Health

Donald Trump’s pick for HHS secretary, Rep. Tom Price, traded more than $300,000 in shares of health-related companies in the past four years while advocating legislation that could affect those companies’ stocks.

Cintas Corp. reported a 6.9% increase in earnings from continuing operations for its fiscal second quarter, posting its 13th consecutive quarter of gross margin improvement.

About 6.4 million Americans signed up for health insurance coverage beginning Jan. 1 on healthcare.gov through the extended Dec. 19 open-enrollment deadline, a jump in enrollments.

The Canadian government failed to reach a deal on health care funding during a meeting with regional health and finance ministers on Monday, as rising costs continue to squeeze the country’s single-payer system.

U.S. hospitals are taking aggressive steps to cut pharmaceutical spending. They include minimizing inventories and repackaging costly intravenous medicines into individual doses.

President Barack Obama said the website selling coverage under his signature health law had seen its busiest day ever on Thursday, with 670,000 people using HealthCare.gov to renew or obtain health plans ahead of a year in which Republicans have pledged to begin dismantling the law.

Enough with tweaks; time to be bold.

General Electric is promoting more women to leadership roles from nontraditional assignments, using information technology, health care, marketing and other rotations instead of a historical preference for engineering and industrial duties.

The findings highlight how nuanced and complicated modulating cognition can be, according to the researchers.

A proposal to turn what was once the nation’s largest tuberculosis hospital into a mixed-use development with a focus on healthy living is moving forward on Staten Island.

Columnist Laura Landro offers eight tips in her concluding column on how patients can get the best care and avoid harm in the health-care system.

A poorly understood condition results in placentas that aggressively invade the mother, which can lead to death and preterm birth.

Hospital company Universal Health Services Inc. on Thursday denied conclusions in a recent news report that it exaggerated patient symptoms and filled beds solely for financial gain.

U.S. stocks charged to fresh highs, with major indexes logging their biggest one-day rally since the election.

When it comes to saving for health-care costs in retirement, women need to set aside more—almost 20% more, on average—to cover their medical bills in the final years of their lives, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The Justice Department and proposed merger partners Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. presented a judge Monday with starkly different visions of how the transaction would affect the marketplace.

U.S. health spending grew faster than expected in 2015 as consumers recovered from the economic downturn and the Affordable Care Act’s coverage provisions took hold, according to federal statistics released Friday.

The Great Recession enabled ObamaCare. Now the law’s failure makes reform possible.

U.S. stocks edged higher, as gains in health-care stocks helped offset losses in the energy sector.