corp. would take two major pieces off the table.

The pending merger between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc.their grand experimentstands to disrupt current health care models in more ways than one, experts say.

Amazon is aiming at becoming the go-to medical supply house not just for hospitals, but also for outpatient clinics, and it plans to dominate sales from gauze to hip implants.

President Donald Trump's new budget proposal for 2019 could provide enough funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost-sharing reduction subsidy program to make $8.1 billion in outlays in 2019.

A Maryland law, which took effect Jan. 1, mandates that insurers cover vasectomies without requiring patients to pay anything out-of-pocket just as they must do for more than a dozen birth control methods for women.