Nursing Home Care Health Center

While not possible to protect all, studies show shots cut deaths, hospital visits

Journalist Gail Sheehy's painful passage through U.S. health system echoes that of many caregivers

Commonwealth Fund says both want to widen availability of health insurance, but by vastly different means

And they spend billions out of pocket for what they do receive, new report shows

Talking to them like children brings out more resistance, study found

Doctors and nurses are taking a new, high-tech approach to prepare for the life-and-death situations they deal with every day.

Author Atul Gawande identifies critical ways that patients and families can take control of improving medical care.