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Studies from RAND and the Urban Institute estimate that eliminating subsidies for the federally facilitated Marketplaces would increase premiums between 35% and 47% and cause at least 8.2 million people to drop coverage.

Health insurer Anthem Inc has reached a deal under which Gilead Sciences Inc's hepatitis C drug Harvoni will be the primary treatment for patients infected with the most common strain of the liver-destroying virus.

As retailers struggle to keep up with changing shopping trends, mall operators across the US are looking to fill spaces left empty by the likes of Sears and RadioShack. There is one promising new group of tenants: walk-in medical clinics.

Cost cutting and new initiatives aimed at bringing in more patients will lead to another strong year in 2015 for for-profit hospitals. Meanwhile, their not-for-profit counterparts have been given negative outlooks by credit-rating agencies.

In comments to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Health Subcommittee, ASCO strongly supported the FDA's resolution to rigorously regulate laboratory-developed tests.

The study, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research found that HPV persisted for 12 months or more in men older than 45 years of age, which could increase their susceptibility to developing head and neck cancer.

While nanotechnology has led to countless advancements, a group of Israeli researchers are now raising a flag of caution about its effects on our health. They say exposure to tiny silica-based particles can play a big role in increasing heart attack and stroke risks.

In command and ready for a fight, Republicans ignored a White House veto threat and advanced a bill in Congress that would curb President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul by redefining full-time work as 40 hours a week.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Kaiser Family Foundation have both examined how rising cost-sharing and the complexity of medical billing put patients at a disadvantage when they are most vulnerable. Patients tell the CFPB that bill collectors are calling even when they can't get complete information about the medical bill in question.

The FDA approved on Thursday a new anti-clotting drug to reduce the risk of stroke and dangerous blood clot in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

Research at Heildelberg University is targeting the production of tumor-promoting growth factors in endothelial cells to prevent metastasis. Pre-clinical results using this strategy in a mouse model reduced lung and bone metastases in treated mice and also improved survival over the control chemotherapy-treated animals.

A new collaboration between NCCN and Flatiron Health will provide the opportunity to analyze key quality and outcomes metrics and identify trends and patterns in the care of patients with cancer.

Following FDA approval of a DNA test to detect the HPV virus last year, the medical community is split over which test is more appropriate as a primary screen for cervical cancer in women.

If the Supreme Court invalidates Affordable Care Act subsidies for consumers on the federal exchange, states without their own Marketplaces will be unlikely to stave off "immediate destabilization" of their insurance market, according to experts.

ASCO and AACR called on the FDA to regulate e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems and for more research to occur to find out how long-term use affects health. Leaders of these groups said that e-cigarettes could cause nicotine addiction among teens, and CDC data show rising use of the products among middle- and high-schoolers.

Although HHS recently submitted its proposed rule for stage 3 meaningful use, which doesn't begin until 2017, the program continues to be an issue for providers and hospitals.

The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found nearly 100% survival with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab.

The investigational drug by Sandoz, filgrastim, a biological similar to Amgen's Neupogen, is already approved for use in more than 40 countries worldwide.

HHS has submitted a proposed rule for stage 3 of meaningful use for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, which includes changes to the reporting period, timelines, and structure of the program.

North Carolina is the latest state to express interest in a possible waiver to expand Medicaid. But CMS and President Obama will have to rethink a position taken when Pennsylvania's request for a job training requirement was rejected last year.

The Affordable Care Act is on the move in Western states, with the governors of Utah, Wyoming, and Montana all working to hammer out deals with the Obama administration to expand Medicaid in ways tailored to each state.

By the end of 2014, the uninsured rate among American adults was down to just 12.9% compared with 17.1% when the Affordable Care Act's requirement for Americans to be covered went into effect a year prior.

The Republican Party's strategy to attack the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate by redefining a full-time employee as someone who works 40 hours a week instead of 30 hours could increase dependence on government-provided health insurance.

A new study has identified an increased risk of lung cancer and heart disease in night shift workers, adding to the growing knowledge of health risks associated with those jobs.

A paper published in Science Magazine this month, co-authored by a mathematician and a biologist, suggests that heredity and environmental factors account for only one-third of the risk for developing cancer. A majority of risk is associated with random mutations, a result of mistakes during normal cellular replication.

The percentage of people with high medical costs increased from 2007-2009 to 2011, but the Affordable Care Act's coverage provisions should substantially reduce cost burdens for many people, according to a Commonwealth Fund study.

A study conducted at the humanities and medicine departments at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, found that there's never an ideal time to talk to cancer patients about end-of-life decisions, and most patients are not too disturbed by these discussions.

For years, Harvard's experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.

With evidence that the current flu vaccine may not be effective on the predominant influenza A strain of the virus, hospital admission rates are the primary determinants of the severity of the epidemic that has claimed 6 young lives in the last week of December alone.

Illinois passed a law in 2011 that called for moving 50% of its Medicaid population into managed care by January 1, 2015. The state came very close to meeting that goal, with the expressed mission of achieving the "triple aim" called for in the Affordable Care Act.