Health Care

The American health-care system is the most expensive in the world

The move follows a weekend where tens of thousands of the landlocked and homebound hit the sands south of Los Angeles County, where beaches have been closed for weeks.

The Education Department sent a letter to the University of Texas requesting documentation of its dealings with a Chinese lab connected to the coronavirus.

During an event honoring America's seniors at the White House on Thursday, President Trump outlined new measures the administration is taking to protect the elderly population from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless technology is expected to have a significant and positive impact on the health care industry in the near future.

The FDNY’s 4,000 emergency medical workers are reportedly straining to keep up.

The COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out in Wuhan, China, in December has since infected at least 3.2 million people worldwide and killed nearly 229,00.

Many Americans are grappling with finding trusted information they need to stay safe during the country’s worst public health crisis in a century, according to a recent AP-NORC poll finding that 66% trust their doctor or health care provider and 52% said the same about their state or local government.

Rite Aid has set up 25 drive-thru coronavirus testing sites at its stores in eight states, and the CEO says she wishes more people would show up.

Britain's AstraZeneca joined forces with the University of Oxford on Thursday.

COVID-19 contact tracing efforts have increased in 41 states, says NPR.

Individuals who buy the test online can schedule a blood draw at one of Quest's 2,200 patient centers and get results in one or two days.

The virus’s rampage through the New York metro region, from the well-to-do towns along Connecticut’s coastline to the bedroom communities of northern New Jersey and Long Island, offers a counterweight to the notion of the suburbs, with their plentiful open spaces, as safe havens.

Mastercard Inc. President Michael Miebach said contactless transactions increased 40% worldwide in the quarter that ended in March, and he expects those habits to last.

FOX Business' Stuart Varney during his latest "My Take” argues cabin fever is making coronavirus lockdown more difficult and it doesn't help when public officials ignore their own rules.

In the study, 62 percent of patients who received the drug within 10 days of symptoms were discharged from the hospital, compared with 49 percent of those treated late.

Fifteen out of more than 100 employees in two Beaumont locations have tested positive for the highly contagious virus.

Testing in the U.S. will begin once regulators give the go-ahead.

Many commercial and academic laboratories in the U.S. are processing coronavirus diagnostic tests far below their daily capacity.

Top officials in both states chalked up the decisions to "the fog of war."