Insurance industry profit motives conflict with our need for protection. Public insurance, coupled with proactive risk reduction, can help.

A Birmingham violence-intervention program is expanding scaling street outreach, mediation and community prevention. This comes as Birmingham saw a 42% reduction in homicides in the city comparing ...

Experts say claims of widespread fraud of the 8(a) program are unfounded and the ongoing audits run counter to the goal of expanding the industrial base.

Financial penalties for Medicare readmissions have hit some hospitals harder than they should, for a seemingly unrelated reason: They happen to serve higher percentages of older adults who have chosen ...

An annual report from the American Heart Association shows deaths from heart disease and stroke are down, encouraging news after the rate went up in the early years of the pandemic.

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal ...

Facing right-wing backlash, harm reduction initiatives around Canada have steadily been rolled back. Safer opioid supply (SOS) programs—which provide pharmaceutical-grade ...

The Phoenix City Council approved a controversial new law that puts new restrictions in place about providing medical care in ...

A program working to slow the speed of vessels to reduce deadly whale collisions is now being expanded to the entire ...

Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that ...

Monday, January 20, marks the start of Community Risk Reduction Week in Illinois. It's an effort focused on prevention, ...

When diabetics relying on food assistance programs and pantries have access to nutritious foods and knowledge about healthy ...