The WHO’s 2025 Western Pacific agenda focuses on harnessing AI, strengthening hypertension and surgical care, and intensifying tobacco control to advance equitable, technology-driven health systems.

Undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension remains one of the most important preventable causes of heart attack, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and dementia. In 2024, an estimated 1·4 billion people ...

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New polling has found that the majority of voters say health care in the U.S. is unaffordable and are open to a health insurance system that doesn’t tie coverage to employment. Undue Medical Debt, a ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said the ultimate goal of the American health care system is to help increase the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by ...

LAS VEGAS — Executives from some of the nation’s top health systems took to the stage at HLTH 2025 this week to share how their newly minted technology investments are improving operations ranging ...

Community health workers en route to deliver care to people in remote communities. Image: Pivot The idea that building better health care systems can improve and save people’s lives may seem obvious, ...

It is day nine of the government shutdown and Democrats and Republicans continue to blame one another for failing to reach a deal. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) joins Chris Jansing with his reaction to ...

Nationally recognized by the American Society on Aging, Ageism Awareness Day is an opportunity to highlight the existence and impact of ageism on society. Specifically in health care, ageism includes ...

Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States, announced the opening of its global business services (GBS) center in Bonifacio Global City, expanding its ...

Health care is constantly evolving. New technologies, policies, payment models and medical advances all influence how organizations deliver — and how patients receive — care. Hospitals — and the ...